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Hey Friends,
Just a quick update to tell you where I’m at
After moving back to the Bay Area for six months… I’m about to mix it up again… where to? I’m not exactly sure!
We had some great success and challenges with the documentary film project – Andrea and I met up in Northern India last year [...]

Who doesn’t want indoor air quality? Ok, well I suppose if you live in the jungle or somewhere in the Kootenays, but even still, and especially during the winter-time with all the doors and windows closed up…. you’ll need just three species… but minimum of 11 plants:

Kamal Meattle used three just three indoor plant species [...]

Researchers may have found a better, cheaper alternative to Silicon for photovoltaic cells; Iron Pyrite or Fool’s Gold! It is being researched as a super absorber PV solar energy, and has the distinct advantage of being far more abundant and inexpensive, as detailed in the article release today, excerpted below:
02.17.2009 – Cheaper materials could be [...]

Last week I helped Michael Christian pick up the “Egg” from the Reliance powder coating in San Leandro
Unfortunately they couldn’t fit the sculpture into the powder coating oven and had to paint it by hand. This was less than ideal for a number of reasons – mostly, Michael said, because he could have bondo-ed the [...]

This is a great presentation by Professor Rushkoff which really breaks down and explains some of our basic assumptions about the economy and capitalism, explaining a bit of history to help us understand the current “financial markets crisis” as well as clarifying how we have new technologies that essentially undermine our concept of outdated economies.
Ofcom [...]

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I’m pulling my steampunk motorbike the “Whirlygig Emoto” out of the garage this morning and taking her to Treasure Island where local NBC news is going to film a little segment about my bike and the Steampunk genre in general….
guess I should brush my teeth.

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The Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea
These photos by Todd Seelie are stunning.
One of the boats was refurbished here in Oakland by Kinetic Steam Works.

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WE’RE ALL READY TO GO FOR SUNDAY!!!
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We’ve been making some great progress on the Lumbering Contraption. We’ve only got a few more days to finish before bringing her out to Santa Rosa for the Handcar Regatta.
You can see Pictures of her in progress on my Flickr page,
http://flickr.com/photos/tomsepe/sets/72157607076970947/
\as well as some wonderfull photos and a bit of video by [...]

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Yeah! We finally got the boat out of the harbor. We don’t have an outboard motor (we’re trying to fix it) So Jeremey brought out his jetski incase we needed a tow. Here’s some more photos taken by Bena.
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