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My Raygun Rover on German TV

Tom Sepe — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 20:48:16 +0000

The Raygun Rover as well as the Raygun Gothic Rocketship and a bunch of other Bay Area art appears in this German TV Show:

YouTube – Portrait: Robotic Kunst Werkstatt Nimby – arte Tracks vom 24.06.2010.

Click here to view the embedded video.

The Infinitarium – In Progress Timelapse

Tom Sepe — Mon, 17 May 2010 21:48:26 +0000

Here’s my latest: A timelapse video I just edited of The Infinitarium we are building at Big Art Studios in West Oakland. I’m one of six artists leads building 18 giant over-sized plants out of scrap metal. I’m in charge of building five giant willow trees – each tree will have over 1,200 feet of salvaged steel cable! We have a small army of incredible volunteers showing up everyday to learn welding and build BIG ART!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Directing artists Karen Cusolito and Dan Das Mann designed and envisioned the Infinitarium, a massive interactive sculpture garden that will span an acre and will include state-of-the-art lighting controls and user-controlled pyrotechnic flame effects. It will be a larger-than-life magical botanical garden and will travel to many events and festivals, premiering at the Electric Daisy Carnival, Sand By The Ton, Outside Lands Festival, Burning Man, the PDX Bridge Festival and many more. http://theinfinitarium.com

I’m using a hacked Canon S1is digital still camera and a kit-made 7.4v power supply (kit from Adafruit Industries) connected to a 12v deep cycle marine battery and combining photos and video from my iPhone as well as a mini DV video camera.

My Timelapse Camera Rig

Special thanks to Phil “pEEf” Sadow for assistance with setting up the Canon hack and for the 2nd camera.

Start Slide Show with PicLens Lite

Get the Egg

Tom Sepe — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:51:15 +0000

Last week I helped Michael Christian pick up the “Egg” from the Reliance powder coating in San Leandro:

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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 weld seams faster than the grinding of the seams necessary for powdercoating, and as a result obtained a smoother finish. ANother important lesson learned is that there is now a metal-to-metal bondo that contains aluminum – which means you can use it in the powder-coating process!

We then took the egg over to the new NIMBY space in Oakland, which is HUGE! It will be exciting to see NIMBY 2.0 evolve….

The Lumbering Contraption

Tom Sepe — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:52:15 +0000

IMG_3820
Originally uploaded by tomsepe
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 Nick Winterhalter on his Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/winterhalter/sets/72157607016106105/
I also posted a dark and mysterious video on YouTube of last night’s test run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxQ8I4818-w
Come on out this Sunday Sept 28th to us pit our invention against the other fabulous railcars at the Santa Rosa Handcar Regatta: http://handcar-regatta.com/

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Railwheel Hijinks 2

Tom Sepe — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:52:07 +0000

Railwheel Hijinks 2
Video Originally uploaded by nck wntrhltr

Yes we’re building a railcar – hand powered rail car. Actually ts more of a rail wheel – You can see pictures of in progress here