The Steampunk Tree House finally has a home!

Yes! The Steampunk Treehouse, a large interactive sculpture I helped to build, has finally found a home!

We’re going to be installing the Tree House permanently at Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware.

The Steampunk Tree House was first conceived in 2006 as a collaborative project with Kinetic Steam Works. This 25,000 pound interactive and immersive sculptural [...]

Get the Egg

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 [...]

The Lumbering Contraption

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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 [...]

Railwheel Hijinks 2

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