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19:49:35 04/24/11
CNN/Motherboard Video!
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The folks over at Motherboard remade this video and it's basically just me talking. It was recorded two years ago and it's nice to see that I'm still the same person, pretty much saying the same things now as I did then! Yay for personal continuity!
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15:11:51 04/16/11
Fabricate 2011
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I'm at Fabricate 2001, a conference about fabrication, design, and architecture. It's been great to meet the architecture community and chat. I don't have any architecture background, so it's a cultural anthropology lesson for me as well. Here are my takeaway points. I may add more later.
* Architects are like philosophers and are capable of thinking about things from a very extrapolated and conceptual level.
* The two main buzzwords in the architectural fabrication community here are parametric and optimisation.
* There is a new generation of architects that are either in school or recently graduated that are obsessed with low cost or free tools and materials and automation. Arduinos got mentioned many times. Open source tools, software, and infrastructure is a small but growing voice in architecture. The internet/sharing culture is just beginning to really arrive to the field and is beginning to unlock the black boxes of old boy networks and proprietary software/hardware. It seems like there were lots of people who were experimenting with students to explore automated manufacturing techniques on a scale that could bring design and manufacturing to the masses.
* This crowd loves orange robotic arms. Seriously, 4 or 5 presentations had pictures of them in their talks. Also, there was an awesome robotic arm in the lobby. While this technology is 30 years old, they are being used in interesting ways to collaborate with human friends to make interesting things. Where can I get a big orange robotic arm? Am I going to have to make my own? (probably)
* 3D printing is gaining traction and there are a lot of people who want to get involved at the gcode level to explore the material at the molecule level. I gave out lots of MakerBotted presents!
I made a lot of new friends and enjoyed learning about the state of technology and fabrication in the architectural field, thanks to the organizers and presenters for a wonderful conference!
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15:53:29 08/03/10
Detroit with Jeff Sturges
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I was in Detroit for Maker Faire and my buddy Jeff Sturges gave me a tour of Detroit. There is creativity, resourcefulness and great things happening. There's also poverty, 40% unemployment and 20% of the folks there graduate high school. It's a place ripe for change and the people who are there building up infrastructure for awesome are doing some really interesting things like starting farms on abandoned city blocks.
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03:32:41 05/30/10
Talk at Columbia
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The nice folks at Columbia University had me come up and chat with them about the future of manufacturing and then they edited my talk down to just a few minutes.
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00:11:45 03/21/10
Have I mentioned that I love NYC?
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The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo .
I'm from Seattle which has in it's favor the color green and family and good friends. I lived in or near Seattle for nearly 21 years. It's a great place.
But now I love New York. It's been so good to me. I moved here to get in the action and it's just a wonderful place full of people who do things. I've made great friends, started a business with a few of them and I get to be here where I believe the most exciting adventures are to be had.
Before i moved here, I was scared of it in the same way I am scared of steam engines. There is potential and it takes time to get to know how it all works. I spent 3 weeks going the wrong way on subways and planning a lot to just go out and see a movie and figure out how to navigate to a bar called burp castle to connect up with the movers and shakers.
This little movie makes me happy because it captures the action of New York. People are here to get stuff done and it's expensive and it can be hard and the only way you'll make it is if you give all of yourself and if you do, NYC gives back.
Come visit and just walk around. Go see art. Ask directions on the street from strangers. Walk over bridges. Eat food from streetcarts. Get to high places. Act like you're on your way to the most important meeting of your life and you'll feel the energy of the streets. If you like it, find a way to stay or find a way to return here when you can. NYC will remind you that you are a powerful creature walking this earth and that humans like you can make amazing things happen.
04/16/11
