over at the beautiful pointless museum there is a truly excellent photo post of scans from the usborne book of the future: a trip into the year 2000 and beyond. when you have an art book published in 1979 that is broken down into three sections which are titled Part1: Robots, Part 2: Future Cities, and Part 3: Star Travel, complete sci-fi awesomeness and insane galactic speculation is bound to happen. page 44 talks about instant electronic voting. page 58 colonizing venus. page 70 shows commuting by rocket pack. powerful stuff in there, all speculating on the year 2000 too! yar!
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the super fun and super exciting maker faire is fast approaching! how fast? well, the maker faire is this weekend! saturday may 3rd and sunday may 4th at the san mateo county fairgrounds (map)! the maker faire is a metric ton of fun! you should definitely go! here are some pics from 2007’s makers faire to entice you. see you there!
the 2nd annual maker faire is going on this weekend. saturday, may, 19th from 10am to 6pm and sunday, may 20th, from 10am to 5pm. happening at the san mateo fairgounds. here’s a link with directions to the fairgrounds and here’s a pdf link of a map of the makers faire. am i going? hells yeah! lots to see! just check out the schedule! i am definitely going to check out chicken john’s woodgas pickup truck, the arts, the crafts, the mad science & scientists, hacks, mods, robots, solar inventions, tiny houses, and did somebody say sock monkey madness? yes they did. dammit - why aren’t you going?
UPDATE:
wired has a great maker faire 2007 preview gallery to get you in the mood.
though it’s been out for a while, take some time to check out this great & expressive CG animated short called burning safari. well worth a viewing, maybe several. created by french animation school students vincent aupetit, jeanne irzenski, maxime maleo, florent de la talle, aurélien predal, and claude-william trebutien.
no, wait - the robots are here. soon to be everywhere. no, wait - they are everywhere. from the monkey using brain signals to control a robotic arm to crazy robot exoskeletons (some big and some bigger). robots are on the rise. it’s crazy all the robot news and videos circulating these days. like the ’soft and cuddly’ RI-MAN robot cradling a human in it’s arms? or that freakish robot pack mule a.k.a. big dog? whenever i see these video clips, i have this hunch i’m seeing future military equipment in early developement. scary. like when i see this cute ‘the power of dreams’ ad for Honda’s Asimo robot running & playing with kids, i picture Asimo with m16s strapped to his arms and the kids are screaming and hiding for their lives instead of laughing and playing. but hey - that’s just me. and why does asimo move like a human that has to go to the bathroom really really bad? odd. for video clips, there’s a robot fish, that robot pack mule, dancing robots, robot ballet, robots that transform into little cars, robots that play the flute, robots that conduct a symphony, ‘life like’ human robots (some that look like nagel prints), and humans that move amazingly like robots. robots robots robots. in fact, i can hear one climbing up the side of my house right now. yikes. gotta go!