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carousel time elapse
Gaylen set up a time elapse camera above the carousel at Moscone West, so you can see the whole spiel, from setup to party to teardown:
The Carousel at GadgetFest/Google I/O
No one got hurt, though we had about 6 people fall off. The stagehands were super helpful so we got out in record time. Next, Maker Faire!
back when we built things with jets
Before we discovered the wheel, we built things with jets. Here’s a little reminder of those dark ages:
Madagascar Lingo
madagascar squint: welding process perfected at the madagascar institute which eliminates the need for eye protection. This term (as far as i know) was coined by touch. gear Obtainium: free crap (off street, donated) we magically turn into “art”. NotAmerica: anywhere but here Veronica
popesiversary xi: the siege of mada
To mark Popesiversary! it was essential to reproduce the effect of standing around in the cold while dodging fireworks aimed directly at the eyes. We opened fire from the backyard up to the fortified windows of the third floor. The window opened a crack and answered with a steady stream of roman candles. And no, [...]
On VBS.tv’s Motherboard
VBS.tv recently came by and spent the afternoon hanging out at the shop, and dug thru our archive of video footage, and put together a pretty nice little video about us:
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Madagascar Inst. on FaceBook
I set up a Facebook ‘group’ for Mada a month ago. There are 322 members. Note – this is a public group. It’s a great way to disseminate information.
Basement Archeology
We did an amazing dig thru layers of crap in the basement, dug up some old pictures, found old lunches, chucked all sorts of things that everyone agreed should have been chucked many years ago, and saved lots of useful stuff (crazy, right?). New developments: * you can actually see and walk the whole corner [...]
Madagascar Institute finally does something for the children