Courtesy of 8Ball of Space Cowboys and the most awesome Unimog ever ( Read more... )

My ignitors work. This is 2πr, a fire arts project that we took to burning man last year with some amount of it working. Last year the ignition system consisted of two blowtorch heads per effect (16 total). This year I made the Juniper system. It is so much more solid ( Read more... )

So I woke up late after being up WAAAY too late watching the meteor shower up near Santa Rosa in Marin, and go to groggily get a shower. There was a huge ring of short human hairs around the tub/shower thing. Gross, but okey, I can wash that out with the showerhead ( Read more... )

So I've begun preliminary work on a fire toy for myself. Actually, I'll probably never use it ( Read more... )

Halloweenie costume ideas! I'm totally not coming up with anything good. Anyone got any ideas?

And cater to my every desire.

Tom Savini? Check
Michael Biehn? Check
Strippers? Check
Stripper with a gun for a leg? Check
Hot half naked girls? Check
Dude with a coat full of Macheties? Check
Gatling gun mounted on a chopper? Check

I'm all warm and fuzzy on the inside... but that could be the drugs.

I am torn with energy. I arrived back from Burning Man to find a letter from Sierra at Tahoe saying they want to hire me back, plus autum has struck the bay area with a vengence ( Read more... )

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So it's been busy. I've sortof got a job, and I'm totally in over my head making "flame effects" for Interpertive Arson's projects. Somehow, about mid July, I met a bunch of cool people, and joined their crew. Two weeks later, I was operating the machine slightly. Two weeks after that, I was building parts for it. Now I'm almost a project lead on ( Read more... )

The Tesla roadster:

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