John Edgar Park, one pixel at a time
gitaneDirty 003, originally uploaded by JohnEdgarPark.
I just picked up this old bike for $40. It’s an entry level French road bike from the 70s. I’m planning to turn it into a minimalist single speed (and part time fixie, by using a “flip-flop” hub).
Here’s a link about it’s history on the Gitane site.
The WDSFD logo is excellent. Unfortunately, whenever I see one of these trucks it means the field behind the animation building is on fire.
Our beloved Burbank neighborhood got a writeup in today’s LA Times. There’s also a slide show accompanying the article. These are some of the photos, by Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times. From the article:
ANTIQUE STORES and thrift shops rule Magnolia Boulevard — the main artery of Burbank’s Magnolia Park neighborhood — but that doesn’t mean the area is stuck in a dusty past. Founded in 1923, the quarter roughly bounded by Hollywood Way on the west and Buena Vista Street on the east still has Eisenhower-era storefronts, ranch-style homes dating to the 1940s and a small-town feel unblemished by chains and big-box stores. Yet Magnolia Park has found a way to parlay this into retro cool without sacrificing its independent spirit. Idiosyncratic boutiques and restaurants with a focus on nostalgic Americana are making the old new again. It might not be the next Silver Lake, but a new outpost of that area’s trendy Vietnamese eatery, Gingergrass, is coming soon, another step toward making Magnolia Park a gathering spot for the iPhone-and-Dwell-magazine crowd.
Coco’s poster, originally uploaded by JohnEdgarPark.
I visited with Mister Jalopy yesterday at his command center and came away with a few pearls of wisdom and this beautiful Coco’s Variety poster.
There was an art gallery at SIGGRAPH 2008 that contained this incredible worm-hole looking piece created entirely out of zip ties. Does anyone know who the artist is?
Quint from AICN visited to see some animation dailies in progress and has a nice write-up here.
He’s included a Rhino shot from boards, to layout, animation, and finally lighting. Here they are:
Readers of Make should already be familiar with Mister Jalopy. Now readers of the New York Times can be too! There’s an editorial about him and the Maker Movement in the Opinion section.
VW tools, originally uploaded by JohnEdgarPark.
The kids and I ran across this beautiful tool kit at the Burbank Be-boppin’ in the Park Vintage Car Show and Street Festival today.
electronumismatic interrogator, originally uploaded by todbot.
Todbot whipped up this prototype on his laser cutter for a project we’re working on. Beautiful!
It houses an Arduino microcontroller and a small panel meter gutted from a Radio Shack battery tester. When I saw it it still smelled of burned wood.
These are some gorgeous looking prototyping modules from Machinecollective.org. They are meant for building physical computing interfaces, such as music control surfaces within a sturdy, attractive case. They are modular (I love modular!), can have customized faceplates, and snap together in different configurations.
The site is doing a public beta right now and should be selling modules in September.
I’d love to get some to play with for my ongoing CG character animation interface project. What would you build?
