• Timothy Childs – Technology and Chocolate (web)
• Mark Pauline – Survival Research Labs (web)
• Michael Ang (mang) – Light, Attraction and Emotion (web)
• (Opendork) Jacob Appelbaum – Noisebridge (web)

Other Opendorks were taped, but not streamed.
More info on the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.

The video is up on Vimeo.

More info at the sites for Jon Sarriugarte, Form and Reform (the venue), & the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.

The video’s at Vimeo, along with the video of the Tesla coil demonstration that followed.

Greg Leyh has more information at the Nevada Lightning Laboratory & Lightning on Demand sites.

The Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting has more media, including more video of the coil demonstration.

Video available at vimeo.

You can follow him on Twitter – @ggdm.

Bruce Damer
The EvoGrid
2009-04-08
Dorkbot-SF
At The Gallery with No Name

More info at (primarily) damer.com though digitalspace.com & evogrid.org & b612foundation.org & biota.org are closely related.

dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/200904/

The video’s on Google Video.

More info:
Cornfield Electronics
the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting
PariSoMa

It’s just under 28 minutes long.
Video posted at Google Video & also Vimeo (as an experiment).

I posted the video over on Google video, & here’s the audio as an mp3.

Edit: The Dorkbot fundraiser continues, & there’s a blog tracking Todd Blair’s recovery.

The presentations at this meeting were very visual: first, a map of neighborhoods, drawn from Craigslist postings; second, software to visualize audio by frequency & the slight audio delays between ears.

However, as far as I know, no good copies of the streaming video for that night were saved. I would love to be mistaken. I’d almost suggest playing along with the map & audio software as you listen to this. The audio’s posted in decent-quality audio, so the software might actually have enough info to work.

Setting up & cleaning up this recording was a learning experience: I didn’t record the audience very well, & my recorder dropped a couple of minutes in a Q&A, which included a phone call from the internet to ask a question. I recovered audience commentary to the best of my ability, with limited materials; I lucked out that I could get the audience audible at all.

I left in the daughter of Jonathan Moore, the MC, just because I got a kick out of her happily wandering in, babbling for a bit, & then being given the controls of a flamethrower.

Anyway. Here’s the audio: 95 minutes, 90 meg. I encoded these at 128kbps because stereo music is involved.

• mp3
• aac

For more information, see the Dorkbot SF page on this meeting.
Chapter times for the mp3; these are embedded in the aac already.

• 0:00:00 – Matt Chisholm and Ross Cohen, The Neighborhood Project
• 0:27:23 – Greg Hazel, Incoherence
• 1:06:48 – Opendork
• 1:07:55 – Hallie McConlough, Encounter Studio
• 1:09:29 – Bjoern Harman, Color Field Camera
• 1:23:43 – Simone Davalos, El Espanol Borracho
• 1:30:02 – animatronic donation box
• 1:31:25 – V. Vale – RE/Search Pranks 2

Just want to listen to it? It’s 68 minutes, & 34 meg.

• mp3
• aac / m4b – this has the times listed below marked as chapters.

The contents:

• Intro: This was a cold start – in mid-sentence – because the recording hardware only started reluctantly.
• 15:30 – Ivan Marusic Klif
• 30:15 – Magdalena Pederin
• 36:00 – Marcell Mars – Geek Culture, see mama.mi2.hr
• 60:00 – upcoming at Device Art, say, Thursday & Saturday.

For more information: blasthaus.com – kontejner.org -
dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf