We have a lot planned for February! The calendar is here, and I promise we'll quit moving it one of these days. Brief descriptions and links below:

Saturday, 2 pm: Joshua will be giving a talk about the Scratch programming language, a visual language designed to teach kids about programming. We'll also be around before and maybe after, starting at 11, to work on improving the space.

Wednesday the 10th, 7 pm: Show and Tell. Bring your projects, show them off, ask for help if you're stuck.

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While I was out in Seattle I got to know a fellow named Noah Beasley. I've known Noah online for a while and ran into him oh so briefly at Maker Faire, but the moment I stepped into his place I knew that we would hit it off because there was an 80% finished RepRap machine sitting on his work table!

Noah is an industrial designer who has begun to turn his skills to the production of jewelery and art.  One of the really neat things that Noah is pursuing is the use of 3D metal printing for the creation of fine jewelery and he's beginning to offer some of these pieces for sale now on Etsy:

Though these earrings may resemble an xenomorphic sea creature, we can neither confirm nor deny that they were modeled after any organism living, dead, or bearing any blood relation to our board of directors.

This item is made of 3D printed, bronze infused stainless steel, and so has been lovingly crafted by robots. 

[More are now available and I've updated the link above. - Jake]

Those masterful mavens of music promotion,
Bulloff and Brugh Present:

WAYFARERS OF THE GYPSY MANSION - a musical bazaar of sorts
with HUMANWINE, THE BLACKBIRD ORCHESTRA, NATHANIEL JOHNSTONE,
TOY BOX TRIO, MEISCE, FINN VON CLARET, and DJ Q.

Sunday, May 10, 2009 3 pm to 10 pm
The Little Red Studio
750 Harrison Street, Seattle, WA
ALL-AGES, $15 donation

Wearables, craftables, and edibles provided by a plethora of local and regional artisans. We will take a dinner break (with DJ) at 6:30 pm - please bring your own sack meal, a picnic to share, or food can be acquired from two of our vendors. Vegan options available. Adult beverages can be purchased by 21+ individuals.

Willow and Libby are justifiably excited about bringing HUMANWINE to Seattle! Friends from Sock Dreams will also be arriving from Portland to vend excellent foot/legwear.

Larger poster is here. Leave a comment here if you’d like to help out at the event or hang flyers–Libby has an 11×17 hi-res PDF in the wings for print-yr-own. Spread the word. All are welcome.

These are the times, my friends. And these are the days. Where the world becomes malleable, palpable. When novelty and genius are within our reach. We are cautioned against being passionate about these things by tales of progress turned to greed and of technology turning on us. And yet, the golden light is just right, the clocks are synchronizing, the stars are in alignment.

This is what we celebrate tonight. We celebrate these transient times, with these transient artists.

- c. lantz

[You may remember HUMANWINE from Make:TV Episode 103 which you can view after the cut - just skip ahead to 7:50, no need to sit through any of that other guy, again. This looks to be an absolutely AMAZING event and I desperately wish I could be there! - Jake]

Back from a morning of shopping in Seattle.  Got Hungarian Paprika, Madras Curry, Bacon Band-aids and a pair of vintage drafting sets at the Seattle Antique Market.  This town is really growing on me!