Snail at Oakland Art Murmur
Zolie and her Cousin Stellan shooting fire from the Golden Mean Snail car.
Great story at the East Bay Monthly
Golden Mean on the History Channel Nov 28th 2011
Last Spring we shot an episode of Modern Marvels called Weird Machines for the History Channel. I features both The Golden Mean Giant Iron Snail Car and our restored 1920′s Hogan Tesla Coil and is set to air Nov 28th, 2011.
Check your local listings for air times.
Railroad Revival Tour… Oakland
The Railroad Revival Tour with Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Mumford & Sons, and Old Crow Medicine Show, started its first journey last Thursday with a concert in our corner of West Oakland. The Golden Mean and the crew got a chance to perform and see the show and what a hoot it was!
Great to meet some of the band members and play with the kids. We all throughly enjoyed a relaxing show with a great promotion company, music crew and audience. Great day!
Wish we could have seen more of this band. Their music has been the sound track to the Snail car and the Front Porch for the last 2 years! Next time this tour happens they need to hook up a few flat beds to the train for us to take our toys on!
Happy Birthday Lydia! Wish I was still 22!
Zolie Kyrsten & I on the Golden Mean enjoying a beautiful sunset over San Francisco bay from the lower bottoms of West Oakland
Beyond Wonderland 2011
Beyond Wonderland 2011
Great to be back for our 3rd show with Insomniac! Lots of familiar faces and a warm welcome for the snail and crew! This year we brought our new remote fired flame ball and let the crowd light up the night sky to warm the rest of us. I always enjoy seeing people smile when they realize they just made that huge fireball. Meet up with some great DJ’s and even got to hang out with Paris Hilton!
John in his steampunk finest letting the girls shoot fire balls.
Each one of these fire balls shoots a different shape. Disk, ball and a ring.
The die hard fans waited in line to get a turn at shooting the fire from the snail. Lots of smiles.
IDEO Party
IDEO Holiday Party in SF 2011
The Boiler Bar crew got a chance to show off our toys and bars at IDEO party this weekend. Great event and lots of great people. So fun to hang out with such creative people. Great costumes, and the sets they made for us were over the top! Events like these remind me why I moved to the bay area and stayed! Hope to do more with the people I met last night.
Kyrsten and Emily
You don’t have a giant Iron snail in your living room?
KSW video from last weekend
Here is a great video from last weekends KSW event
Handicraft Magazine Article “Steel Dreams”
Handicraft Magazine out of China did a story about my work.
Wish I could read it. Love the coloration they did to my pictures.
Duncan/Channon 20th Anniversary
Duncan/Channon 20th Anniversary
Big thanks to D/C for letting us warm the the smiles from everyone who shot fire from a Giant Iron Snail!
I just love to see full grown adults turn 10years old again in seconds!
See she is 10 again!
Andy Berkenfield aglow with fire!
Bob Duncan introducing Terry Adams Rock n Roll Quartet
Terry Adams Rock n Roll Quartet
I loved watching his hands mash the keys with so much energy you’d think only disjointed noise could come from what I saw, but my ears could hear wondrous music. I was mesmerized!
Extra Action Marching Band
You have to love the drill team!
Golden Mean “contribute very little to society at large”
Vice wrote a article about Burning Man.
HIPPIES IN THE DESERT
26.10.2010
Last month, for some reason, Vito Fun decided to make a pilgrimage to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada to mingle with people who eschew contemporary hygiene practices, refer to smoking weed as “blazing,” and generally contribute very little to society at large. Somehow, Vito was able to get some nice photos out of the whole affair.
Photos by Vito Fun
Read the rest at Vice Magazine: Vice Magazine | Event & Party Photos
http://www.viceland.com/blogs/photos/2010/10/26/hippies-in-the-desert/
Haley Duke I was more offended by their boldness of, ‘and generally contribute very little to society at large.’ WTF do vicers do that’s so damn honorable?
Hoping to run into them soon.
Conception the Opening
Conception
This is the drawing we sent into Burning Man DMV before we started on the car.
The local fire department got to pull the reigns first!
Zolie and Karydis
