ACTLab and students...view toward control room
"Containment", an actlab interactive student performane
Actlabbie undergraduate students in the "Soundscapes" class playing a musical instrument they built out of bicycle parts
Gesture-operated musical instrument and musicians during final presentations in actlab class "Soundscapes"
Acting out the theoretical concept of "writing on the body"
"PGP" or the "Public Genitals Project" -- people all over the world send images of their genitalia to the actlab, where the images are distorted according to the frequency of occurrence of the words "sex" and "violence" on selected media websites such as MSNBC and CNN, then narrowcast to the screen worn by the model, who walks around Austin. The more sex and violence, the further from reality the images appear.
Austin sunset over a parking lot
Happy labbies in actlab class "Taking It To The Street: Performance and Politics/thePolitics of Performance"
More labbies at work
Somewhat less than half the actlab, but showing part of the obligatory computer farm;-)
A spring event called "Austin Flug Tag" in which people build things they think will fly, and then get in them and "fly" off a ramp into Town Lake. Notice that the person who built this hang glider put supporting wires on the top but none on the bottom...of course, the instant he jumped off the platform, the glider folded in half and plunged to its doom into the water.
This is a supposedly aerodynamic flying model of a Mexican sombrero or hat five meters across, miraculously suspended in the air in the instant before it plunged into the waters of Austin's Town Lake. That's a human riding in the center, headed toward his doom.
The Mexican sombrero and pilot a few seconds later.
Our living room (this is nearly all there is to the house...)
A dessert hangout near our home
Cynbe in our favorite swimming hole on a stream with the quintessentially Texan name of Cow Creek.
Sandy in the same swimming hole. Notice our Volvo V70R in the background -- the Texans' car of choice ;-) Yee-haaaw!
A case mod Sandy just completed for Cynbe. In our family Cynbe is the software wonk, Sandy is the hardware wonk...