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blue + green ball - another benefit for todd blair

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:58:52 GMT

does anyone still log on to tribe? heh. well in case people have not yet left the building... come out DEC 1 - there'll be some SRL things for auction like a SNEAKY SOLDIER! yes your very own -will include instructions on how to program/run it!

more info here: http://srl.org/shows/events/todd/

keep checking as we're still updating as more info comes in!

Saturday, December 1, 2007
8:00 PM - 1:00AM

SomArts Cultural Center
934 Brannan
San Francisco, California 94103

A ball celebrating decadence benefitting Todd Blair who suffered severe head injury after the last SRL show in Amsterdam. He has a long road of medical bills, living and rehab expenses. Todd's SRL, CCA, and other communities join forces presenting an evening of entertainment, bazaar, silent and live auction of many fine art, kinetic sculpture, peoples' highly coveted skills, etc.

Cash bar + Food from Foodhacker Marc Powell and Crew
Hot dogs steamed by Neverwas Steam Car!

Art auction with pieces from: Stelarc, SRL, Lynn Hershman, Eduardo Kac, and more

Collectibles + Services for sale/auction:
Make: magazine collectors' set
Neverwas Steam Car at your next party
Sewing Coaching from Melanie Miguel
Welding class from Kal Spelletich
more...

Holiday Shopping Craft and Electronics Bazaar

DJ Vordo + Joan Jeanrenaud (of Kronos Quartet)
Gibson Pearl Belly Dancers, Kristen, Kyrsten Mate
More bellydancing by Janice Solimeno and her girls
Flaming Lotus Girls
SWARM
Extra Action Marching Band
Flaming Art Bars from the makers of Alpha Fox
more...

See the website for more details and updates:
http://srl.org/shows/events/todd/

Track Todd's progress on his recovery blog updated daily by his love Alexandra from Amsterdam:
http://toddblair.wordpress.com/

$10 donation

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beneift for todd blair @ dorkbotSF wed night 0ct 10

.zegnatronicalled — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:32:13 GMT

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
7:30 PM

Kyle Minor Design Studio
Pier 33 Embarcadero @ Bay
San Francisco, California
http://kyleminordesign.com

DORKBOT: TODD BLAIR FUNDRAISER
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf

It's dorkbot time again. However, this is a very special dorkbot where 100% of the proceeds will go directly to support our friend and long-time dorkbot supporter, Todd Blair. Todd a 15+ year veteran of SRL as well as collaborator with Tim North, Chico McMurtrie, Lynn Hershman, and countless other visionaries, suffered serious head trauma in an unfortunate accident in Amsterdam after the recent SRL performance there for Robodock. He remains in a coma and his injuries are severe. Due to the generous donations of Kyle Minor, Eric Paulos, dorkbotSF, many SRL members, and our speakers, we are able to pass on all of the proceeds from this dorkbot to the family of Todd Blair for his recovery efforts which are expected to be quite substantial.

Please join us in celebrating Todd's recovery in this special dorkbotSF event.

Speakers:
Ken Goldberg - Robots As Environmentalists: Searching for the Ivory Billed Woodpecker using Robotic Observatories for Natural Environments
http://www.c-o-n-e.org

Eric Paulos - Citizen Science
http://www.paulos.net

Steven Lassovszky - Airplane GPS/Telemetry
http://loc-nar.com

Joe Grand
http://grandideastudios.com
http://www.lopht.com/

Mark Pauline
http://srl.org

monochrom
http://monochrom.at

AUCTION with auction master Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom
(list to be posted on the dorkbot site soon)

CASH BAR

Snacks catered by Marc Powell ( http://foodhacking.com )

Gifts for donations over $10 while supplies last

DONATION: $10

http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf

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some bad news

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:37:51 GMT

but hopefully the outcome will be good

http://srl.org

good of boingboing and laughingsquid to spread the word as todd and alex will be needing some financial support very soon:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/25/srl-crew-member-inju.html

http://laughingsquid.com/todd-blair-injured-after-srl-robodock-show-in-amsterdam/

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Old Mark Pauline performance video

alora — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:26:12 GMT

I happily stumbled upon this on YouTube and was delighed to see it.
It's just.... interesting.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWL08XXVFCQ

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SRL on cover of this week's Amsterdam Weekly

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 15:49:17 GMT

mark pauline is interviewed and admits to a few pranks...

http://srl.org/shows/robodock/aw.html

the show is tomorrow! around 3pm our time.

as always new info here: http://srl.org/shows/robodock

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SRL in Europe

Shooter-666 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:24:01 GMT

I heard SRL is in Europe. Anyone know what's up?

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The Shipyard drama

kimric — Sat, 12 May 2007 21:21:09 GMT

http://www.ktvu.com/video/13307846/index.html?source=

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A Complete Mastery of Sinister Forces Employed With Callous Disregard To Produce Catastropic Changes In The Natural Order of Events

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 04:13:09 GMT

Long show title from Mark! Nice to see he's into it and thinking about it before the show actually starts :) I think this is a first in years!
He's also making a poster for this but for now here are some images evocative of what the theme is shaping up to be:

http://srl.org/shows/robodock/sinister.jpg

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off to amsterdamn

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 22:09:03 GMT

may as well poke the tribe, http://srl.org/shows/robodock/

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new SRL video

.zegnatronicalled — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:07:10 GMT

watch the SRL site for more info on when/where we'll be showing video from last year's ghostly scenes show. it's an amazing edit where the audience is immersed within a 16 channel audio recording, putting them into the middle of the performance, while 10 10” screens surround them with a multi-camera, multi-screen edited video. By far the most accurate reproduction of an SRL show, as well as an experience impossible to have live.

see http://srl.org/shows/sanjose/video.jpg

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maker faire

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:33:03 GMT

so mark's bringing a few machines down to the maker faire this year. spose we'll post details soon as they firm up!

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mass exodus

spy — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:32:55 GMT

people are fleeing the bay area. it seems like portland is the next spot. anybody thinking of moving?

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SRLish dorkbot

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 00:03:50 GMT

this one should have a good SRL turnout.

aside from this being my thing, we have Greg Leyh speaking, Michael Shiloh will be guest-MCing, new crew member Jonathan Moore will be bringing his robot, bartender to SRL pete bartending, AND Mark, Amy, and Jake will be popping in too! See http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/

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Fantastic Show

dav_coleman — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:04:54 GMT

Best one I've seen since Austin! So many new machines!

Congratulations to everyone, well done.

I took a few low-quality videos with my camera:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2YYKhLw-Zc8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RXjm98SXq-8

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Need on more ticket for SJ show.

dav_coleman — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 06:06:43 GMT

If anyone ends up with an extra ticket (or two) I could use one more. Please email dav@serve.com

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I need a ticket to the San jose show!

blackrockskid — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 15:54:12 GMT

I live in SJ and would love to help out with set up and clean-up.

skid

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the other ISEA

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 07:48:21 GMT

some of the SRL crew are doing other things for the festival besides the SRL show... for those attending there's also Eric Paulos' Interactive City Summit starting next monday:

Interactive City Summit 2006
ISEA2006

7-8 August 2006
Swedish American Hall
San Francisco, CA

http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ICSummit2006/

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.

The Interactive City Summit is centered around a series of open forum
debates, situation room lunches, public votes, and open microphone
sessions. Initiating this discussion will be a series of provocative
voices challenging us to re-think our beliefs and expectations of the
emerging Interactive City:

Malcolm McCullough (University of Michigan)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mmmc/

Matt Jones (Nokia Design)
http://www.blackbeltjones.com/

ReBar
http://www.rebargroup.org/

Mirjam Struppek (Urban Screens)
http://culturebase.org/home/struppek/HomepageEnglisch/Contact.htm

Trokia
http://www.troika.uk.com/

In addition, we want you to inspire us. During registration,
individuals and groups from all facets of the community are invited
to propose their own rapid fire vision presentation for the Summit.

Be a part of the inception of a new vision on urban life -- attend,
contribute, and have a voice.

This summit is held in conjunction with ISEA2006 and its Interactive
City theme with the results of the summit being featured at the ISEA
Symposium on 11 August.

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I CAN TAKE OUT MACKIE

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 01:12:00 GMT

I've got the quad band, I've been watching him, hahahahah

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san jose show SOLD OUT

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:27:40 GMT

already! can't believe it's all gone this quicky. more will come on the block later but reserved for ISEA attendees...

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machine hanging from the ceiling

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:07:11 GMT

we're about ready to load out for san jose so the shop is like a rubik's cube of machines swapping them in and out. so there's more space now to notice things. this is probably the worst place to be in an earthquake as the ceiling is packed with heavy things that might fall:

there's Jaws http://srl.org/shows/sanjose/pre-show/aug1/jaws.jpg
last used in the 80s i think for filming Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief. it used to have 2 clear orbs where eyes would be if you were to anthropomorphize this thing and inside the orbs were dead animals like eyeballs spinning around inside.

then there's also the stu bot: http://srl.org/shows/sanjose/pre-show/aug1/stubot.jpg
which is the only animal-operated machine at the shop. it was driven by Stu, Mark's dead guinea pig

i'm taking random photos of machines like this that wont be part of the show as they are uncovered and also some crew silliness and posting them to the pre-show photo blog: http://srl.org/shows/sanjose/pre-show/blog/ if people want to take a look...

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Need volunteers for upcoming show?

dav_coleman — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:06:23 GMT

I'd like to volunteer to help out with the upcoming San Jose show. I did some work for the 1998 What is Real show, helping out a bit around the shop in the weeks beforehand and then setting up under the highway. During the show I was a back-watcher for one of the camera men out on the stage.

My time in the coming weeks is a bit tight now. My wife and I just had a baby girl (we named her Tesla) (in fact my wife was in the middle of labor during the July 4 party at SRL HQ; we could hear all the mayhem from our house on Potrero Hill).

I still might be able to help out for a few hours here and there however. On the day of the show I could show up as early as mid afternoon to help set up.

I'm a software engineer professionaly, but I'm happy to do any sort of manual labor.

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pre-show phøtoblog

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 04:49:09 GMT

the crew have been working full-bore now since 4th of july... i've set up a photoblog that i hope to update if not daily at least weekly or somewhat weekly... its hanging off the 'official' san jose show page: http://srl.org/shows/sanjose/

theres some images and video from 4th of july as well -we took 2 machines out for practice/testing. the V1 and the inchworm (which me and miss pine are running at the show) and images of mark's son jake running his first SRL machine.

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bay area show

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 31 May 2006 17:43:38 GMT

unofficial confirmation: yes the rumors are true! discount tix also available now from ISEA ( http://01sj.org ) but until the info is posted on the SRL site, if it were me and i was from out of town, i'd hold off for a bit. i've gotten mail from people in europe not being able to get a refund for their plane tickets. if things change, just remember, SRL isnt responsible! :)

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The Bubba Winch

dangerangel — Fri, 26 May 2006 23:44:09 GMT

I just saw the commercial for the new Pixar movie "Cars" and the Bubba Winch from the Austin show has a part. Looks like a big supporting role.

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OMG!!! THEY CHANGED THE START TIME OF THE POWER TOOL DRAG RACES!!!

teamkiss — Thu, 04 May 2006 02:48:04 GMT

OMG!!! They changed the Start time Of THE POWER TOOL DRAG RACES. It's a good thing REDNECKS get up EARLY and stuff.....

Okay Racers, it's that time again.

Congratulations on having the good taste to once more subject
yourselves to personal injury, potential humilation, public intoxication and severe
sunburn.

Oh yeah and the drive to succeed and be the best racer you can be all
that yadda yadda.

You are receiving this because YOU are one of the LUCKY FEW who will be
racing at the Power Tool Drag Races This Sunday, May 7th. Yes, it really is
this sunday, yes, this sunday is the 7th, I'll give you a minute to check
your calendars. . .

Okay, we good? Excellent.

Here are a few thing you need to know (pay attention, our options have
changed):

BECAUSE we have gotten such a stunning turnout for the races this year,
and BECAUSE due to extreme laziness on the part of the organizers we're
only having one day of racing, We would ask ALL BUILDERS to be ON SITE at

9:30am

Yes my friends you read me right, racers muct be AT THE JUNKYARD AT

9:30am.

If you don't have at least a representative group of your team there
with the machines, you will definitely make the baby Jesus cry, and worse, send
Bill the Junkman into an awful sulk.

This is so we can at least make a feeble attempt to get through all the
races. It'll be close and we'll probably end in the dark, but wonder of
wonders, we'll have light for a change, plus someone somewhere will probably find something to burn.

Ideally, we will begin racing a little after ten am, so we'll be
underway by the time we have an audience at noonish, maybe earlier. YES, the track will be set
up and good to go. Thanks Charlie and his crew for that, yay Charlie.

"But Gal Friday!" you say "How'm I supposed to get in from Sacramento
in time for 9am?" Well my frends, we can certainly make arrangement sof some
kind. I have couches. Let us know if it's a huge issue and we can work
something out so's you get there with time to spare, Glory Hallelujah.

Nom there will be no formal TV there this year. We are lean, mean, punk
rock and Sponsored by Delicious Delicious Lagunitas Beer so make sure to
intoxicate yourself well before operating your machinery.

Our Race Offical this year is once more Dave "Judge Dave" Calkins, who
will also be on the big PA telling you when to get your collective kiesters to
the starting line/staging area (did I mention we will in all likelihood
have a formal staging area? Thank Don for that. Yay Don.). He will be also
running the ladders and maintaining the all-important illusion of
professionalism. He can be bought with Pepperidge Farm and offers of massage.

John Hell and Hal Robins round out our announcing roster this year,
with a few potential alternates to sub in. If you know any hardcore gearheads of the female persuasion who can rock the mike, send 'em our way.

We will have pit tables and more electricity than you can shake a
capacitor at.

We will have pit bosses to show you where to go with what.

If you know someone who is fully planning on competing and they are not
on this list, TELL THEM TO REGISTER. Seriously, this is your main source of
information, the email you supply through the registration page. Send
'em to the website (http://www.buildersdb.com), it takes five minutes and will
result in Simone failing to have her traditional moments of despair under the
counter in the junkyard office. This means less yelling for *YOU!*. We love
that when that happens.

So, direct any questions you nearly invariably have to me, Simone, and
I will send em along to the right person. Should you wish to do some
preemptive abuse of the judges, please contact Dave. Should you wish to whine about the earliness of the hour, please contact Charlie. All abuse can be
directed to me, where I shall keep a careful note of your needs and then
immediately forget to bring that particular clipboard on the day.

Thanks a ton, remind me of all the things I forgot. See you at the
races!

Simone
--
Bringing you quality product in the face of crushing indifference.

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SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY It's RACING RACING RACING!!

teamkiss — Tue, 02 May 2006 03:19:13 GMT

Miss Mary Jane had a BAD crash in testing yesterday. I bent the frame and the front (Tires?). So I had to change it from 4WD to just 2WD but she still runs pretty good. I might have to stop by the Box Shop on Friday morning or so to grind a little and run a bead or two and change a gear ratio for a new motor I just installed. Hopefully someone will be there....

I comming down early on Friday to help you guys out with the track and whatever.

Matt and I mounted some new Gocart RACING tires on the Funny Car The (MATT DAWG EXSPRESS) on Saturday.

Of course we had to break them in and wear off the (high spots). HE HE...

So we strapped it to my (Toyota truck with (it's tires) chocked up real good) and did a 6 minute burn out.

Boy, the New tires get real gummy when hot and they plastered the tailgate of my Truck with Super Gooey Black Chunks of Melted Rubber Happiness.

Of course, I'm not going to clean it off and Stuff.

It kinda looks like a Rabbit had a problem with (exsplosive diarrhea)

Poor little Bunny..... ;)

Six days until RACING RACING RACING at the Junkyard.

Greese up your Tools and Register (you bunch of wanabees).....

Can you high tech POWER TOOL RACERS actually beat a (Berkeley Hippy Chick with a belt sander (with an awesome paint job)) in a semi fair race?

I'll bet you can't, so there and Stuff...

Well heres you chance to prove it....

http://www.powertooldragraces.com/

http://www.buildersdb.com/view_bots.asp?eventid=186

Actually I'm a little worried myself... Some of them Berkeley folks are really fast.. They have been running from The MAN for years and stuff...

Bring it ON...

Build Safe...

Build Mean...

Build Strong...

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It works!

kimric — Sat, 29 Apr 2006 19:37:28 GMT

We ran our scratch built steam car the other day. To everyones relief it actualy ran!
I am going to see if I can work out most of the bugs by Friday so we can bring it to 21 grand for first fridays. See the "Neverwas haul" tribe for details.

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Artist Talk and Reception @ Fringe Exhibitions

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:36:16 GMT

Join Fringe Exhibitions for an Artist Talk and Reception on Saturday Feb 25 2006 from 5-7pm

Director of SRL Mark Pauline will give a talk in the
gallery and screen videos from the recent SRL shows in
Los Angeles.

Survival Research Laboratories has established a
reputation of producing the most dangerous shows on
earth, since its inception in 1978 SRL has operated as
an independent organization, producing its own live
mechanical performances.

Fringe Exhibitions is a new exhibition space dedicated
to showing cutting edge and experimental art projects
that focus on installation, video, new media, and art
that engages with technology.

504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Flame Tornado in Spain

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 07:08:42 GMT

Join Kevin Binkert for a glass of absinthe and flame tornado in Valencia, Spain Feb 20-25

http://www.festivalveo.com/ficha.asp?programacion=225

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SRL Video Premiere and Panel

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:42:29 GMT

Mark's been busy!

This Friday, as part of SFIndie Fest, is the SF premiere of LA <3 SRL (LA show last year! see http://srl.org/shows/la2005/ ). 9:30pm at the Womens Building on 18th @ Valencia. Followed by a panel hosted by RE/Search founder V. Vale interviewing Mark Pauline and David Scardina (who shot the video).

Proceeds will go toward our impending move from our current location of 25 years, to a new home (somewhere). An estimated $100,000 is needed to accomplish this move. Come see a great program and support home grown SF cutting edge art!

SRL schwag will also be available for sale

As always, more info on the SRL site -http://srl.org/

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exploiting the momentum of self righteousness

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 09:40:52 GMT

another SRL fix without the smell of fumes as eric paulos says!

next wed. at UCB come see mark pauline speak
at ken goldberg's art technology and culture colloqium

http://ieor.berkeley.edu/~goldberg/lecs/

feb 1 7:30-9:00pm
160 ucb kroeber hall
berkeley

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the fish boy's dream

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 24 Jan 2006 15:23:02 GMT

sounds like the crew had a blast according to reports and anecdotes tricking in! there's an 'official' post-show roundup page now -we'll have images and video clips from the 'official' photographers up soon... in the meantime there's links to peoples' stuff. if anyone wants to have me add links to their images and credit them on the SRL site, PM me, thx!

http://srl.org/shows/la2006

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sneakies in LA!

.zegnatronicalled — Sat, 07 Jan 2006 01:28:00 GMT

Friday, January 06, 2006
SRL at Fringe Exhibitions
Exhibition Dates: January 21 - February 25, 2006

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 21, from 6 - 8 PM
504 chung king court,
los angeles 90012
213 613 0160

For its inaugural exhibition Fringe Exhibitions is pleased to present the work of Mark Pauline, director of Survival Research Laboratories (SRL).

This exhibition will feature the newest addition to the SRL machine family- the Sneaky Soldiers- near life sized, remote controlled army of revolutionaries. Also included in the exhibition will be large-scale documentary images, and the premier of the video from SRL's recent show in Downtown Los Angeles. This video features the first invasion of the Sneaky Soldiers. The SRL commentary on the art of war debued a Sneaky Soldier emerging from an 18-foot tall wooden Trojan horse to face danger from large-scale destructive robots enduring the pain of flame and damage through a hail of sparks and projectiles. After the fog of war was lifted from the field of battle revealing mangled wrecks of machinery, the Sneaky Soldiers were gathered to be repaired to fight again another day. Similar to a real theater of war where battle takes place, these machines and props engage in a struggle for survival. Both the machines and operators expend intense energy creating an atmosphere of immediacy and choreographed chaos. Each of the eight soldiers has an individual number and distinct battle wounds from the performance. The Sneaky Soldier has been a recurring character in many SRL performances. The new Sneaky Soldier is a major technological improvement with a steel torso enclosing a battery powered, chain driven mechanism to create a crawling action.

SRL engages new vocabularies by integrating machines, theatrical sets and props, with dramatic, visual metaphors bringing to life, large-scale mechanical performances for audiences that rival other popular culture events. By taking things to extreme ends, SRL attempts to create new levels of sensory and emotional intensity. Using diverse disciplines such as performance, literature, and engineering, in concert with artistic expression, ideas are transformed into visceral experiences. Employing technology to the fullest and breaking new ground by trying to build collaboration between art and electronic culture, the creative work of SRL is constantly evolving as advances in new technologies are being developed. We are just beginning to scratch the surface on understanding the potential of technology and its relationship to contemporary art. With the assimilation of machine to technology, cultural transformations take place. The evolution of electronic culture is a change in the dynamics of society, representation and experience.

Survival Research Laboratories was conceived and founded by Mark Pauline in 1978 as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to redirecting the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product, or warfare. SRL has staged over 50 mechanized presentations in the United States, Europe, and Japan that consist of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Since its inception SRL has operated as a not for profit organization producing its own live mechanical performances.

More info at fringexhibitions.com and srl.org

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oil drilling application for pitching machine

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:48:22 GMT

another episode unfolds in SRL's Best of the Yard where SRL receives a request from a Shell Oil Engineer in Houston asking to rent the Pitching Machine for some tests.

http://srl.org/yard/pitching#yard

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Build your own rusty robot.

Joanne — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:02:44 GMT

http://ravensblight.com/Robot.htm

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Links?

Swaz — Fri, 14 Oct 2005 06:10:56 GMT

My two big interests are making futristic weapons and high-tech surveillence equipment. I have the later covered, but am looking for links to used military and industrial technology for home-security applications. (microwave area-denial, pain-field generators etc.) Any links would be appreciated.

Swaz

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Robotic Garage Sale

cabfood — Thu, 13 Oct 2005 18:47:15 GMT

We are moving our machine shop and we have WAY TOO MUCH STUFF. A
decade of robotic combat, burning man and general stupidity has
left us with a ridiculously huge amount of cool stuff that even if
we lived to 1000 years old we would never get a chance to play with...

Garage sale starts at 10am - 245 Gate 5 Rd. in Sausalito CA 94965
on Saturday October 22nd (and 23rd if stuff is still left) we will
have a big garage sale. Everything must go.

Details here (please check this site for updates on weather and
pictures of stuff etc):
http://www.longnow.org/rhino/GarageSale.htm

* Tools - machine shop and woodworking
* Robot Parts
* Gear Motors
* Metal - titanium, aluminum, stainless etc
* Batteries and Chargers
o nicads 24 and 36 V
o NiMh 24v
o Lipoly 11.1v 400-1200Mah
o 10 Graupner chargers
o many other chargers and batteries
* Pneumatic stuff
* Wheels and hubs, solid foam and pneumatic
* Chains, cogs, and gears
* Military surplus
* Weird stuff
* household stuff
* futon couch
* sporting goods
o mountaineering gear
o snowboards (and one split board)
o rock climbing stuff

We will update that site with lists of stuff and pics as we go
through it...

(Please forward this message to people or appropriate lists)
--
Alexander Rose
Inertia Labs (partner)
http://www.inertia-labs.com

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SRL Crew Members Fire Heroes

.zegnatronicalled — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 02:24:27 GMT

amazing! alan anzalone and ellen starbird save 12 lives in oakland fire:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2935413

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RSS Feeds of what the crew is up to...

.zegnatronicalled — Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:38:29 GMT

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SurvivalResearchLabs

and of course the more sparse official SRL announcements:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/srl

HTML version of the crew news here:
http://tinyurl.com/ddryw

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Wooden gears.

kimric — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:07:39 GMT

There is an article in todays Tribune about the Clock Tower I am working on.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_2943542

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This is not a "I hate bush tribe"

Jon-Sarriugarte — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 02:18:25 GMT

This is an SRL tribe.
I will not tollerate talk about:
Hippy dippy art things
Burning Man
Soap bubbles
Anti War mungering
Gardening
Your Sex

Jon

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JG Ballard Book Release Party

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 01:27:33 GMT

This Saturday at the Hayes Valley Market, RE/Search is hosting a party for their new book. Contains many never before published interviews of JG Ballard by V. Vale, Mark Pauline (SRL), and Graeme Revell (SPK)

There will be a panel moderated by Vale with Mark and Graeme. Large posters/photos by Charles Gatewood and Ana Barado (for sale i think), and the SRL crew in attendance.

For more flowery/PR-y description, see http://srl.org/shows/events/hayes/

The book will be for sale and can be autographed by Mark Pauline and Graeme Revell. SRL videos, t-shirts, posters etc. will be for sale as well.

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fallen battlebot brother

margaret — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 22:47:34 GMT

I didn't know the guy but I thought this might be of some interest here.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/11936773.htm

Robot whiz dies in scuffle

A Miami man known for driving the robot ''Rammstein'' on the popular Comedy Central show BattleBots died during a street fight in Davie Sunday, police said.

BY KEVIN DEUTSCH
kdeutsch@herald.com
AND ROBERT STEINBACK

Julio Cesar Roqueta lived fast.

The 24-year-old Miami resident loved going to clubs and parties. He always preferred swift cars to slow ones. And if someone wanted a fight, he was never one to back down.

But as Roqueta and two friends prepared to leave the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino early Sunday morning after a night of partying, someone picked a fight that ended with Roqueta being punched so hard he fell into an oncoming car on U.S. 441, killing him instantly.

''He wanted to do so many things in life, and I guess that's why he lived so fast, because he knew the end was coming,'' said Roqueta's sister, Anabel Rodriguez, 32. ``He liked to pretend he was tough. He had a very short temper.''

Roqueta also was a technical whiz who was largely self-taught. In 2000, he and some friends competed on the popular Comedy Central show BattleBots, which featured remote-controlled robots battling each other. Roqueta was the driver of their creation, which the team called Rammstein.

Roqueta attended Miami Coral Park Senior High, where he developed a love of robotics and mechanics with the help of a science-advocacy program.

Roqueta ''had a loud mouth, but he was a great guy with a huge heart,'' according to one of his friends, Alejandro Espinosa. ``Everybody who knew him loved him.''

The fight that led to Roqueta's death started tamely enough.

Roqueta and two friends from his BattleBot team -- Espinosa and Dennis Moreno -- spent much of Saturday evening and early Sunday at the Seminole Hard Rock. The group left shortly after 4 a.m. and returned to the parking lot where they prepared to leave in Moreno's souped-up Dodge Neon, Espinosa said Sunday.

In the parking lot, three or four people in a black Mercedes began ridiculing the Neon, and an exchange of trash-talking ensued, Espinosa said.

The car was an older model, but it had a specialized exhaust system, typically reserved for faster, newer cars.

''It was just teasing name-calling,'' Espinosa, 25, said. ''Just talk. We get into this sort of stuff all the time. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary.'' The other people were strangers, he said.

Roqueta got into a shouting match with one of the man, but no punches were thrown. It looked like a fight would be avoided.

Moreno, Roqueta and Espinosa left, turning northbound on 441. They were stopped by a red light at Griffin Road. The Mercedes also stopped. The trash-talking resumed, and apparently escalated. Someone got out of the Mercedes and came around to the passenger side of the Neon, where Roqueta was sitting in the front seat. Roqueta got out.

LANDED A PUNCH

Fists began to fly, police said. One of the men from the Mercedes cocked back, swung, and landed a punch on Roqueta's face, sending him stumbling backward, police said.

Roqueta fell down, his head hitting the bumper of a car headed northbound on U.S. 441, police said. The sound of the crash was so piercing, someone called 911 and reported it as a gunshot. When police arrived, they realized Roqueta had suffered a violent death, but not from a bullet.

''This kid hit [Roqueta] right in the mouth,'' said Davie Police Lt. Bill Bamford. ``He lost his balance, fell backwards, and the car hit him in the headlight area. It was just bad timing.''

After the accident, Roqueta's friends and the other men drove away from the scene, leaving his body behind, police said.

Espinosa said everyone left but all later returned.

The man who punched Roqueta, whose name was not released, came to a Davie police station later on Sunday and told police what happened. He had not been charged as of Sunday night.

Police also interviewed the other men involved. Davie police said they hope to track down the driver whose car slammed into Roqueta, Bamford said.

Rodriguez says she does not blame anyone for what happened to her brother. ''Whether that kid who punched him is guilty or not, it's not going to bring my brother back,'' she said.

Espinosa said he and Roqueta were both born in Cuba and their families remained close after coming to Miami. Roqueta's family arrived when he was 8, his sister Anabel Rodriguez said.

Aside from their BattleBot competition, the two also worked to design a propulsion system they hoped would be included on aerospace engineer Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which became the first privately funded space vehicle last September. Although their design wasn't used, the pair built a full-scale mock-up of the engine -- with 15,000 pounds of thrust -- and tested it in California's Mojave Desert, Espinosa said.

''He's just as smart as anybody,'' he said of Roqueta. ``Whatever he wanted to do, he did it. He basically taught himself how to weld.

''We talked about opening up a fabrication shop, or a custom motorcycle shop,'' Espinosa said.

ALWAYS JOKING

When Roqueta was with his family, he was constantly joking, trying to make them smile, his sister said.

On Saturday, Roqueta had spent hours playing with one of his nieces.

''He held her in his arms. ... He was so loving,'' said Rodriguez, as she began to cry. ``I don't know how I'm going to tell my girls he's gone.''

Anyone with information is urged to call Davie police at 954-693-8200 or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.

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Palm Springs?

Barry X. Lush — Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:05:27 GMT

Hey folks, I am seriously considering moving to the Palm Springs area and I was wondering if anyone knows of any underground arts scene in that area. Is there an underground arts scene around there or am I gonna have to be making trips to LA?

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Man...

ninaeleanor — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:29:37 GMT

... this just completelly sucks. I've never been, tho was pullin' out all the stops to make it this year.

http://www.burninbush.org/

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Robotic elephant and more..

kimric — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 06:46:42 GMT

This was some sort of public performance in Paris I believe.
Really amazeing, somthing to do with Jules Verne.
I can't begin to guess how much work this was.
Don't stop at the first page; it gets better...
"http://www.nantes.fr/ext/royal_de_luxe_2005/"

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need some advise w/hydrogen foam fire sculpture

swooper — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 03:11:35 GMT

For a fire sculpture at Burning Man 05, I plan on bubbling hydrogen through a soapy solution that will (I hope) produce a lighter than air foam which will drift up into the sky where it will be ignited. But foam is very weak and I need something like surveyors tape (something very lightweight) that can be unwound in the foam that will burn and carry the flame the entire length of the foam snake (I’m afraid the wind will break up my foam into several sections and then the flame will not go the entire length. This needs to be able to burn if wetted by the soapy foam. I'm also on the lookout for cheap/free chemicals that can be added to the foam, which will produce bright colors when burned.
Would you or anyone you know, have any ideas? Please & Thank You!

Randy Robinson
firebirdsofplayadise@yahoo.com

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Power tool drag races

kimric — Fri, 29 Apr 2005 18:12:44 GMT

Ther final episodes of PTDR are going to air in early may. Starting on the 5th I believe.
All times on PTDR tribe.

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srl on tv

.zegnatronicalled — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:14:12 GMT

i'm lagging on spreading the word but Xeni's been busy! if anyone gets G4, SRL is featured on the "attack of the show" today. there are film clips from the show that will be shown that are not yet avail. on the website or on dvd...

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/index.html

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/25/xeni_on_g4_tvs_attac.html

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shows?

Arcftmek — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 08:33:23 GMT

Greetz...
Having just discovered tribe.net, and just discovered that SRL has one, of course I just barely miss the show in L.A. (not even an hour away)
Any others planned soon? Anywhere in the western U.S. ? Travel is no problem at all...

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Nice article on LA show

Fruitbat — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:25:22 GMT

The LAVoice has good article with photos of LA show:

http://lavoice.org/article657.html

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SRL on NPR

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:43:40 GMT

xeni jardin's npr piece airing *now*:

http://www.scpr.org/#

blogged on boingboing also:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/04/21/xeni_tech_on_npr_srl.html

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LA photos

Melanctha — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 07:29:45 GMT

Here's a link to some pictures I took at the show:

http://imageevent.com/mk312/srlinla

enjoy!

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susan joyce + mark pauline

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:34:42 GMT

i have to say kicks ass as an event organizer. she knows what she's doing as far as securing the correct permits and stuff. all kinds of cops and firemen came by during the day but after taking a look at the permits, all they could do was wish us a good show. not only that, the catering was healthy AND tasted good.

also, i dont know how mark does it, but he spends *a lot* of money on these shows and does not get paid for it. aside from SRL itself, this is another thing that sets him apart from other artists. he doesn't whine about not getting grants or being at the mercy of 'the man', he just does his thing on his own terms. that's pretty cool -keeps him 'uninfluencable'

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essays, blogs, etc

.zegnatronicalled — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 20:19:14 GMT

crew member john rogers and re/search publisher v. vale write about the SRL show

http://srl.org/shows/la2005/johnko.html
and
http://srl.org/shows/la2005/vale.html

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SRL Show this weekend

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 08:08:10 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 1, 2005

Dangerous Curve
1020 – E. 4th Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013

LA ♥ SRL
Organized by Susan Joyce

SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABORATORIES
SATURDAY, APRIL 2 at 8:30 PM

SRL will be performing live in the Los Angeles Downtown Arts District. Featuring the debut of the new Sneaky Soldiers, a remote controlled army of revolutionaries and recent addition to the SRL machine family. Also appearing, some of the old favorites along with the fabulous crew!

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LA

.zegnatronicalled — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:12:11 GMT

The Huntington Beach Art Center is pleased to present Detours, featuring the work of Center for Tactical Magic (CTM), Critical Art Ensemble (CAE), Finishing School (FS), and Survival Research Laboratories (SRL). This multimedia exhibition defines various collective practices and explores their motivations, methodologies, and audiences as viable models of interaction and production
through installation, documentation, print, video, and web material.

Where: Huntington Beach Art Center is located at 538 Main St. 92648

When: March 12 - April 10, 2005

Panel Discussion and Opening Reception: March 12 from 6 - 10 PM

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tribe members

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 22:30:18 GMT

hey all so people have been subscribing and saying something about their contact with SRL or what they do and all when they join but you guys should tell each other too.

we all already know about which of the crew did what and who almost blew up whom. now it's all your turn.

i mean no word yet on the april show so we may as well blab about other SRL-related stuff:

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steel cans

.zegnatronicalled — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:49:32 GMT

so we went around with a magnet to look for steel cans in groceries (for the air launcher). asian markets sell drinks in real steel cans. these cans are coated in chromium which makes you lose weight. so drink from steel cans!

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jg ballard QUOTES

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:52:46 GMT

so here's a somewhat SRL-related thing happening next week. not a show but SPOKEN WORD!!! can you imagine! gah.

mark pauline, eric paulos, me, ru sirius, david pescovitz, and others will read chunks of the new book from RE/Search which is a compilation of JG Ballard quotes at citylights next week.

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Destroy Ape returns!

kimric — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:46:40 GMT

Destroy Ape Tech will be performing at the Limnial space to help raise money to move my shop and the gallery.
17th of december in West Oakland. More details at "21grand .org"

Kimric

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Seagulls

kimric — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 23:20:35 GMT

I was at the richmond dump today and was amazed at the number of seagulls. They use a small shock wave cannon to scare them off, but this seems to not work well.
I talked to a supervisor about the Shockwave cannon we have and he seemed pretty exited about it. It might be a good place to do some comunity service and dial in the cannon at the same time.

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SRL @ burning man? not

.zegnatronicalled — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:12:05 GMT

officially as of tonight (which is mark p's birthday by the way! ) it's not going to happen. ignore the thread on the other tribe -that's just a couple of us (not mark) wondering if we could do it. srl has specific requirements that most likely wont be approved by whoever approves these things and until we know for sure SRL has nothing to do with anything burning man related... as always...

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stolen

Vanessa — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 05:18:09 GMT

Dear everyone,
(This is forwarded to you):

Today Scott Calvert, SO of Ann Goldberg., who is to take care of my
BMW75/6-Sputnik sidecar, sent me an emergency letter stating that the
sidecar went missing. It was parked in Oakland, between 3rd Avenue and
19th.

I am in New Mexico, and cannot be back in California until January.

We have since checked with both the police and the tow, and neither
confirmed that they have the sidecar in their records. That means it is
stolen.

Most of you know this is my teaching vehicle, and I put almost a year to
make this vehicle happens. I am supposed to bring this vehicle back to
New Mexico in either this month, or January.

The vehicle in question is white, with the sidecar being red (a
sputnik). Its vehicle license plate number is 7M0563 (0=zero). Its vin #
4947155

The picture is here:

http://www.alcatrazmoto.com/rigs/bmwsputnik.jpg

Please spread this email out as far as possible, and also to all
(including Bay Area riders) forums, so that it could be found before it
was disassembled or shipped to Mexico. Please notfy all local groups such
as the Vampires, the Rats, Dragons, etc, to look out for it. Feel free to
do whatever you want to do with the thieves. I just need the vehicle
back.

Notice that since this is a sidecar, if the person stole it for joyride
may not know how to operate and can kill himself very easily. For those
that knows sidecar, its steering method is the exact opposite of a
motorcycle. A sidecar, like a trike, is traditioanlly used by handicapped
person, so stealing a sidecar is really a very disgusting act. This is a
school vehicle, and my students are usually handicapped.

Your help is appreciated,

Vince

--
Vincent B. Ho hbv@tsoft.com

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Rocket Car on the playa

unsubscribed_user — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:13:14 GMT

Wasn't the rocket car with no moving parts (engine) that was at Burning Man in '94-'95 built by someone SRL affiliated? It was an awesome piece of work that has left memories for me that will last a lifetime.

From my understanding, the chest-crushing explosion that occurred in the chamber that propelled the car was precisely acoustically tuned to regenerate itself resulting in a continuous stream of these explosions (so long as there was fuel to ignite).

Does anyone know what happened to the car - or the technology?

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another one bites the marriage dust

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 18:49:32 GMT

or more SRL gossip: Eric (http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/person/cef51f7b-c468-4fab-92d5-559faba8f60c?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Person%5Bcef51f7b-c468-4fab-92d5-559faba8f60c%5D&r=10535) gets married to the lovely cupcake (http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/person/534fb778-5a68-40fe-840b-8847177cc19f?_click_path=Application%5Btribe%5D.Person%5B534fb778-5a68-40fe-840b-8847177cc19f%5D&r=10535) this weekend, another SRL bachelor party gets flash mobbed by SRL women after their bachelorette party last night.

He joins the rest of the Brisbane (weird city with the star cult) suspects mark p, john l, and greg l who will show that town how stars are made. I should remember to look this xmas as they all try to outshine, outstar, out rotating-machinery each other.

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exploding televesions?

sugarbunni — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:05:15 GMT

Can anyone explain to me how to smash up a TV and computer monitor safely, keeping in mind my idea of saftey is similar to many of yours.

I've got a performance this weekend that I want to smash up these items in and I've been warned that TVs can explode. Is this correct?

And, did I mention I'm going to be mostly naked? Heh!

(Now that last part was just blatent self-promotion, sorry!)

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machinist job

dangerangel — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 01:05:08 GMT

saw this on craig's list - looks like fun.
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/tfr/46761787.html

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Oakland artists call

alora — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:33:07 GMT

The City of Oakland seeks review panelists on an on-going basis to serve on
Public Art Selection Panels for artists commissioned to create public art
through Measure DD. A process established by the City's Percent for Art
Ordinance requires artists and arts professionals to serve as voting members
in the selection of public artists and artworks. The names of potential
panelists must be approved by the City's Public Art Advisory Committee and
the Cultural Affairs Commission. Panelists from the approved list will be
contacted as needed to participate on selection panels for current projects.
The Cultural Arts & Marketing Department is looking for artists and art
professionals with a wide range of interests who would enjoy being part of
the process of selecting and commissioning Oakland's public art.

Measure DD Background

In November 2002 the voters of Oakland passed Measure DD, the Oakland Trust
for Clean Water & Safe Parks. This $198 million bond is funding a
comprehensive ten-year plan to clean up and restore Lake Merritt, the
Oakland Estuary Waterfront, and Oakland's creeks system by improving
land/water quality and expanding recreational facilities and opportunities
for Oakland citizens. The bond will generate approximately $2.8 million for
public art projects related to Measure DD.

Attached is information and the application on how to becoming a panelist,
please fill out the one page form send it along with your resume to the City
of Oakland, Cultural Arts Department, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, 9th Floor,
Oakland CA 94612. You may also fax your application to 510-238-6341.

Please let me know if you have difficult printing the attachment, I will
send you a hard copy ASAP. Soon we will be needing panelists for the
selection of artists to be commissioned through Measure DD.

Thank You!

Christin Hablewitz
Measure DD Public Art Project Coordinator
tel 510-238-2105 fax 510-238-6341

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SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW

kimric — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 17:05:05 GMT

The the human acting was not great ,but The retro Robots were really worth the price of a ticket. The CGI stuff is getting a bit overused lately.
The film never explaines why there is a GIANT statue holding a sword takeing up most of the useable payload area in the rocket.

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RFL

alora — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:54:00 GMT

Apparantly this Sat and Sun, the Robot Fighting League National Championships (RFL) are going to be doing silly things at Fort Mason. For 10 hours. Both days.
You can catch your favorite bots from "Battlebots" (TM) and the dorks who made them there, I bet. :)
Free for military. $20 for adults. $10 for kids.
http://www.combots.net/

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something stupid

alora — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 04:12:17 GMT

I was surfing on tinynibbles.com and found the transformer explosion. Then someone handed me this (via intarweb).
http://www.chemaxx.com/expolode.html

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jon

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 22:00:22 GMT

gutting the $35 dead cow seth bought before it exploded:

http://www.srl.org/shows/austin/video/cowguts.mov

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Fenton's- off topic- Oakland

alora — Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:20:40 GMT

A former colleague of mine wrote a story that appeared in the East Bay Express today, Wed. Sept.22, about the Fentons fire. Good read...
Check it out.

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Ristow on tv

locnar — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 17:45:00 GMT

SRL member Christian Ristow got some airtime in L.A. yesterday. You can see it here:
http://www.cbs2.com/
look for CALIFORNIA DREAMS: Ristows Robots
in the video section.
I'm in there as well, just for a split second. Christian informs me that my tailpipe is on fire.

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Causin' trouble at BM

alora — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:59:31 GMT

Jon S, Kyrsten, Steven, Christian, Kerry, Teale, Margorie, and I caused a bunch of trouble at this years BM. Did ya hear about the assholes that lit a whole row of porta-potties on fire? Cough Cough.
Check out some of Christian's work at robochrist.tribe.net
:)

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FREE Eddie!

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 02:48:39 GMT

srl crew member eddie is in jail for filming the protests at the RNC - bid on this nifty 'girly man for arnold' sign and help bail eddie out!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6320623880&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT

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Jake Edward Pauline

.zegnatronicalled — Sat, 21 Aug 2004 17:22:53 GMT

Mark Pauline and Amy Critchett proudly present

The Deliberate Evolution of A Baby Zone

August 19 2004

Possessing exceptional capabilities expected of any SRL offspring, Jake Edward Pauline was born good looking, big and healthy, stacked, with a full head of hair. Arrived on the scene with a roar, and proceeded to bite the doctor as his first act of survival. Well done!

Congrats Mark and Amy!

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Ai-Yi-Yi, Robots!

Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:40:11 GMT

Bright Lights Film Journal

August 2004 [Issue 45]

Ai-Yi-Yi, Robots!

Survival Research Laboratories:
10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD

A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to
Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses

By Gary Morris

One of the early lessons museum visitors learn, from parents, teachers, and underpaid guards, is: "Don't touch the art!" The reasons for this vary from commercial considerations (imagine sticky fingers on a Rembrandt) to reinforcing middlebrow notions of quality and taste, but the result is typically a rigid respect, even reverence, for the "art object" that keeps the experience passive and bloodless. The only mainstream institutions that encourage "disrespecting" the art by interacting with it are children's museums, which are also, significantly, popular with adults. It's no surprise that "experiencing" art, as opposed to cringing before it, must be ghettoized in a children's play space, as if too much engagement is a sign of immaturity.

Of course, some adults want more than giant sandboxes and lever-based zoology tests. Fortunately, the more extreme realms of performance art from the last quarter of the last century address this need, providing new and shocking aesthetic thrills. Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, San Francisco's Survival Research Laboratories has been a leading force in this area. SRL creates complex tableaux vivant "starring" hand-created robotic forms and dead animal parts that enact ritualized melodramas of destruction. These dramas, a kind of mechanized Grand Guignol, usually end in an apocalyptic crash, with fur, flesh, metal, and fire exploding across the stage or the street. SRL's work is visionary: their grafting of the organic with the mechanical paved the way for films like Robocop, Terminator, and The Matrix series, and phenomena like Junkyard Wars and Monster Garage that smear the lines between human beings and machines.

Full Text:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/45/srl.htm

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corpses

alora — Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:37:19 GMT

Went and saw the Gunther Von Hagens exhibit at the California Sciences Center in LA last weekend. It was absolutely amazing. Just thought I would share my excitement! Woot!

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10 Yrs of Robotic Mayhem

.zegnatronicalled — Sat, 03 Jul 2004 05:44:27 GMT

jon reiss srl video on dvd

http://www.parasiteproductions.com/roboticmayhem/

Before "Battle Bots", "The Matrix", "The Terminator" or any of their imitators, there was Survival Research Laboratories. Founded by the visionary Mark Pauline in 1978, SRL utilizes incredibly complex props and robotics to create a unique spectacle unlike anything seen before. In this DVD collection Jon Reiss encapsulates the humor, terror, artistic bravado and technical genius behind the menacing machines and eaves it into a gloriously cacophonous whole.

Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 45 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.

From acclaimed Director Jon Reiss, whose works include Better Living Through Circuitry and Nine Inch Nails Happiness In Slavery video, this DVD shows the development of SRL from it's earliest performances in front of a handful of people in San Francisco to grand spectacles staged for thousands in the U.S. and Europe. It also features special editions of SRL Documentaries, biographies, interviews and photos and the World Premiere of the Delusions Of Expediency.

Find out more about Survival Research Labs at: http://www.srl.org/ and http://www.parasiteproductions.com/roboticmayhem/

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Suburban geek makes home-made flamethrower

sfslim — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 00:20:24 GMT

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=f827c9678e6c12e5db992c721eef704b&threadid=1107178&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

Prolly not too impressive to anyone here, but still pretty damn cool for a kid. Every teenager in amerika should have one of these.

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Best near death show experience

kimric — Wed, 18 Feb 2004 01:42:16 GMT

Post your best ones! extra points for injuries.

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Cool Events this Saturday?

Uber — Wed, 09 Jun 2004 18:39:51 GMT

Anyone know of any really good shows in the Bay Area this Saturday? I'm kinda tempted to see Jewdriver and Veronica Lipgloss at the Slaughterhouse but I'm not a HUGE fan of either (though they are fun). Any recommendations of good shows or other fun/weird (non dance) events happening?

UberRudo

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Lecture and Demo at Stanford Next Week

.zegnatronicalled — Thu, 20 May 2004 17:30:30 GMT

Look at the event listing for details. Mark's bringing down a couple of machines.

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FIRE ARTS FESTIVAL!! Call for Fire and Light Artists, Performers and Instructors

Jill — Sat, 08 May 2004 19:49:45 GMT

CALL FOR FIRE & LIGHT ARTISTS, PERFORMERS, AND INSTRUCTORS

Burning Man and The Crucible present: the 2004 Fire Arts Festival
Wednesday through Sunday, July 7-11, 2004

An art exposition celebrating and showcasing innovative works of art incorporating fire and/or light, with workshops, lectures, installations, and performances.

We invite you to submit your work/performance for inclusion in our 2004 Fire Arts Festival.

The Fire Arts Festival will take place July 7-11 at The Crucible’s 48,000 square foot industrial arts facility and nearby 200,000 square foot outdoor space in West Oakland, dubbed the Fire Arts Arena. There will be a full program of arts and educational events throughout the five days and nights, including classes, lectures, workshops and demonstrations. The highlight of the festival will be the many fire performances and fire and light sculptures featured both inside The Crucible and outside at the Fire Arts Arena on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

The Crucible (www.thecrucible.org) is a non-profit arts education center that fosters a collaboration of arts, industry and community, teaching and showcasing fire, metal, glass and light art in the East Bay for over five years. The Crucible offers over 400 classes to over 3,000 students every year in everything from bronze casting to neon, welding to glass working, blacksmithing to fire dancing. Dedicated to the creative use of fire and light, The Crucible is known for its innovative and stunning public events and fundraisers, uniting artists from a diverse collection of disciplines.

Burning Man (www.burningman.com) has encouraged and presented work by fire artists and performers from around the world. From its early days on Baker Beach in San Francisco through its evolution into the organizing body behind a bustling temporary art metropolis of 30,000 in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, the Burning Man Project and community has supported and encouraged the arts – and the fire arts, in particular. Burning Man is dedicated to supporting, encouraging and raising global awareness for this unique medium and the groundbreaking artists that work with fire and light.

This year we are joining forces to jointly present this event, with sponsorship from the City of Oakland and The Oakland Museum of California, and with support from The Oakland Fire & Police Departments. Together we'd like to invite you, as a practicing artist, a performer using fire or light, or an instructor to get in touch and tell us how you might like to participate.

The mission of the Fire Arts Festival is to:

* Showcase and celebrate innovative fire and light artists, and to feature fire and light as exciting and diverse mediums for self-expression
* Give artists working with fire and light dedicated space and resources to share their work with new audiences
* Expose event producers, art collectors, museum and gallery curators, families and the broader Bay Area public to a full range of fire and light artists and to encourage greater funding for art and performance of this genre
*Offer unique learning opportunities through artist talks, demonstrations, classes and special workshops
* Provide an extended meeting-place for artists and performers to share information, collaborate on new work and build greater community
* Give artists and the general public access to state-of-the-art, practical information and new ideas from experts in the mediums, fire and safety officials, and well-known artists
* Promote arts education, fire safety and encourage positive, creative expression among youth groups with a special youth field trip day, art demonstrations and art facility tours
* Promote the safe use of fire and share best practices
* Bring members of the City, the Fire Department and fire artists together to encourage dialogue and work towards establishing best practice safety standards.

Schedule:

Wednesday, July 7th:
-Desert Art & Fire Art Preview lectures: 7pm-10:30pm

Thursday, July 8th:
-Fundraiser Preview Gala benefiting The Crucible & The Black Rock Arts Foundation: Featuring fine foods & wines, special stage performances and a intimate preview of the Fire Arts Arena 6:30pm-Midnight

Friday, July 9th:
- Youth Field Trip Day: 12pm to 3pm (scheduled in advance)
- Stage & Fire Arts Arena Performances: 8:00pm-Midnight

Saturday, July 10th:
- Classes and workshops: 11am-5pm (space limited, registration and fee required)
- Family Crucible Open House: 1pm – 3pm with a Fire Arts Arena showing from 3pm-5pm.
- Stage & Fire Arts Arena Performances: 8:00-Midnight

Sunday, July 11th:
- Classes and workshops: 11am-5pm (space limited, registration and fee required)
- Closing ceremony: 6pm

We hope that the entire fire arts community and general public will benefit from this event and that you will want to be a part of it. You'll get ample set-up and breakdown time and we'll be doing extensive outreach and publicity for the event.

We hope to make this an annual joint event to support and grow the fire arts community both on the West Coast and nationally.

If you are interested in participating as a performer or installation artist, please fill out the application and e-mail it to fire-festival@burningman.com or mail completed application and support materials to:

Burning Man
C/O: Fire Arts Festival 2004
P.O. Box 884688
San Francisco, CA 94188-4688

You can also go to the link on our website at http://www.thecrucible.org/calendar/faf_call.html where you can download an application.

Applications will be accepted until June 15th, but in order to be included in advanced printed materials and considered for funding assistance, we must hear from you by end of day May 23rd.

If you are interested in proposing a class or workshop, please go to the link on our website at http://www.thecrucible.org/about/jobopp.html and e-mail completed forms to rob@thecrucible.org and enter in the subject line of your e-mail, “Fire Arts Fest 04 Class Proposal” Class and proposals are due May 14th.

If you are interested in proposing a lecture, please e-mail: michael@thecrucible.org with your idea and your qualifications.

Thanks and we look forward to hearing from you and working together on this exciting event!

Burning Man The Crucible
Burning Man and The Crucible present: the 2004 Fire Arts Festival

Wednesday through Sunday, July 7 - 11, 2004

APPLICATION FORM
Please attach separate sheets if you need more space. Please note that we cannot accept submissions that involve pyrotechnics, art designed to be completely burned, or art containing toxic materials and/or paper, plastic or wood. Please complete and return this application to: fire-festival@burningman.com by end of day May 23rd to be considered for financial assistance and included in press materials. Contact us by June 15th if you are not seeking financial assistance and wish to have your work considered.

1.Your name:

2. Is your art a performance or installation?

3. Name of Group/Act, if applicable:

4. How many members are in your group and how many in your support team (you will later be asked to provide a complete list of your team(s))?

5. Contact details, including phone number(s) and email:

6. Describe your artwork/performance/lecture topic/class/demo in detail and include a link to your website or online images, if you have any:

7. Your power needs, if applicable:

8. Minimum and maximum duration of your performance or installation:

9. What are your sound/music/light needs, if applicable?

10. Dimensions and media of your piece, if applicable:

11. Any other special needs or requests you may have:

12. What are the fuel costs and/or transportation costs associated with operating/performing your piece? Performers, please give estimated cost per performance; for sculpture, please provide estimated cost per hour of operation.

FIRE SAFETY DETAILS AND PLAN:

As part of the application process we also require a full, detailed fire safety plan from all performers and artists who intend to work with open flame. Please answer all applicable questions with sufficient detail.

1. Describe the flame components of your artwork/performance /demo in detail:

2. What type of fuel (s) will you be using and in what quantities?

3. Describe your fuel delivery system or holding vessel (if applicable):

4. Are you introducing any forced air or other materials to the flame? (if so, please list with quantities)

5. Describe your flame equipment or tools:

6. What is the duration of the open flame portion of your piece or performance?

7. Describe your flame height and characteristics:

8. Are there peaks in the intensity or size of the flames? YES____ NO___
If yes, how are they triggered/controlled and how high/long do the flames rise?

Are these peaks predictable or unpredictable?

9. Describe any emergency shut offs or shut downs procedures (if applicable):

10. What is the safe distance required for audience members from your piece/ performance?

11. What is the most potentially dangerous aspect of your piece/ performance?

12. List any flammable items that will be in proximity to your piece/ performance: (examples: wood, paper, plastic, synthetic clothing etc.)

13. Describe your fire safety precautions and the fire safety tools you will bring:

14. Please list number of fire safety personnel you are providing & their duties:

15. Are additional fire safety tools/staff necessary that you would like help providing?
YES___ NO___. If yes, what are they?

16. Have your performed this “piece” before? If so, where and did you work with a fire department? If yes, please list contact:

17. Do you have any concerns with regard to safety?

18. What questions do you have?

We are developing our publicity and promotional materials and would like to know more about you and your work. Please send us:

* Links to your website or any photos available of your work online
* Videos, still photos of your work
* A five-line bio AND a longer bio if you like

You can send information to us at:

fire-festival@burningman.com

Burning Man
C/O: Fire Arts Festival 2004
P.O. Box 884688
San Francisco, CA 94188-4688

Or fax 415-865-3820

We look forward to working with you!

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SRL 25 Yr Anniv Celebration Schedule

.zegnatronicalled — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 04:52:58 GMT

tentative schedule:

7-8 Mark Pauline/Matt Gonzalez/V Vale panel: "Bay Area Cutting Edge Perf. Art & Social Change"

TINY SPEECH BY Lynn Woolsey, Congresswoman (2 min)

8-9 10 SRL mini-interviews, 5 min each (Vale interviews one-on-one, or one-on-two)
1. High Techness. Karen Marcelo, Eric Paulos, Eddie Codel.
2. Opera. DA Therrien
3. Arrested: Mike Dingle - Mark/Dingle arrested
4. 2cops, metalplace: Kimric
5. early days, Kezar: Monte Cazazza
6. 15yr w/SRL: Brian Normanly
7. BeautyTech: Greg Leyh: Tesla Coil,
8. Ken Goldberg: "Legal Tender"
9. VioletBlue- woman running deadly machine/- Kevin Binkert Flame Tornado
10. Young Turk joins SRL: Michael Wehner
11. John Law - overview summary of SRL.
12. Susan Joyce - tiny Q&A (SRL 25 Yr Retrospective in Vegas)

9:15-10pm Jon Reiss 15 min Best of SRL in 80s, narrated live. Q&A afterwards
() introduce 2 current SRL videomakers Dave Scardina, Alan Kelly.

10-10:20 Berkeley Show dual-projection by Scott Beale & Marian Wallace
10:20-10:30 Q&A w/Kevin Consey, BM Director about how he got show to happen, SRL

10:30-11pm world premiere of SRL L.A. Video by Alan ___ (tent.)

11:30-? KATY BELL & FRIENDS performance

11:45-12 midnite EXTRA ACTION MARCHING BAND leads everyone outside

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violets on radio now

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 15:27:14 GMT

kusf i think it is...talking about srl and the thing at the lab later!

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Mark + Vale on Channel 4

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 21:32:35 GMT

mark pauline (& v. vale) on KRON (Bay Area Channel 4) TV

Sun 9:30 am. apr 4 2004

clips from live shows will be shown. mark & vale will be interviewed live.

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SRL 25 Yr Anniversary

.zegnatronicalled — Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:49:29 GMT

a week from today...

S R L 2 5 Y e a r A n n i v e r s a r y Celebration

Fri Apr 9, 7pm-midnite
The Lab
2948 16th St @ Capp (1/2 block from 16th St/Mission St BART Station)
San Francisco

MATT GONZALEZ will dialogue with Mark Pauline from 7-8pm on "Cutting Edge Art and Social Change." And, the Extra Action Marching Band will close the evening!

The entire evening will be a testament to the complex genre invented in the Bay Area by SRL, which might be termed "machine opera"

Other surprises are still being planned. SRL will make available posters, videos, T-shirts and other impossible-to-find rarities. Admission includes a $5 discount coupon good toward the purchase of a RE/Search PRANKS! book, which contains a lengthy interview with SRL founder Mark Pauline.

http://srl.org/shows/events/25/

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