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Attacks from Mars 2016

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Attacks from Mars is a giant, roaming pinball machine with an animated playfield.   It is a Burning Man “mutant vehicle” project, where we love nothing more than to create a compelling mobile experience for riders, so that the journey of traversing around the playa is as much fun as getting anywhere.  With the Attacks from Mars pinball machine, our riders are the ball in the game, and as they bounce around the play space, they are activating sound and lighting.  This project is a gadgeteers dream, with interactive, controllable LEDs, arduinos, switches, etcs. — all those wonderful mechanical aspects…

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The Skykomish Hotel and the Blue Lady

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[cross-posted on shellydianefarnham.com] The Skykomish Hotel is a historic landmark, built in 1904 in the small frontier mountain town of Skykomish, Washington. Neglected and empty for more than ten years, the Hotel was recently reclaimed by the Town of Skykomish and will be undergoing renovations by Revive-Skykomish LLC, in part through a grant by 4Culture. To learn more, see this article in the Monroe Monitor Better Days for the Skykomish Hotel. To celebrate the hotel’s upcoming renovations and bring light to the town during its long winter nights, we worked with locals to install LED color washes in the same style…

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Attacks from Mars at Burning Man 2015

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Below are images from our Attacks from Mars pinball machine, fully assembled for Burning Man 2014. This is a three year project — the first year we created the murals and play space. In the next two years we will be updating the external lighting and make the playspace more interactive. Thanks to the fabulous team who made this possible, including all our “guest” artists who contributed many hours in construction and running the mutant vehicle at Burning Man. Shelly Farnham, Greg Larson, Jeff Larson, Daniel Walker, Andrew Thomas Cross, Lea Willingham, Ben Flaster, Shivers Бред Tb, April Suzanne Denton,…

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Skykomish Bridge Project

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We had a great opportunity to do an interactive lighting project on the Skykomish bridge, to help light it up for the holidays.   Skykomish is a small mountain town 16 miles West of Stevens Pass on Highway 2. As people drive over the bridge, their cars are detected with a sonic range finder and the lights chase along with them. The goal is to both excite people to drive over the bridge, and to notify the town that someone is driving in. For the lights, we used outdoor LED lights with color controllers.  We used a sonic range finder…

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