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Just Totally Legit — Dropping Recreational Light and Magic

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It’s official, we are dropping the “Recreational Light and Magic” part of our name. We were calling ourselves Recreational Light and Magic (a Totally Legit LLC) as a bit of culture hacking, jabbing the Star Wars’ parent company Industrial Light and Magic.   Thanks to Jeff, we even had a set of matching Logos!  Somehow, Industrial Light and Magic never noticed.   However, it has just been too much of a mouthful.  So as of this week — we are just Totally Legit.  

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The Luminous Garden at Electric Sky, Lusio, and Arts-a-Glow

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This summer a large portion of our creative efforts were devoted to the Luminous Garden — a large-scale group collaboration creating an experience of an otherworldly garden biosphere, one with luminous flora and fauna and interactive kinetic sculptures. Please see our summary slideshow of the experience: http://www.slideshare.net/ShellyDFarnhamPhD/take-a-virtual-walk-through-the-luminous-garden This project was originally created as an installation for Electric Sky.  It was funded in part by 4Culture, and was sponsored by Third Place Technologies and the Town of Skykomish. Our basic framework was to provide an overarching experiential design theme “taking a walk in an otherworldly garden arboretum”, and then recruit other…

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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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Electric Sky 2016 Thanks and Links

Recreational Light and Magic has been organizing Electric Sky — an art and tech weekend campathon — for the past couple of years in partnership with Third Place Technologies, and with the support of the Town of Skykomish and 4Culture. The goal of Electric Sky is to foster the community of people collaborating at the intersection of art and technology in the Pacific Northwest.  This year we sought to further this goal by coordinating our efforts around a group installation, the Luminous Garden. It was a truly fabulous event, and went even better than last year!  We cannot thank everyone…

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