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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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Attacks from Mars

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We love Burning Man “mutant vehicles” as an art form, creating compelling experiences for riders so that the journey of traversing around the playa is as much fun as getting anywhere. This year, we are converting our bus into a giant, roaming pinball machine.  The goal is for our riders to experience being the ball, activating sound and lighting as they bounce around the playspace!  This is very consistent with this years’ Burning Man theme, carnival of mirrors, creating the illusion of immersion in the game, where the wall dividing the observer from observed disappears, and the player becomes the played.…

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Zymphonic Wormhole is Funded!

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It’s official, we are going to Burning Man with our project!  Here’s how we described it in our grant application: The Zymphonic Wormhole celebrate the emergent, layered symphony in light and sound generated by traces of fearless adventurers thrusting themselves out into the great unknown — adventurers for whom what they would experience is as unimaginable to them as it would be to us modern humans, if we were to boldly fling ourselves towards new worlds in outer space through a wormhole. The 2014 Burning Man theme “Caravansary” explores the rich cultural exchanges brought about by mercantile adventurers on the…

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