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DORKBOTSEA 2nd
ANNIVERSARY
MEETING AND CELEBRATION
IT’S…
TESLA NIGHT!!!
at 6:00 PM at CoCA
on SUNDAY, JUNE 5TH
Join dorkbot-sea regulars and irregulars, teslaphiles, technophiles,
artists and aesthetes for an arc and spark-filled night as we
celebrate the work and influence of the most visionary of so-called
mad scientists -
NIKOLA TESLA
Find out more about...
BEST TESLA COIL and BEST TESLA-INSPIRED DEVICE
OR ARTWORK prizewinners MATT
STIGER
and LAWRENCE
MACCARY!
See
Images
from chasBlog!
and
VIDEO of Tesla-inspired devices in AWE-INSPIRING
ACTION – from SRL’s
Seattle show and beyond!
Hear…
FOUR FANTASTIC SPEAKERS talk about their work
with Tesla-inspired technologies!!
Bring…
out your Jacob’s Ladders, your Tesla Coils, your plasma balls,
your bladeless turbines, your old radios, your strange medical
instruments: anything and everything Tesla-inspired more than
welcome (Vandergraaff generators and the like equally encouraged)!
Click for show and tell guidelines.
Win…
Prizes for anyone bringing a Tesla Coil, the best Tesla Coil
and the coolest of the Tesla-inspired devices!!!
Experience…
Visuals by VJ
Scotbot!
The smell of ozone in the evening!
Dance…
to music by CARLOS
MIGUEL, DjMB
and TECHNOISYOURFRIEND
Drink…
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SPEAKERS Include...
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FROM LOS ANGELES: BILL
WYSOCK, professional creator of Tesla Coils for
Hollywood, museums and scientific institutions worldwide,
looks back at 30 YEARS of shock and awe
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FROM SAN FRANCISCO: GREG
LEYH, builder of the WORLD’S LARGEST TESLA
COIL and instigator of The NEVADA LIGHTNING LABORATORY,
talks about his past, present and future work
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FROM PORTLAND: artist ERIC
FRANKLIN, creator of amazing NEON and ARGON glass
sculptures exhibited across the West, talking about the
hows, whys and why nots of making these compelling sculptures
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FROM SEATTLE: the instigator of the Weird Sciences
Salon, folk scientist and artist WILLIAM
J. BEATY explores NIKOLA TESLA and MIND CONTROL
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SHOW AND TELL…
FROM SPOKANE: engineer and artist LAWRENCE ‘MAC’
MACCARY gives a TOUR of his STRANGE EQUIPMENT!
TOM INGRAM, LMP and his WEIRD INSTRUMENTS!
MATT STIGER and his MEDIUM-SIZED coil with the 7 FOOT SPARKS!!!
TESLA COILS! JACOB’S LADDERS! PLASMA GLOBES! A BLADELESS
TURBINE! OLD RADIOS and more, more, MORE –
plus PRIZES for the strangest and the best: YOU VOTE!!!
Click for SHOW AND TELL GUIDELINES
PERFORMERS…
visuals by VJ
SCOBOT
music from CARLOS
MIGUEL, DjMB and TECHNOISYOURFRIEND
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Survival
Research
Laboratories’
THE PLEASURES OF
UNINHIBITED EXCESS
Including SRL’s 1990
Seattle performance
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Krsto Papic’s
THE SECRET OF NIKOLA TESLA
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Eduard Galic’s
NIKOLA TESLA: THE GENIUS
WHO LIT THE WORLD
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SHOW AND TELL GUIDELINES
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SAFETY: YOU are
100% responsible for the safe operation of your
device inside or outside the CoCA space.
DON’T HURT US OR YOURSELF!!!
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POWER: if you have an unusual power requirement,
please BRING YOUR OWN GENERATOR.
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EQUIPMENT: please bring your own tools,
extension cables etc. – everything you need
to display your devices. We will have SOME large
tables and about 8 pedestals; if you have a particularly
large object or collection, please bring your own
table.
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SETUP: We will be at CoCA from ~4.00 pm
on the 5th setting up tables and chairs. Setup for
show and tell officially starts at 6 pm along with
the Tesla documentary and SRL videos, but if you
want to a) bring equipment or b) set up earlier,
let us know (see below).
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VOLUNTEERS: if you need assistance showing
your device or keeping the audience at a safe distance,
please arrange for people to help you before you
come along to dorkbot. We’ll have some of our
own volunteers around, but it would help us if you
brought your own, too. Thank you!!!
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QUESTIONS? dorkbotsea
[@] dorkbot [.]
org
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… don’t forget the PRIZES!!!!
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