Saturday, June 30 and Sunday July 1, 2012, 11am-5pm
Note: Those attending Saturday will be trained to lead a group on Sunday.
-- Join Kite Designers Mathew Lippincott and Leo Famulari in a rare NYC appearance --
-- part of the 2012 iLAB Higher E+D fellowship --
Workshop Goal: to cure your helium addiction by showing you how to construct kites and solar balloons.
Location: 630 Flushing Avenue
Join Public Laboratory members Mat Lippincott, an extraordinary floating and flying object sculptor visiting from Portland, Oregon, and Leo Famular, an extraordinary kite designer visiting from Miami, Florida, for a hands-on workship on design principles and construction of Solar Balloons and Bamboo Kites. These can be used for taking aerial images and other aerial data gathering, or for your pure enjoyment.
This workshop is also part of iLAB—an interdisciplinary collaborative project between PLOTS staff member Liz Barry and two dance artists: Jess Einhorn and Lailye Weidman. They will share a bit about their research on Sunday.
You can either take your kite or solar balloon home, or add it to the PLOTS NYC lending library (including the floating gallery project, part of the 2012 iLAB Higher E+D fellowship).
Please bring your own lunch -- we will provide snacks!
Additional directions:
Once at 630 Flushing, walk to Thompkins Ave and enter the parking lot behind the Pfizer building. The main entrance has a small overhang and bicycle parking. There is also car parking.
For questions, please email liz@publiclaboratory.org or call 336-269-1539.
Hope to see you there or in the air.
Solar Balloons
Tyvek and Bamboo Kites
Kite Trains
Test.
