Bash to the Future Prints - Now Available!

All you faithful Steel Yard supporters who braved the rain, but couldn't bear to lug our limited edition prints through the downpour ... now is your chance to purchase them online! The five exxxtremely limited edition prints available at our fund raiser are now online, and going quickly. Check out the prints page to securely buy them through PayPal. If you would like to purchase them from us directly, give our office a shout, and we can arrange a time for pick up. (401) 273-7101 or contact@thesteelyard.org.

Purchase here!

Audio/Visual Slide Show of the Bash by Jack Lenk

Check it, check it out...
Click on www.lenkphoto.com and scroll down to "Featured Projects"

Bike to Work Day - May 18th

Providence is gearing up for Bike to Work Day on May 18, 2007! Events will take place at Biltmore Park beginning at 7:00am with refreshments. Providence Mayor David Cicilline will be cycling in to lead the 8:00am press conference featuring local, state and community leaders. Activities will continue until 9:00am. Check it out
(and yes, this means you Anusha and Dave)

Beam It Down From the Web, Scotty

PASADENA, Calif. — Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cellphone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on television. Now.

In a few years, it will be possible to make these items yourself. You will be able to download three-dimensional plans online, then push Print. Hours later, a solid object will be ready to remove from your printer.

It’s not quite the transporter of “Star Trek,” but it is a step closer.

Three-dimensional printers have been seen in industrial design shops for about a decade. They are used to test part designs for cars, airplanes and other products before they are sent to manufacturing. Once well over $100,000 each, such machines can now be had for $15,000. In the next two years, prices are expected to fall further, putting the printers in reach of small offices and even corner copy stores.

The next frontier will be the home. One company that wants to be the first to deliver a 3-D printer for consumers is Desktop Factory, started by IdeaLab, a technology incubator here. The company will start selling its first printer for $4,995 this year.

For more of this article by Saul Hansell (NYTs Published: May 7, 2007) clickhere

Artist creates 'emotional maps' of cities

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- As cartography projects go, Christian Nold's approach to charting the peaks and valleys of urban landscapes is decidedly unconventional.

First, he outfits volunteers with global positioning system devices and the sensors used in lie detector tests. Then, he sends his subjects out to wander their neighborhoods. When they return, Nold asks them to recount what they saw and felt when the polygraph recorded a quickened heartbeat or an elevated blood pressure.

"Tried to stomp on some pigeons," one tester recalled after a stroll through the chic bohemian Mission District of San Francisco, California.

"House right here, it reminded me of flowers at a funeral," another said of what he saw a few blocks south.

"Security guard at a business giving lollipops to kids. I think I wanted one," still another volunteer observed.

Nold, a London-based artist, calls his work "emotional mapping." Having mapped settings as varied as industrial areas of Bangladesh and the red light district of Brussels, Belgium, he recently arrived in San Francisco for his first U.S. project.

He's the first to acknowledge that the intimate portraits that result from his endeavors won't help a confused tourist get from Fisherman's Wharf to Golden Gate Park.

(For More of this story click here)

Look!!! We aren't so crazy...

Greenhouse technology to serve art in Germany

Kassel, Germany - Technology used to build tomato greenhouses cheaply is being adapted to build the temporary main pavilion for the Documenta 12 art exhibition which opens in Kassel, Germany on June 16, organizers said Tuesday.

At the first media showing of the pavilion where three-quarters of the contemporary art will be displayed, architect Tim Hupe said the sprawling art greenhouse, erected on the front lawn of Kassel's Orangerie palace, was mainly plastic held by tubular frames.

Documenta, held every five years, lasts 100 days and is Europe's principal exhibition to educate the public about contemporary art.

Some of the art will also be displayed in three existing museum buildings in Kassel. The city, north of Frankfurt, and the state of Hesse pay most of the costs of the exhibition, which is expected to attract to half a million visitors.

The roll-call of artists from around the globe invited to exhibit their paintings, sculptures, videos and installations is being kept a secret till the last minute.

At the showing of the exhibition space, which is still full of scaffolding and power tools, artistic director Roger Buergel scolded reporters asking for artists' names, saying: 'Don't be ungrateful for what we have allowed you to see today.'

Unlike a horticultural greenhouse, the Kassel art pavilion will have curtains and a ceiling made of gauze fabric containing thin strips of aluminium to exclude the rays of the sun and protect the art.

After Documenta, the greenhouse will be dismantled and the lawn restored as a public park.

© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

EFA Cup Update!

Just got word that we are required to show up around 10:45 INSTEAD OF 10:00 due to the way the schedule is working out. This is a good thing...=more sleep. Also, if you are planning to play with us please show up wearing as much RED as you got. Much love and I look forward to seeng ya'll on Saturday.
C.