Michael Mandiberg

I gave a lecture on August 8th at Dorkbot PDX entitled FAIL, WIN!, FTW?. It is a summary of my recent work experimenting with open licensing on physical objects. I explore what has worked, and what hasn’t, and some of the lessons I have learned.
Marisa Olson also spoke; her lecture is here

Watch the whole thing. Or at least the first 12 minutes. Its worth it. Fascinating. It is so familiar that I feel like I was shown this in grade school… alongside Powers of Ten.
Some things have changed since Ulrich Franzen made it: waterfronts are now viewed as more precious potential [...]

In early September I will be participating in New Amsterdam Bike Slam, Transportation Alternative’s co-sponsored bike think-tank as poetry-slam. As the description says:
Over three challenging rounds, each team will defend its proposals in front of a panel of expert judges and a live audience. At the end of the evening, the judges will declare [...]

Simon Jolly has been learning how to use the Vinyl Cutter. New fun kits coming soon.
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I have a bad habit of not blogging little things. Like when I get blogged. It seems so recursive. But at the same time, I delish them, and then they just stay there.
So in an effort to change that practice, I am instituting a Ping Report, which I will do as needed, [...]

This may be totally obvs to y’all, but i just realized I need to be adding my flickr imgs to *pools*
I added six laser cut images and six bright bike images late last night
here’s an image of how that affected traffic:

plus it got blogged (again)
anyway, lesson learned. lesson shared.

Beacon Graphics (our vinyl supplier) has made DIY kits. You can get get pre cut, or a 6 foot segment. For bulk orders, contact Dave Lynn at 800 762-9205. You can also stop by the Eyebeam bookstore and pick some up.
Then go to the instructable to get the steps right
Here is a [...]

Bright Bike at Holiday Hackshop. from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

This weekend we had a Bright Bike workshop at Eyebeam.  We wrapped about 15 bikes, and an additional 20 people took home materials to wrap their bikes at home based on the Bright Bike Instructable. It ended with a short critically-visible-mass ride around Chelsea.
Smashing success.
Here are pictures. Video coming soon.