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New Hampshire camp created giant flipbooks and functioning pipe organ

New Hampshire #summercamp created giant flipbooks and a functioning pipe organ this past summer

Beam Camp, a New Hampshire summer camp that commissions elaborate collaborations between campers and artists, designers and engineers successfully built a collection of giant flipbooks and a functioning, tree-shaped pipe organ this past summer. The flipbook project – known as the Universal Play Machine – was a collaboration with the UK-based Mobile Studio Architects. The project masters were…

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Beam Camp puts out call for 2016 project proposals

Beam Camp puts out call for 2016 project proposals

Beam Camp, the summer camp program in New Hampshire, that teams campers with artists, designers, engineers and other professionals to execute creative projects in a natural environment has put out their annual call for project proposals for the 2016 camp season. The camp is looking for: Proposals from creative individuals with big ideas, including but not limited to Artists, Engineers,…

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Built by Campers and Staff of Beam Camp (July Session). Designed by Rachel Kunreuther and Doug Stookey. Film by Jennifer Lauren Smith. Music by Beam Campers (August Session).

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For the August 2012 Beam Camp Project, Beam campers and staff built a land-based boat machine that controls a handmade night sky inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Light Is Like Water." Project Master Matthew Springett. Film by Jennifer Lauren Smith. Humming by Felix (uncredited).

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Inventgenuity Boston

Hello, friends. I just wanted to let you know about the Inventgenuity Festival that's happening this Sunday, March 18th in Boston. It's a creative event designed for kids that  will explore will explore a theme of "dis/assembly" with hands-on workshops and on-going collective projects led by expert makers, unmakers and re-makers of sound, electricity, food and objects of all kinds. I'll be one such maker, leading workshops on making pouches from busted bike tubes. Spread the word!

Here are a couple photos from Inventgenuity Brooklyn 2012:

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