Paul with tube projectile wild in the streets 

Jill decked and wired for action 

Marcela with techno pendant

Steve and Marcela post techno-jewelry creation

Sweet Night in the Ring of Fire

On Wednesday, October 12, Fishbon Event Lab undercover operatives successfully erected a Clandestine Fire Ring on Helena Street in Santa Barbara, California and populated it with fire-obsessed dancers and a drop-in drummer. The result was a sublime interactive adventure complete with Alan's wrist or foot-mounted Wireless Accelerometer that controlled the height of the flames with variations in hand motions. A crazy dance interlude rounded out the evening, as belly dancers in the "advisory panel" hijacked the ring and lifted it with improvised movement accompanied by house tracks from a nearby vehicle. Is this what Wagner had in mind?

Leonora lights up the ring

Scene of the Ring of Fire adventure before liftoff 

Top secret propane apparatus 

Holly on fire

Blue ribbon advisory panel evaluates results 

Marcy in the ring with claque.

Magic Fingers and Doppler Beats

On Wednesday, October 5, Fishbon Event Lab agent provocateurs experimented with Doppler radar and audio effects. Beginning with the radar unit on a table, the miscreants discovered that when their hands moved 4 feet above it, the electronics produced higher pitched sounds that resembled a female voice. When they dipped lower, the home-made instrument made lower, male-like sounds. So, of course one thing led to another and there was dialogue, arguments, wild screeching and sweet singing. Later, a plastic bucket was added to give the sounds more depth. And finally, the whole thing was mounted on a stick. The result was a very cool Doppler Stringless Air Guitar on a Stick (DSAGS for those who absolutely feel compelled to reduce everything to an acronym). Plans are underway to create a custom housing complete with a candy apple paintjob and obnoxious fins. Rock on!

Alan works his magic. 

Dominique in a stone groove. 

Steve does a solo with a plastic bucket sound box. 

Ulrike and Steve in the Doppler duet. 

OK,so if it's good on the table, it's got to be better on a stick. Freakin' sick instrument.. 

Aluminum added to shield Doppler unit. 

The prototype "Doppler on a Stick" 

Steve. Carolyn and John peruse Ulrike's Burning Man book.