The Awesome Foundation NY has made our first selection! It was tough NY – you completely blew us away with amazing incredibly brilliant ideas.
But – this month, for our inaugural grant, we’ve picked a LASER TWEEZER that makes amoebas eat bacteria.
Awesomeness to the MAX.
No – really, its a laser tractor beam that prods [...]

The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is kicking off 2010 by announcing the official launch of the New York City chapter.  I will be serving as the NYC chapter’s Dean of Awesome.  More details on The Awesome Foundation Blog.
The current micro-trustees of The Awesome Foundation NYC chapter include:

Catherine White
Caterina Fake
Chris Dixon
Sam Lessin
Clay Shirky
Colin [...]

An eerily impressionistic and grainy photo of my Mumbo Jumbo Maracas performance at ITP NIME 2009 by Derek Chung.

The official photos from the ITP 30th Anniversary Gala are now online!  The Gala back in October celebrated 30 years of the Interactive Telecommunicationas Program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and raised money for the Red Burns Scholarship fund.  It was sort of like high school prom all over again, except [...]