{"id":9610,"date":"2007-06-27T00:07:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2007-06-27T00:07:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T00:07:20","slug":"giant-slug-like-biomass-machine-at-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9610","title":{"rendered":"Giant Slug-Like Biomass Machine at Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/mechabolic.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> One of the more interesting people I had the pleasure of meeting at Foo Camp was Jim Mason of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theshipyard.org\/\" target=\"new\">The Shipyard<\/a>, the brilliantly-mad Berkeley art and alternative energy space\/community (which was recently forced to vacate their premises and is now looking for donations to re-emerge bigger and more bad-ass, outside of Berkeley. Help out!). <\/p>\n<p> Anyhoo, at Camp, Jim was drumming up interest for The Mechabolic, a crazy-ass bio-fuel slug\/digestive system sculpture thingy that he and his cohort plan to build at &#8217;07 Burning Man. It&#8217;s &#8220;human anatomy meets hot rod fetishism,&#8221; er&#8230; or something like that. If you want to know more about &#8220;Team Metabolic&#8221; and their &#8220;burlesque of synthetic metabolism,&#8221; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/whatiamupto.com\/mechabolic\/index.html\" target=\"new\">the project&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> BTW: The wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gadgets\/mods\/multimedia\/2007\/06\/gallery_steampunk?currentPage=2&#038;slideView=2\" target=\"new\">Neverwas Haul<\/a>, featured in my recent Wired.com steampunk piece, was built at The Shipyard. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the more interesting people I had the pleasure of meeting at Foo Camp was Jim Mason of The Shipyard, the brilliantly-mad Berkeley art and alternative energy space\/community (which was recently forced to vacate their premises and is now looking for donations to re-emerge bigger and more bad-ass, outside of Berkeley. Help out!). Anyhoo, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Giant Slug-Like Biomass Machine at Burning Man&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}