In 2009 I created two sets of retro styled rayguns.  One went to the Fuller Craft Museum and the other was installed in the Raygun Gothic Rocketship.  I've posted a gallery of images from the construction process to my new Polymer Clay Beads facebook page...

The Raygun Gothic Rocketship is landing at Maker Faire this weekend, May 22nd and 23rd!  Get your tickets here. Visit the world's largest maker event, marvel at the incredible intersection it illustrates between art, science, and engineering and don't miss the chance to tour...

I've been searching the universe for out  of this world visual inspiration, and I've found a solid gold planet's worth.  Italian Fabio Femino's web archive is f'ing full of futurism.  From pulp novels to magazine cover's to official space agency illustrations, he's got it all--page after page after f'ing page. It's where fact meets theory meets art: paulman-copy Where the sublime and frightening beauty of outer space meets action, adventure, and stylish spacesuits: [gallery type="rectangular" size="medium" ids="1695,1687"] Only among lustrous tomes like this 1926 Amazing Stories will you find the likes of H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Edgar Allen Poe all sharing a cover with ice skating space monkeys of Titan: PAUL6-copy Did I mention skin tight space suits?

It's that time again folks.  The makers that brought you the Steampunk Treehouse have been busy imagineering.  An incredible community was built around the construction of this piece of art and now it's time for us to build something new. Something big.  Something sleek and...