DorkBoat
Yesterday there was a marvelous boat journey called Dorkboat organized by the Dorkbot London.
Dorkbot is a group of the people ” Doing strange things with electricity “ —— as their motto
suggests, it is the gathering of the people who is doing with electronics, electricity what so-ever
to show off or discuss what so-ever about their free-minded creation.
Naturally, some are purely digital electronics /
computer programmed graphics or music.
And some are involving kinetic mechanism with
electronic control.
As the group is completely open to anybody
some are doing it alongside of his or her profession
with profound expertise, but some 
time
utterly an outsider of electronics came up
with very witty approach of an invention.
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Me to join the group was, again a sheer coincidence.
Somebody a friend, happened to know the member
introduced me to the Dorkbot London as I’ve been
making a lots of funny kinetic sculptures and designing lots of electronic devices.
I liked their motto and my approach —– making the things which are utterly useless but fun,
was exactly matched and found a common ground.
Since then, virtually all of my public exposure such as to French TV, news paper or BBC
were happened with the Dorkbot. ( Gathering can be seen only for the members, which mean strict
Health and Safety Regulation which is always our headache, can be avoided )
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On the boat from Westminster Pier to Kew, we saw the presentation of many funny devices ——
” Mocking bird can be seen as a recording device (since they can repeat human words ! )” or
ever hilarious J.Rarson’s game controller, and some music performances etc etc.
It’s funny to think, the people who follow rigid and rational Physics and Electronics rules
still able to conceive such utterly useless nutty idea 😀 —– This is THE creativity.
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Event was coincided with the farewell award giving for the departure of one of the founder
Alex McLean / formidable experimental Programmer, as his family is moving out London.
I wish his family’s ever happier life in new location
and his creative projects to ever more flourish.
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Thank you very much, ——- though, I’m overloaded to deal with Email, Blog and
Youtube. I may not able to follow Twitter 🙂
I admire (and amazed) the people who manage all the social site and tweet every
10 minutes. 🙂
Incidentally, Greenman may upload some more photos somewhere as I gave them
to him —– so, watch the space somewhere 😀
Thanks for the kind words Yoshi! And for the really great photos. Take care
Before Internet, a far away person is in the week away distance (by snail mail).
But now, where ever the person, it is just a keyboard away.
Keep in touch. You and your family will be protected by the Dharma (like Dorkboat
did have good weather against the forecast / much better than the next day).
Wow! This can be 1 of the top blogs I’ve actually arrive throughout on this subject. Merely Magnificent
大好了。謝謝你。 To receive the encouraging words from the people where
Buddhism is a part of there embedded culture, gave a crucial mile stone to this Blog.
This blog is a kind of online experiment of the DIY Zen practice, and its resulting
psyche / psychological, physiological and social effects of factual reports.
In this aspects, this must be very rare report (probably first ever in the Buddhist’s history)
especially as it was done by an outsider of the religion / started without having any
preconceived belief or so-called faith . (In fact, it’s started more of the skepticism)
Thank you very much for your comment again.
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yeah my dad will like this
Good.
Remember this, because one day you will become more or less like your father. 🙂