Movie Night @ NextFab

Mark your calendars, it’s almost time for Movie Night at NextFab Studio. Up on the big screen, the 1986 sci-fi/comedy Short Circuit.  This is a family friendly event. For more information and an to reserve your ‘seat’  go HERE
“Short Circuit”
Thu Aug 5, 7pm –  9pm
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NextFab Studio, 3711 Market St, Ground Floor

YES Program Partnership Update

We recently posted about our partnership with the The Enterprise Center (HERE).  Breadboard, NextFab Studio and The Enterprise Center have co-developed a hybrid program that mixes business and entrepreneurship training with creative design and fabrication workshops. Below are a few images from today’s session where Philadelphia high school students from TEC’s YES program are getting hands-on experience, instruction and creative opportunities working with NextFab Studio resources.

Seth (above)  is one of the YES students in our program. He’s working with Lewis Colburn (NextFab project manager) and learning how to scan his hand rendered drawings into digital files.  Once the scanning process is complete Seth opens his files in Photoshop to manipulate line quality and then uses Illustrator to add color.  It’s the digital version of penciling and inking for those familiar with traditional comic book production. Seth is working with the YES program to develop a business plan around his interest in drawing and comic books.

Randel (below) is interested in developing a business model for the production and sale of electronic motorcycles.  Below Evan Malone (NextFab Studio founder) works with Randel in NextFab’s electronics room and goes over some information about  magnetic fields.

NextFab Photo-tour

Robert Baruch, a new member at NextFab Studio posted a nice photo-tour of all the ALL at nextFab Studio on his blog, The Half-Baked Maker.

the leak in your hometown

this is a great example of culture jamming and while we are on the topic of Augmented Reality,  Breadboard is working with VPAP on a Philly project that will give 8 local artists a chance to create
there own virtual art work and use it to tag locations around town. A new kind of
site-specific…

read more about the project here: the leak in your hometown

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Flickr FutureEverything Philadelphia

Drew Hemment speaking @ NextFab Studio

Drew Hemment spoke to a full house at NextFab Studio on Friday night’s event. Breadboard, along with the mCenter@Drexel and NextFab Studio will work with Drew in hopes of adding Philadelphia to an international list of partner cities involved with FutureEverything initiatives in 2011. Flickr photo stream HERE

Deadlines for Art in the Air 2010

Rachele Riley, PECO simulation

Updated information and the submission deadlines for the Art in the Air digital public art initiative are up. Regional artists (PA, NJ, DE) working with digital media are encouraged to submit work for review and possible deplay on PECO’s Crown Lights Tower. Click HERE for details.

Youth + Entrepreneurship = Success

YES students at NextFab Studio

Breadboard and NextFab Studio are excited to announce our first youth outreach project in partnership with The Enterprise Center‘s Youth + Entrepreneurship = Success (YES) program.

Four students enrolled in the YES program’s summer Business Boot Camp will spend July/August taking part in a hybrid program that mixes business and entrepreneurship training with creative design and fabrication workshops at NextFab Studio.  YES students will learn new skills using digital technology and tools while working to design and prototype an original product line in support of their business plan.

Beyond The Welding Hour Parts I and II

If you aren’t attending Breadboard’s FutureEverything event on Friday go see this.  It features No Carrier and VBLANK, two of the artists selected for the past July 4 launch of Breadboards’s Art in the Air project with PECO.

Beyond The Welding Hour, a two night concert featuring chiptune and circuitbending artists from Philadelphia and New York, takes place July 16 and 17 at the Video Temple space on the expo floor during The Next HOPE in NYC.

Sold Out

Not that we were charging but tickets for Friday night’s event, a talk with Drew Hemment of FutureEverything and ImaginationLancaster are sold out.

Drew Hemment reblogs @ Eyebeam


Beginning today, Drew Hemment will be the guest reblogger at Eyebeam where he is a visiting resident for a week in July. Drew will be visiting Philadelphia on Friday (June 16) to give a talk at Breadboard/NextFab Studio.