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FLY Children’s Art Center to launch Fabulous Contraptions series with A2Awesome grant

By Mark | February 2, 2014

Earlier today the Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation awarded $1,000 in cash to representatives of Ypsilanti’s FLY Children’s Art Center to help fund the launch of a community-wide event called Fabulous Contraptions. After our meeting, I took the opportunity to ask FLY board members Christine Bruxvoort, Linette Lao and Morgan Cox (seen above after receiving their […]

Posted in A2Awesome, Ypsilanti | Also tagged A2Awesome, Ann Arbor Awesome Foundation, art, Caine's Arcade, Cardboard Contraptions, Education, engineering, FLY Children's Art Center, hands-on education, hristine Bruxvoort, Jesse Kranyak, Linette Lao, makers, math, micro-philanthropy, Morgan Cox, public education, Rube Goldberg, Ruth Marks, Science, Wurst Bar, Wurst Challenge | 4 Comments

What I might be doing at this summer’s Shadow Art Fair

By Mark | June 26, 2012

One of the good things about being among the handful of people behind the Shadow Art Fair is that I don’t have to apply. In exchange for the work that I do, I get a table automatically, and I have right up until the morning of the event to decide what it is that I […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Mark's Life, Shadow Art Fair, Uncategorized | Also tagged Be Interviewed by a Painfully Awkward Middle-Aged Man with OCD, beer drinking robots, building things from cardboard, confessionals, Corner brewery, face eating, Girls Gone Wild, interviews, interviews with Mark, last minute art projects, Mark's big ideas, regret, robots, Whitney Biennial | 17 Comments

How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart

By Mark | August 20, 2009

One week each year, in August, before the college students return, and while all of the cops are up north at their summer cottages, it’s safe for the punks to return to Ann Arbor. It’s called Punk Week, and it culminates with a big clandestine shopping cart race through downtown. Not wanting to bum any […]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture | Also tagged aerodynamics, Annamarie O'Brien, August, bending space and time, cake, collective losers, coming in last, concentrated Salvia, fashion outlaws, flashlights for eyes, Ford Escort, Hipsilanti, Ian Fulcher, Jen Scroggins, Jessica French, K-Mart, Kat Scott, loosers, Patrick Elkins, Punk Week, racing, shopping cart races, shopping carts, shopping carts made to look like sharks, slow wheeled sharks, spray paint, Stefan Krstovic, theft, when punks compete, wizards | 9 Comments

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FLY Children’s Art Center to launch Fabulous Contraptions series with A2Awesome grant

What I might be doing at this summer’s Shadow Art Fair

How to Build and Race a Losing Shopping Cart

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