Fwd: Big Allis
Ed Borden
From: Dan Selden <seld...@newschool.edu>
Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:04 PM
Subject: Big Allis
To: Ed Borden <Ed.B...@logmein.com>
Cc: Joe Saavedra <saav...@newschool.edu>
Took the opportunity to swing by Big Allis today. Interesting
neighborhood… and despite it being kind of shady, it was pretty
vibrant given the weather. The park right next store was hopping. Took
a few photos of the outside of the factory and then as I walked by the
main gate was stopped by security. They were chill but suggested I
obey the no-photograph sign and search on google images instead. In
any case, don't think I'm gonna make it to class tomorrow but I'll
start pulling together some research on Instructables and
Charge-circuits. I'll continue to think about graphic language as
well.
Looking forward to ecohack this weekend.
Dan
On Friday, April 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Ed Borden wrote:
Just FYI, i've moved this thread over to the google group now.
From: Dan Selden [mailto:seld...@newschool.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 4:25 PM
To: Ed Borden
Cc: ryba...@newschool.edu; Joe Saavedra; natalie jeremijenko
Subject: Re: Energy Project
Sounds great. Super psyched to get on board. I'll take a stab at some
graphics in the next couple of days.
-Any ideas on a name for the project?
-Do we want a separate project blog as well?
LI City is like 10minutes away by subway… should be easy enough to pop
over there and snap some photos at the end of class.
Dan
On Wednesday, April 4, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Ed Borden wrote:
Dan, Galina, NatJ, Joe --
Joe and I were realizing just now how behind we are on making this
project happen. But, have no fear, we are in the business of making
shit happen.
I want you guys to know that both Joe and I consider this project to
have massive potential. We are talking about redefining the basic
infrastructure of freaking civilization. It might look like our method
is small at this point, but the idea is HUGE. This is a GREAT place to
be. We will be 100% carrying this project on after the class is over.
I believe we will end up with a kickstarter campaign at some point to
distribute the power generation kits.
I also just wanted to confirm with you both that this is the project you
want to work on. I know you both are involved to some degree with the
bike project, so I just want to make sure you can make an adequate
commitment, because we will definitely be depending on you if you are in.
Here's the description I wrote a while back:
"We will build the mechanism whereby shared citizen-owned power
generators will create a localized DC hub that can power residents'
"digital lifestyles". Residents of a single building will consume power
from 3 harvested energy sources (wind, water, solar). An online
interface will track residents' usage of the system and make a
carbon-footprint comparison against centralized coal power sources. We
are telling the story of a top-down, centralized energy system versus a
bottom-up decentralized, citizen-owned energy system.
"
Target User Group:
"Long Island City. Asthma Alley. Home to NYC's food production
(bakeries) center and major power facility (Big Allis).
"
Between now and the end of class on Tuesday, I want to get really
organized and flesh out the story. Joe is going to be working on the
technical portion for the time being. The 3 of us will be working on
generating assets so that we all understand what this is and how the
system works. So, we need an expanded text and some basic
graphics/pictorials of how it will work. We are also going to
immediately start building a community around this project. I will plan
to blog about it on the pachube blog very soon so we can get the word
out a bit.
Does anyone know how long it takes to get to LI City? How do you feel
about taking the last 90 minutes of class and going on a field trip? We
can take pictures and use them as additional assets for talking about
the project.
Ask questions!!!
--
Ed Borden
Evangelist @ Pachube
973.404.0467 (US)
skype:borden.edward
@edborden