April 2010
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March 2010
3 posts
Boston March Fellow: DIY Bioengineered Inks
Things have been quiet from Boston for a little bit: we’ve been swamped readying the new, improved, and expanded Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences website — and been repping it up at conferences and the like. But, to all those who have been asking, yes, yes, we’re still in business.
Extremely proud today to announce that our March Awesome Fellow is Charles Fracchia...
Providence Chapter February Awesome Foundation...
The Providence Chapter of the Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences has selected Matt Grigsby to receive its February award. Grigsby will use the Awesome Foundation Grant to create a “Materials PettingZoo” showcasing textile, industrial, consumer products and residential construction materials that offer ecologically sensible solutions to more traditional products.
Moving beyond...
AF-NYC's Second Award - The Anywhere Organ
Congratulations to Matthew Borgatti and his Anywhere Organ! AF-NYC loved his idea as much as bagels, coffee and bialys (and more). We kept our second award choice a surprise until last night’s second AF-NYC party at Zeitzeff in the LES, which was packed full of NYC’s most super, Awesome people.
M@ and his AF Award (picture @magnify)
Here’s M@’s original application:
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February 2010
2 posts
Providence Chapter Brings Cash (and Chutzpah) to...
The Providence Chapter of the Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences has selected Steph Burbridge to receive its January award. Burbridge will use the Awesome Foundation Grant to create a mobile “trivia for cash” game in downtown Providence, an idea that borrows inspiration from a popular television show airing on the Discovery channel.
Burbridge’s plan is a playful marriage of daft fun...
Awesome NYC Launch Party
Awesome NY have made their first selection! It was tough NY - you completely blew us away with amazing incredibly brilliant ideas. We are awarding January’s $1000 grant to Ben Dubin-Thaler’s Cell Motion BioBus. Come celebrate with us at the First AF-NY Award Ceremony on Monday February 8 at 8 pm, at the Apple Bar, 17 Waverly at Greene (no cover, cash bar). Join us for a beer and meet the NY...
January 2010
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New York Makes First Award: A BIG LASER!
Awesome NY have made their first selection! It was tough NY - you completely blew us away with amazing incredibly brilliant ideas. But - this month, for our inaugural grant, we’ve picked a LASER TWEEZER that makes amoebas eat bacteria. Awesomeness to the MAX. No - really, its a laser tractor beam that prods amoebas. We’ve awarded January’s $1000 grant to Ben...
December Fellow Talk (Boston): "Tools for Improved...
Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences and dorkbot-boston Present:
Lauren McCarthy: Tools for Improved Social Interacting
http://lauren-mccarthy.com/socialinteracting/
Talk and Reception FREE EVENT Fri, Jan 15, 7-9PM sprout - 339R Summer St, Somerville
Directions:
Talk at sprout’s offices which are at 339R Summer Street just outside of Davis Square in Somerville, MA. It’s set back...
Providence Chapter Makes Music With Inaugural...
The Providence Chapter of the Awesome Foundation for Arts and Sciences is psyched to announce that Otto D’Ambrosio of D’Ambrosio Guitars has received the chapter’s first award. D’Ambrosio will take his $1,000 and complete a functional, four-foot replica of the renowned hollow body guitars the Rhode Island-based craftsman builds for musicians across the U.S. This time, the rare wood and antique...
Hello, New York!
Happy New Year! The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is thrilled today to kick off 2010 by announcing that we are officially launching a new chapter of the Foundation in New York City.
Additionally, we’re honored and seriously pumped to be welcoming a simply stellar cast of micro-trustees steering this project and forwarding the interest of awesome in the universe, including:
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December 2009
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Boston Fans: A Dean of Awesome Is Needed!
Based in Boston and want to be involved the Awesome Foundation?
Want to participate as a micro-trustee to the Awesome Foundation but don’t have the money?
Want to serve the interest of promoting and protecting Awesomeness in the universe?
Well, now you can! I’m glad to announce today that the Boston Awesome Foundation is seeking a Dean of Awesome to team up with our existing...
Boston December Awesome Fellow: Lauren McCarthy
I’m happy to announce that Awesome Foundation Boston has chosen its December Fellow! This month’s grant goes to Lauren McCarthy, who specializes in the development of Tools for Improved Social Interacting.
What does that imply? Lauren writes, she’s working on a series of “various wearable devices that use simple technologies to condition the behavior of the wearer to fit...
November 2009
2 posts
Updates on the Eco Pod Armada!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Excited (and thankful for the emerging awesomeness): The Boston Awesome Foundation has just got word from Lee Altman, our November Fellow, that she’s made an initial experimental pilot launch of the pollution-cleaning phytoremediation pod in Brooklyn Bridge Park.
As with most experiments, still some details to be worked out, but things are coming along. The tentative...
Boston November Awesome Fellowship: Cleaning The...
Sorry for the delay, this month’s granting process ended up taking slightly longer than originally expected, but, for reasons that will become obvious in a few weeks, we’ve been swamped, cooking up some upcoming things that will hopefully do well by forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe. It’s gonna be great. Stay tuned.
Today, Awesome Foundation Boston is...
October 2009
3 posts
Welcome, Awesome Foundation Providence!
The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences has been talking for some time now about expanding and opening up chapters in different locales and specialized in different arenas. Many of you have gotten in touch, and we’ve been thrilled by all the people volunteering — but we’ve to date held off, getting the formula right, and figuring out how to start building outwards.
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October Fellowship Awards Party
Hey there! As per usual, we’re having an awards ceremony/party this coming weekend. Won’t you join us?
Thx,
Mgmt.
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***NOTE: THIS EVENT IS IN A DIFFERENT LOCATION THAN IT USUALLY IS*** The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences and The Information Superhighway Cordially Invite You To… COTTON CANDY...
October Awesome Fellowship: The Cotton Candy...
This mean-looking badboy is the brainchild of Josh Gordonson, close to a decade in the making. It is, indeed, the first working prototype of a rugged cannon that deploys an entirely new kind of ammunition. One that is likely to change the face of battlefields and fairgrounds forever.
Specifically, it shoots cotton candy.
This is huge, people. Absolutely huge.
The Awesome Foundation for the...
September 2009
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The September Awesome Grant: Forty Days of Dataviz
This month’s Awesome Fellowship goes to Greg Kapfhammer, whose project is to hold a forty day data visualization contest, what he calls the Forty Day Visual Feast Project. Prizes to include a good deal of cold hard cash as well as quality large-scale reproductions of the winner’s visualizations.
So get to reading Flowing Data again, get your Processing dusted off, and your volumes...
August 2009
2 posts
Inaugural Grant Winner: The Big Hammock
The Awesome Foundation is extremely proud to award its first ever grant to Hansy Better Barraza, professor at Rhode Island School of Design and all around architect extraordinaire. Based on her interest in “bringing people together through design of public art and objects”, Hansy plans to design and build a huge hammock in Boston Common.
The Awesome Foundation and Information...
Welcome to the Awesome Foundation
Founded in June 2009, The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences awards $1,000 grants monthly to projects that advance the interest of Awesomeness in our universe. There are no requirements for applying, no definite criteria for deciding the winner, and no limitations beyond the necessity for being awesome. Winners receive the money in cash, check, or gold doubloons, no strings attached.
To...