I found this on Jo’s (aka superman) blog and couldn’t resist… who can resist a superhero quiz?

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 95% Green Lantern 90% Spider-Man 80% Hulk 75% Wonder Woman 73% Catwoman 65% Supergirl 63% The Flash 55% Superman 55% Batman 50% Robin 42%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

Click here to take the “Which Superhero are you?” quiz…

Cult of Risk Taking Self Portrait Photographers, let’s get the show on the road!

Being dead was fun, but we need simpler challenges to get the ball rolling.

I’ve been slack in getting checking back to the group discussion page and we need to be proactive… You want to post a new challenge? email it to everyone in the group, since I hardly check back to the discussion page.

Wanna join the group… Do these challenges, email me with a link to your flickr photos, and you’re in!

Here are some simple ones to get you rolling. These are playful… more dead pics later, right?

1. First Melissa’s reveal. You’ve got to reveal something in public. I’m going to take off my shoes in a busy place in the city here. What are you going to show?

2. Then take a picture of your fists… no other reason than i wanna see what i’m up against in a fist fight with each of you.

3. Then, I want you to take a picture of yourself squeezing someone’s tiny head… ideally a stranger and ideally with the help of a stranger. Get someone in the background and appear to pinch their head. This may be impossible, but its a challenge right?

4. Eating… I want to see pictures of everyone with food in their mouth. Bonus points for gross or beautiful pictures of food in your mouth.

5. Being in the air. Take a picture of yourself not touching the ground.

6. Can you appear to break the law? Notice how I made that into a question? No liability!

7. Be in a tree.

You don’t have to do these in order, just do them.

Bonus bonus bonus - Anyone who does them all in one week and posts them all by January 7th, I will personally buy you something stupid on ebay and have it shipped to you. No requests and you’ll have to take a picture of yourself with it!

You may know that I almost moved to San Francisco this year. I hemmed and hawwed for a while, but finally, I decided to stay in Seattle, on the condition that I would travel more.

I’m testing out the assertion that I can work from anywhere here in NYC and so far it’s good. I’ve been out with friends and seen a movie and actually done a bunch of work on my next video for Make:. I’m subletting a room in brooklyn for a reasonable amount and it’s got great wifi and very cozy and nice flatmates.

At Dave Winer’s Meetup, I met Noel, David, Sanford, Martin, James, John, and lots of other geek peeps. It was a hoot!

One of the conversations of the evening was about how the best conversations happen in the hallways of conferences. An unconference tries to deal with this. How can a group of people get together and talk in the hall without a conference? Ignite gets closer to being a place like this, since it gets people working on a project together which is a bonding activity. Playing werewolf is also pretty fun, but you don’t get to know the other players very well in that game.

I personally learn most in casual conversation. I am passionate about supporting creativity and in my interactions with people, I like to find out what they are working on, what barriers they have to achieving their goals, and I wonder about how they can make their dreams come true. I could spend every night meeting new people and learning about what gets their motors going.

So casual conversation is where I learn the most. What is the best way to get into regular conversations with new people and learn about what they are passionate about? And so now I’m curious, what strategies do you have in your life for encountering new people and uncovering their passion and enthusiasm? What kind of social gathering would nurture this? I’m tempted to invoke a salon model or a party model.

Were having another ignite in February and I’m going to be having a party sometime at the end of January if I can clean up my cluttered apartment when I get back from NYC… I look forward to hearing about what people are passionate about.

On a totally different topic, I’ve been thinking a lot about what being an innovative artist looks like for me. I’m ancy for a new art project and contemplating drawing, photography, but what’s calling me is working with a social network to create art. Got a project you’re working on that would take an entire community to pull off? I’m daydreaming these kind of things up right now.

If you are a in New York and wanna hang out, shoot me an email at bre@makezine.com and We’ll see what we can do. Are you on dodgeball? you can find me there too with username bre.

I’ve got a special holiday video message over at rocketboom this weekend. - Link

Here’s my vid that came out yesterday on Makezine.com.

Build a bridge out of popsicle sticks and hot glue and then stand on it! Will it hold your weight, or will it collapse and send shards of popsicle sticks flying? There’s only one way to find out, get yourself some popsicle sticks, warm up that hot glue gun, make a plan and build it!

Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything.

I’ve been without power since Thursday night… it’s cold in my apartment and only good for sleeping in. I’m afraid to open my fridge.

I went to the White party last night, check out the photos. - Link

This weekend, you’ll learn how to make a Minty Boost usb charger and a Daisy mp3 player. After you put these together you can put them into customized cases. I made my charger fit into a plastic dinosaur!

Then I soldered up my Daisy mp3 player and put it into a laser tag case, complete with working buttons on the gun that control volume. The trigger makes it go to the next track!

Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone!

You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube and revver or on the weekend projects page at your leisure! - Subscribe Link

Crossposted to the Make: Blog. - Link

Ok, Steve and Susan both tagged me on this. Here are five things you might not know about me.

1. I can cook a bit. I make green curry, miso stew, homemade pizza, and cookies from scratch without a recipe.
2. I once had a job being in a bunny suit. I was respected as the best bunny suit actor ever.
3. I believe in everything.
4. I had my early childhood in Ithaca, New York.
5. I’ve lived for more than 5 months at a time in the following foreign cities: Prague, London, Osaka, and L.A.

Who’s it? I tag Joe, Jay, Anastasia, Jo, and Kosso.

The time to send out cards for the holidays is here. Make them special by crafting your own. Here are three ideas for you to make your cards extra special. Woodblock prints look great and it’s surprisingly easy to make a lot of them. Aluminum relief cards look like they have been formed out of metal, but they are easy to make for those who can be patient enough to let glue dry. Finally, if you want to send a message made out of light, you can make long exposure photographs and write your message in the air.

Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone!

Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube at your leisure!

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Seattle geeks packed the house to build bridges out of popsicle sticks and hot glue at Seattle’s geek event, ignite. 13 teams basked in the glory of success or had their dreams crushed into tiny shards of wood as they stepped on their bridges and found out if their bridge would hold their weight. While the winners won the latest magazine, an amazing amount of applause was given to teams whose bridges were crushed. Hurray for destruction!

Props go out to the team that used 998 of the 1000 popsicle sticks allotted and managed to hold 5 people on their bridge. They brought an iron that they plugged in and turned upside down to heat up a makeshift aluminum foil pot of hot glue. Props also go out to the family that made the artistic bridge that managed to hold the 4 year old member of the team!

After the last bridge had survived crushed into the ground, Ask Later began. Moderated by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar, the audience was enthralled as the superstars of local start-upscreative innovators, scientists, hackers, puzzle-makers, and regular folks doing cool things managed to dump their brains into five minute power-point presentations.

Thanks to all the Make: and Craft: peeps who came out to have a great time, I look forward to seeing you all again at the next ignite in February. [My photoset] [Scott Beale's Photoset]

Crossposted to makezine and igniteseattle

Those of you who know me personally, know that I have a Macbook Pro that I use to it’s maximum capacity every day.

It’s gone for 5-7 days. The battery expanded and popped the back cover and the screen has nasty blobby spots that are not appropriate for a person who’s job is to make video and photos.