The 5 + 5 event was really fun. Great turnout and great energy. Thanks to all who participated by speaking, prepping, watching, and helping spread the word. If you liked it, email me. To get in the loop on our events you can follow me on Twitter. You can also follow kwartzlab.
 
Photos by me and Ed Maste (thanks Ed!)
 

More after the break...
 

 
Our speakers: here's Gus talking about his experiment hanging art in kwartzlab
 

 
Standing room only, the crowd spilled around the corner into the lounge.
 

 
Then Denise Strong, our friend from Behind the Red Door Studio (just upstairs), talked about her amazing... cement pieces.
 

 
The pictures don't do it justice. Denise's work just seems to float and has the most beautiful detail, belying their cement and wire-mesh skeletons.
 

 
And the work comes in all kinds of forms.
 

 
Then James Bastow talked about his design and build...
 

 
of the kwartzlab RFID access system.
 

 
wowing the crowd...
 

 
with his fly-wiring kung fu. We'll use James' system for door access and power-tool lockout at the lab.
 

 
Next up was Cathy Farwell, our friend and neighbour from upstairs, took the stage...
 

 
to talk about her work on copper, and the process she developed. These corroded copper plates she makes and uses as a "canvas" really blow my hair back.
 

 
Thanks to Cathy's husband, Roger Farwell (at left), for helping bring all this stuff downstairs to our lab.
 

 
Alex Williams dazzled the crowd with his software and explorations with...
 

 
different musical...
 

 
scales.
 

 
Hey, there's Seth Hardy, all the way from T.O.
 

 
We took a short break... (Ernest and Melissa)
 

 
to chat (Amy, Richard, Hilary, Paul, Karl back to us)
 

 
meet (Chad and Jonathan)...
 

 
and stretch our legs (Gordon and ?)
 

 
Denise talking to Lauren from the Maven Project
 

 
Joey, James, and Bevan hanging...
 

 
Gus and Cathy chatting.
 

 
? and Kevin.
 

 
No pictures please! ;-) (Marcel)
 

 
Thanks to Ed Maste for half of these photos. Ed's got my back!
 

 
Dave White's in the house, my brother from the very same mother.
 

 
Starting up again, Jack Jackowetz talked...
 

 
about his work that is currently hanging at kwartzlab. Enhanced-reality photography. Powerful.
 

 
I got to chat about my animeyes project. I get pretty animated myself talking about the work. Go strawlenoid!
 

 
Sarah Kernohan dazzled us...
 

 
with an old-school overhead showing...
 

 
of her drawings, and the process of making them.
 

 
Our Karl Williams jumped in with his robots.
 

 
Demo! Karl's a great blend of artist/engineer/maker.
 

 
Dave White! talks about...
 

 
his work...
 

 
with found objects. Gold army men raid the nest!
 

 
And after the scheduled talks, then the real experiment... (DW and Marcel)
 

 
of mixing up this crowd... (Paul and Sarah)
 

 
began, with conversations... (Denise, Dinh, and Jack)
 

 
and closer looks... (Cathy's piece)
 

 
looks... (Kevin) (Dave's piece)
 

 
at... (James' work)
 

 
the... (Denise's)
 

 
work. (my piece, animeyes) And yes, it did blink, a little, but it did actually blink.
 

Happy making,
DW