Workshops

In the spirit of sharing and collaboration, we are going to run a track of workshops.

Add workshops you are willing to give on creative topics such as:

• Internet and computing
• Cool stuff
• Hack (white hat only !) google, amazon, ebay or other popular sites
• Travel
• Art: photography, 3D, crafts , cooking, wellbeing, 

 

And add your name to workshops you want to join below.

 

DIY Robotics for Absolute Beginers

Build a remote controlled robot using popsickle sticks (maklot artic) then add a brain (Arduino) and give it a mind of its own

We've been teaching art and technology to children, and we've developed a number of simple projects designed to illustrate basic concepts in easy-to-understand ways. I always like to leave the children with something they can take home, so an additional challenge is to use extremely inexpensive parts. I've recently developed a simple robot project and I'd like to test it out on you. Yes, you can take it home. No, there won't be a test.

 

Host: Teach Me to Make (Michael Shiloh and Judy Castro) and Xippy the robot

Interested? Please sign up so I know how many to bring. Last minute? It's ok; I'll bring some extra:

Robotics for children? Sign me up...nicholas kim

 

 

 helping people to visualize their ideas and dreams.

intro to stock photography

 a picture still Worth's so much than a thousand words ..or a video clip :)

due to cool new cameras and available editing tools and courses many of us became amature photographers and enjoy it much!

now , lets say that out of 100 photos you take there are few that actually have a commercial value ...and lets also say that somewhere on the other side of the world there is an ad agency or an art buyer that is looking for the exact same photo you just took !

join us to the intro to stock photography workshop to learn what are the available options and business models out there , how to properly manage your stock collections , and how nowadays people are making passive income from their own habit while helping other people to visualize their ideas and dreams.

 

host:  Eyal Gura   

interested?  .....

 

WikiHaikuProce55ing

dream in structure, color, and collaboration

 This workshop will teach the interested how to make their visual dreams come true, using the world's only truly visual programming language: proce55ing. We will then collaboratively write haikus, wiki-style, and make them come to life as short visual statements, which we will exhibit to the rest of KinnernetUSA. 

 To sign up add your name in the yellow box:

Edo Amin,

Guy Ross Yael Sahar (I have no idea how this box became white:) )   Michael Shiloh (And now it is yellow again!) Steve Greenberg Nicholas KIm

The User Experience Designer's Toolbox

Do you design UI/UX? What UX/UI design tools do you use? 

 

Would you be willing to demonstrate one or two of your tools for 15-30 minutes?

We're interested, whether you're using dedicated UX/UI design tools or good ol' Visio and Photoshop.

Even if we won't have lots of observers, at least we'll have a UI design chat.

 

Demonstrators:

Edo Amin, Yael Sahar, Jay Meydad

Participants:

"Back to the Future"

A Brainstorming Session to discuss the future of today's prominent New Media Players (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.).

Participants will team up to a number of "Boards". Each Board will simulate a futuristic Board disucssion of those Players.

 

Hosts: Tuvia Rosenthal & Eyal Keren

Suggestions, Registration, etc. : tuvia@meezoog.com , ekeren1@gmail.com

 

Edo Amin (Interested to be on the board of Google)

 

 

"Broadcasting Live"

Experience the tools that allow anyone to broadcast live video on the internet.  You can have use one camera, two cameras, a webcam, incorporate remote video reports, engage viewers in a chat room, broadcast live from a cellphone.

 We'll come up with a show idea, choose a platform, and go live. 

Tools we can choose from, but are not limited to, include Ustream, Mogulus, Wirecast, Procaster, Qik...

 Signup and join the show.  We might do this session both days. 

 

Host:

Steve Garfield

 

 Participants:

Juliette Powell, geo geller, Bre Pettis

 

ViZualPoetry & Art of the Documentary

moving/still/audio/ image-making incorporating the art of listening & seeing

by geo geller

 

"a good talker is a better listener" geo geller

"taking photographs is like making love" henri cartier-bresson - and i add "you have to love the people you are filming/photographing/recording etc.." if you don't love them it will show

 

as a ViZual Poet and ever a student of life and moving/still/audio image-maker i have been thinking/exploring how we experience (among other things mostly Linear) and are going to experience media in the future (among other things maybe NonLinearly) -  we will first looking at some tools i use and how i use them, camera, audio, including my own invention, an off-shoot of a steady cam among other physical, psychological, framing (vizual poetry) and making sure you got your audio (you edit towards audio - you can live with good audio and bad images but not the other way around)... we will look at low light and no light situations, and other technical approaches and if that isn't enough we have to be sharp and insightful and carry on a conversations - so i will share what i have learned about approaching and engaging total stranger on the street in a conversations about things you are thinking about - albert maysles calls it getting close - which pretty well sums it up.... being a documentary image maker is like making love you have to be comfortable, inviting, open, trusting and read people especially when they have had their full too... had enough

 

...more important then the equipment we will talk about the idea/passion driving me/you, being prepared both physically and mentally...  we will talk about understanding our relationship to what we are doing, why we are doing it and how we do it -  incorporating the art of listening & seeing and conVERSING vs interviewing, and many people make documentaries because they have an agenda, everybody has a point of view even if you don't know what it is - some people put their words in peoples mouths to get them to say what they want to say - come to think of it, i have done that rarely myself - when i was able to get people to say "they learned about love from animals and being human from dogs" for a doc in progress "Self-Portrait of YOU-manity"  personally i prefer to let people speak for themselves and give them time to think on camera - its not the question you ask as much as what they say afterwards it's much more interesting - so fight turning your camera off is something i tell people -  and as always we will be in search of those moments beyond the usual... 

 

creativity is having an open mind and as an artist/inventor/image-makers the most important thing is having an open mind  - i will show some examples including some 30-60 second baby-docs excerpted from conversation with albert maysles and others, some NonLinear/Random experiments,  and what i believe, ways we might experience media in the future and talk about some projects - all this with a sense of humor while standing on one foot :-)... there will be a test to see if you can remember what i didn't say

 

contortionist - geo geller

 

confabulate-ist - Participants

 

Good Mistakes - Spirit/Art of Invention & Making Your Life an Art/Invention

Test your risk tolerance

combined workshop/discussion by geo geller

 

since invention/life is about risk and often about our risk tolerance - the greater the risk the greater the returns - with that i have added a little segment  a test to test your/our/my risk tolerance too - be prepared to be unprepared

 

my definition of invention - invention is seeing the obvious that nobody sees

in the early 1990's i was threatening to give a talk/workshop at Princeton Uni-verse-city engineering school and other schools on the spirit of invention and good mistakes so i will do this finally as a combined discussion/workshop, since i have the feeling there are a lot of us who are interested in invention at Kinnernet

 

the discussion/workshop will be on some of my experiences & insights from an un-book called a Good Mistake - the Spirit/Art of Invention & making your life an art/invention - that i am not writing because it would be a mistake to write it -  food for your imagination

 

the discussion/workshop will be an open conversation exploring invention, the uncertainty principle, thought process behind the mind (my mind & maybe your mind too), invention as a state of mind, the tradeoffs of being passionate and being an inventor, when to let go of an idea, thinking, thinking too big to small, not thinking at all, my experience with patents (see below) and patents vs no-patents vs patience or being a patient (being seduced by your imagination, pygmalion syndrome), commercialization, open sourcing your mind, training your mind muscle,  following your dreams, suspending your mind/pre-conceptions,synchronicity of inventions -  the worst of all things for an inventor is whenever everything works fine you wonder what you missed syndrome - and after all is said i will unveil a few of my inventions never before seen and if you want to bring your own we will attempt to dissect them and the mind behind them -  - and hopefully make some good mistakes and enjoy ourselves wondering about wonder

 

in 1987 i was finally* issued a USA patent for a textile process for softening denim - a stone washing like process - that my partners Cotton inc and Burlington Industries (the largest textile mill in the world at the time) thought would revolutionize the textile industry - Burlington built the largest and most expensive textile machine in the history of the industry and according to my patent law firm was unique in many ways but most remarkable for them was that burlington industries built the machine and commercialized the process before the patent was officially issued - (by finally - my patent law firm Ladas & Parry (largest patent law firm in world) and i had to wait for the patent officer to retire before the patent office supervisor personally called to say he didn't know why the examiner didn't issue me a patent but he was going to)  - geo@GoodMistake.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dynamic Painting

I really wanted to create paintings with kind of “aliveness” arising from them, and decided to take this opportunity for a little exploratory workshop.

I intend to combine paint and “hanged” fluids on a canvas.

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You should bring: small canvases, paintbrushes, oil colors, metals and magnetic add-ons to the “painting”.

I will have a couple of each too �some ferromagnetic fluid (- leftovers from geekcon :-) that will hopefully last for a few of us.

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Arnon Yaar

arnon@telething.com

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The Art of the Ollie

Skateboarding Is Not a Crime! A "Learn to Ollie" workshop.

Oren Zuckerman�and Rafael Mizrahi

If you're a skateboarder (or more relevant to us - was a skateboarder), bring on your boards, shoes, shirts (Vans/Vision/Airwalk ?), and lets celebrate the good old Bones Brigade days (and the first video below if for you).

If you're new to skateboarding, join us and learn the art of the Ollie, the essential skateboarding trick of them all (and the second video below is for you).

Interested? let me know at orenz@media.mit.edu

The original "Bones Brigade Video Show" video, part 1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X9iROyjYnU

How to Ollie:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3cJG6torT8&feature=related

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Phone App Development for the rest of us! --> Python for Series 60

Amnon Dekel�

Python is a very powerful but also a very easy language to learn. Many big players use it in the back end (Google included). Over the last� 2 years a new and powerful version of Python has been developed and released by Nokia that enables anyone to develop apps for Symbian Series 60 Phones in a very easy and quick fashion.�

This workshop will show how easy it is to develop a mobile phone app using this technology and will show examples and tutorials for those who want more.� I will bring 2 phones to play with, but anyone with a Nokia S60 phone is welcome to come and install the environment and play with it.

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Extreme Balloon Art Workshop

Join the extreme Balloon Art workshop! If we would have enough people, we might be able to build a dangerous balloon dinosaur!!!

Anyway, I'm sure you'll enjoy each and every minute making balloons with me. I'm a chienese/Iraninan bald scary balloon mentor, raised in the ancient archipelago of Okinawa.

Either way, these aren't the balloons you all know...

Hope to have your lungs with us

Barak Dagan

Balloon Artist

Develop consumer electronics with BUG and its snapon modules - Saturday at 9:30 in Underground

This cigarette pack size Linux box has GPS, Camera, accelerometer/motinon detector and LCD snapons available now.  More coming soon - and a great SDK - all open source incluing virtual bug. This workshop's on the SDK.

 

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Robotic Drum Circle��Jam�

Join us, and�play music (bring your own instrument) together with the automated drums.  Write a score for the drums, or just play along, with these ass kick'n machines .

 

interested

Just check out for the sceduale and join us on the spo

Results are planed to be shown (played live)  on the Grand Finalevideo: http://www.roth-tevet.com/video/drums2.MPG �

Make Play Day - create contraptions from junk by Michael Shiloh

A version of the popular workshop presented at MAKE Magazine's Maker Faire

In this workshop you will take apart discarded electrical or electronic devices such as printers, tape recorders, elevator controllers, or automatic coffee makers. You will then construct a new contraption out of the salvaged parts. I can help you make motors turn and lights light up, but it's fine to make a static creation as well. You are encouraged to bring items that can be disassembled and recycled as new creations, made by you.

No prior skill is needed - I have been teaching children and adults how to do this for years.

If you have any computer interfaces for arbitrary electronics (e.g. MAKE Controller Kit, Teleo, Arduino, Phidgets), bring them along and we can control the contraptions via some clever program.

Interested? Please let me know so I can plan:

Please email me at michael at michaelshiloh dot com if you are interested in this workshop.

I need your help now, before camp:

We need discarded electronic and electro-mechanical devices of any sort, and any discarded items like ice cream sticks, bottle caps, pieces of wire or plastic, any scrap or surplus indistrial items you can find. I will be arriving from the USA and have no way to collect or transport these to Kinnernet, so I need help from locals in gathering and bringing these supplies. Please email me at michael at michaelshiloh dot com.

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For many more examples, search flickr for "make play day".

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Star Geek Academy

Wish you were able to rock the dance floor? Want to learn the basic 1,2,3 of Salsa? Come and join this group for an hour every day and impress yourself and your geek friends in the extravaganza with your new moves. Easier than you think!

Sign up- just do it! gisiger@unhcr.org

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Drum Circle

If you feel you have the beat, join our Drum Circle on Friday at 17:30 on the beach. You don't have to be a musician, just need a good sense of rhythm.. If you have drums bring them with you, but even if you don't, we'll have plenty available. Initiated by Giory Politi. More details on the music page.

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Humanation – creating animation with, by and about people

 

Love animation? Would like to make your own short animated film?

Join Uri Shinar and Rony Oren at the workshop that was a huge success at the WPP camp.

In this workshop we will create animations using the Stop Motion technique.

With theMicro - Smotion, the human body will be the animated object,

it will become a participant in the workshop and the location of the animation is the environment in which it is made.

Special effects like hovering, quantum leaps or becoming a human cannon are possible using the Micro - Smotion.

When we are done, we will have produced incredibly funny animation clips which can be sent as gif files over the internet.

We will work in teams of 3-4 people, a laptop and a webcam are required.

 

 

Real-time Social Networking with Jeff Pulver

Jeff Pulver

I often spends time putting together hundreds of “Personal Social Networking Toolkits” seen in the pictures above.

You might be wondering why anyone would spend what has amounted to hours placing stickers, name badges, post-it notes and pens into ziplock bags preparing for a breakfast they are hosting. Me too. But I do this to prepare for the breakfasts he hosts because he recently discovered a way to make business networking events a truly fun experience.

I am someone who believes that the more virtual we become the more we need to have face to face meetings. So at the breakfasts I have been hosting, I have taken some concepts from social media which we typically experience when we are online and have brought the concepts to real life.

The moment my guests write their “personal tag line” on their name badges, they are ready to take place in a unique face-to-face social networking experience. An experience where guests use the stickers in the “Personal Social Networking Toolkits” to tag other guests. These tags are placed on each person’s “personal tag cloud.” And where guests take the supplied mini post-it notes to "write" on the walls of each of our guests.

Join me in a workshop about Real-time Social Networking where we will learn about moving from the virtual world to the real.

Here is an example of what some time happens in one of my events:

 

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My Robot is a real Animal !

Shai Abramson, Roostam Tiger (we are looking for an art director for this workshop !)

 

A robotic lawnmower turned into an animal wondering in the garden.

Before :

 

 

After :

 

 

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Af/Ozen/Garon/Lashon workshop

In a dark room we will taste interesting food, drinks and music.

There will be limited seats in the workshop, so please, upon coming to kinnernet, register in the paper we will put for that.

Date: Friday at 14:00. Room: to be publish soon

Hosts: Rafram Chaddad and Ariel Qassis

 

Water-drop Photography Workshop

Host: Tal Givoly

 

Mask Workshop

Join the Mask preparation Workshop: A professional team will work with you to create a personalized

custom made limited addition mask!

You'll get materials, tools and templates and some really fun ideas.

For those folks who want to look, ummmm, strange unique, yeah, that’s the word:  unique…special… for the

Friday Gala Ball, starting from Friday dinner and all night long ...

The workshop begins at 11am Friday morning at Piven art room.

Host: Eyal Gever and Roy Klieger

 

 

All about Burning Man

 

Burning man is a temporary city of 50,000 creative people built in the desert at the end of August.  Many Kinnernim go (even Yossi's gone) for an experience unlike any other on Earth.    Learn about it, the type of art people do there, and whether you should go.  See pictures and hear stories and ask questions.

 

Leader: Brad Templeton

 

Mens Sana In Corpore Sano

How to increase your energy by eating 'alive' food and shaping your key body parts:

- Increase your daily and long-term productivity

- productivity = fuel * energy

- fresh veggies and juices

- core stability programs

 

Leader: Jan Pinteric