DJ CAM - Swim

The Devil Makes Three 2011 Spring/Summer Tour

The Devil Makes Three returns to the West Coast and announce the recording of a new live album over two nights in Petaluma and a very special show in Pozo, CA opening for country legend Dwight Yoakam.

The Devil Makes Three's true power must be experienced live - check out the bands' appearance on the first season of the successful IFC series Dinner With the Band, four live songs on the always great Daytrotter and "Aces and Twos" - the lovely black & white video created from still photographs.

Check out The Devil Makes Three doing The Allman Brothers classic "Statesboro Blues"

The Devil Makes Three Live

Apr 21 - Harlow's - Sacramento, CA
Apr 22 - Arcata Community Center - Arcata, CA
Apr 23 - WOW Hall - Eugene, OR
Apr 24 - Wonder Ballroom - Portland, OR
Apr 27 - Crown Room @ Crystal Bay Club Casino - Crystal Bay, NV
Apr 28 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
Apr 29 - The Catalyst - Santa Cruz, CA
Apr 30 - Pozo Salon - Pozo, CA

w/ Dwight Yoakam

May 1 - Cellar Door - Visalia, CA
May 5 - Caspar Inn - Caspar, CA
May 6 - Mystic Theater - Petaluma, CA
Recorded for DM3 live record

May 7 - NPR West Coast Live - San Francisco, CA
May 7 - Mystic Theater - Petaluma, CA

Recorded for DM3 live record

May 8 - Domino Room - Bend, OR
May 9 - The Bouquet - Boise, ID
May 10 - The Top Hat - Missoula, MT

May 11 - Emerson Cultural Center - Bozeman, MT
May 13 - Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN
May 15 - The Beat Kitchen - Chicago, IL
May 16 - Woodlands Tavern - Columbus, OH
May 17 - The Lizard Lounge - Lancaster, PA
May 18 -Maxwell's - Hoboken, NJ

Aug 6 - Petaluma Music Festival - Petaluma, CA

Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds

About this talk

With his team at SENSEable City Lab, MIT's Carlo Ratti makes cool things by sensing the data we create. He pulls from passive data sets -- like the calls we make, the garbage we throw away -- to create surprising visualizations of city life. And he and his team create dazzling interactive environments from moving water and flying light, powered by simple gestures caught through sensors.

About Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti directs the MIT SENSEable City Lab, which explores the "real-time city" by studying the way sensors and electronics relate to the built environment. He's opening a research center in…

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Staircases / Staircase Rails

This outstanding one of a kind staircase in Santa Cruz is the result of the collaborative efforts set forth by an inspired architect and a team of highly skilled and imaginative log stairway building professionals.

Fantasy Forest Tree House

If this looks large to you, imagine how big it would seem to someone half your size or smaller. Like some childrens picture-book come to life, this 'Enchanted Forest' wooden tree house may look a bit kitsch to us as adults from a design perspective  but for kids it is one very cool combination of fairy tale magic and real-life adventure.

Held up by a combination of wooden beams and actual tree trunks, a spiral staircase connects this series of interdependent levels to effectively create a single (narrative) structure out of a number of semi-autonomous rooms and floors along the way. Each platform affords places to play as well as increasingly interesting views of the surrounding treescapes.

Part of a larger theme park in the rural old-growth forests of British Columbia, this is part of a sizable fantasy-themed environment that blends natural wonders, wild animals and folklore classics both old and new in a kid-friendly resort setting. This unusual tree building at the heart of the experience holds the record for the largest (and tallest) tree house in BC, Canada. If you have plans to be in the area and are content with the faux-historical concept, there is even a castle hotel in another part of the complex.

Prefab Home Office Interior

Prefab Home Office Interior-plus-Furniture Pod Design Idea

We get the point: modular, convertible, transforming, hideaway, space-saving furniture is the way of the future, so what is there left to do? Prototypes for compact kitchens, combined living-and-dining rooms and home-office pods abound, but the next step is to create designs that do even more by truly sectioning off functional spaces from one another and becoming as mobile as possible.

Though still unbuilt, the LoftBox by Atelier Graff seems like a good candidate for this second-generation approach to versatile interior and furniture design. More than just another multi-functional home furnishing, this piece uses minimal materials to create a separate-feeling spatial zone – an area one can use for small meetings, a phone call, personal workspace or other ‘space within a space’ needs.

When folded back up, it is as minimalist as can be – an unobtrusive-looking object that could be used as an ottoman or coffee table, left right out in the middle of a room without causing any visual or physical disturbances. In short: this idea appears to be on the right track, combining elements of creative modern functionality, basic luxury and the best space-saving office-in-a-box-concepts.