This past weekend PLUG projects traveled to Chicago to attend the Hand in Glove conference organized by threewalls and the newly formed Alliance of Independent Arts Organizers (AIAO). It was an [...]
Plans are underway for another balloon flight. We got some incredible images and video however we did have some problems. The Canon camera with the fish-eye lens stopped working for about an hour [...]
Kansas City, November 2011, Julia Vering will premier her Rocket Grant funded project, You Live Here Too, a multi-media performance utilizing video, stop-motion animation, an original score, and [...]
Hello Rocketbloggers – just a quick update on the Resistant History project’s progress. The course is close to midterm and our neighborhood tours showcase many interesting histories in the KC [...]
The balloon was recovered about a half mile west of State Highway Y in a field off of 215th street. This picture from 94,021 feet shows an area stretching from Hillsdale Lake to the west (left [...]
These are frames from the HD camera video. You can clearly see the curve of the Earth, how thin the atmosphere is, and a few recognizable surface features. I think the lake on the right is [...]
Today was the day and to say things came together is an understatement. We learned from what happened on Saturday and as you can see from the pictures we had a very secure method for inflating [...]
The payload was successfully recovered this afternoon!! It landed in a mowed field about 50 yards off the road making it easy to find. The payload is now hanging on display in the atrium of the [...]
