Recently Plug hosted a meetup of writers, bloggers, artists, and editors to a casual open forum to discuss critical writing and its place in the Kansas City arts ecosystem. The meeting opened [...]
LOOSED OF LIMITS AND IMAGINARY LINES. February 2nd, 2012, 7 PM, Epperson Auditorium at the Kansas City Art Institute. Forget about the concept of a regional aesthetic, an all-encompassing [...]
PLUG PROJECTS 1613 Genessee Street Kansas City, MO 64102 Thursday, January 12, 2012 6-8pm Join us this Thursday for our second critique with Blair Schulman and our guest moderators Corey Antis [...]
We are less than an hour to the second launch of Ascent. Here is the current forecasted flight path: Winds are easing a bit with the forecasted flight now covering 71 miles. Estimated landing [...]
Today was release or launch day and the team met at CAPs at 9 and jumped right in on getting things ready. We worked out the kinks for broadcasting a signal from outside to a computer inside the [...]
While preparing the balloon payload for launch, our inflated helium balloon escaped from its clamp and took off like a homesick angel. We have a spare balloon but the first balloon took our [...]
We had a minor technical problem with the balloon TV transmitter overheating our onboard battery. We have replaced the battery and will be attempting to launch shortly. Please watch the live [...]
We are 14 hours away from launch and all systems are go! Thanks to our head engineer, Fred Bruenjes, we have a projection of what the flight will look like tomorrow. Launching from the CAPS [...]
Here is the link to the Ustream video account that will show live video from the balloon flight: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ascent-balloon The video stream will remain inactive until this [...]
