Author Archives: ABianchi

Oh, and off topic and totally irrelevant: Here’s Kelson doing a cartwheel

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Darkroom lookin’ good too!

Spent all day yesterday cleaning up and organizing the darkroom! Can’t wait to spend some time in here. I wonder if fixer makes a good spice?

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Hank using our new loom!

As hackerspaces traditionally focus on technology, we should remember that not all things need be made on the computer or by digital processes. Here you see OMNICORPDETROIT member Hannah Kelley using our new loom, which was donated to OCD by artist and musician collective Crow Manor in Detroit. Lookin’ good Hank! We’ll keep our eyes [...]

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OMNICORPDETROIT’s CAMP project at Movement 2012 – in action!

OCD was grateful to be a part of this year’s Movement 2012 Electronic Music Festival. Laser-cut acrylic afloat, here are OMNICORP’s Partycles is in all of their glory. Also a big congratulations to all the other CAMP participants – all of your projects looked awesome! Thanks to everyone who helped produce CAMP, Movement and all [...]

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OMNICORPDETROIT prepares and installs their CAMP installation for Movement 2012

As we gear up for an exciting weekend, part of recently dubbed “Detroit Techno Week” (finally!) by Mayor Dave Bing, OMNICORPDETROIT and CAMP participants are putting the final touches on their projects, which will be shown off for the third year as a part of Movement 2012. OMNICORP’s project, called Partycles, is up and had [...]

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OMNICORP featured in ‘Metropolis’ mag blog

New York-based architectural critic and educator Nina Rappaport who curated the current exhibit at MOCAD entitled “Vertical Urban Factory,“ showing in tandem with another show called “Post Industrial Complex, knows a thing or two about post-industrialization and the reuse of space in cities throughout the world. Check out the blog post in Metropolis magazine here, where Nina and [...]

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OMNICORPDETROIT Featured in super sweet art blog

What do you get when you take a group of Cranbrook graduates on school bus around Detroit? Well, a bunch of kids on a school bus in Detroit, no big deal. But in all seriousness, the grads visited us at OCD and some other spaces and studios around Detroit for a big-day-out style field trip [...]

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Mad Scientist OCD Member Aaron Blendowski hacks household products, makes Threat Manager 2

Coming to you straight from the dungeon of OMNICORPDETROIT comes the newest, latest and greatest solution for non-lethal, home defense. Introducing Threat Manager 2 Threat Manager 2 is a great aural and occular confusion-defense system to compliment your golf club, bat, candlestick or any other preferred domestic bludgeoning devices. TM2 is a hybrid-and-hacked device designed to [...]

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OPEN HACK NIGHT MAY 17

Come join your favorite nerds and anti-socialites and work on the strangest projects you can think of!    Please remember to be aware of projectile jorts and potatoes, fireworks, banana cars and mustard / ketchup / hotdog fights. Oh, and if you misbehave, we have a pit full of rabid bunnies and mutant spiders. Oohhh [...]

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And Ted won’t let Aaron play.

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