Artist Jan Vormann has been helping out around the city, by fixing some buildings' holes with Legos. Could someone call an ambulance. The 12 year-old me just exploded out of my ribcage and is doing fake karate moves around the living room.

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Attention, please. Handmade Music Night has moved to its new space at Galapagos Art Space in Dumbo. Tomorrow night, March 8th, there will be show-and-tell, musical sewing machines, electronic honky-tonk, drinks, performances, hands on demos, and more. For free.

Here's the info:

Science fair, party, variety show - Handmade Music celebrates unusual DIY creations in music, with people who make their own tools to make their own music.

This month, Galapagos Art Space means a stage, a bar, and a huge lineup of FREE music:
* ELECTRO-COUNTRY + unusual instruments with the Owen Lake band, covering honky-tonk country classics on synths and electronics and showing off Jeff Snyder's original Manta touch instrument

* AUGMENTED SEWING MACHINE + ENSEMBLE with monome and other creations, featuring Lara Grant (sewing machine) + Matt Ganucheau + Peter Kirn

* HANDMADE GESTURE CONTROLLER by Mouse & the Billionaire

* AUDIOVISUAL HYPER-TRUMPET the TOOB, an expressive digital instrument

...plus surprises, hands-on with lots of inventions, plenty of makers and technologists to meet and buy beers in exchange for tips, crafters, inventors, and more.

Hosted by createdigitalmusic.com, the craft marketplace and community Etsy, the DIY bible Make Magazine, and the trend-setters of XLR8R Magazine

Did you notice us up there? Yeah. We'll be there. Performing. With visuals provided by the one and only AOF. It's going to be awesome, and you should probably be there.

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It is snowy out there today. Really snowy. This winter has just been one long snow-covered excuse to stay inside and brew some beer. And brew we have. It has been fun to experiment with some interesting ingredients, meanwhile devouring book after book on beer-making, and hopefully by the first leaf of spring we'll have some delicious samples to start passing around.

Until then, please visit the newly launched craftbeer.com, where you can read up on all the exciting things going on in the world of craft beer. Cheers!

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