Session 2 - Diary
Monday July 31st 2006, 9:27 pm
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Session 2 - Ages 11 to 18

Sunday - Sorry for the delay, had some issues getting the media uploaded on Sunday (Flickr is getting hammered by the folks trying to fill up their end-of-the-month quotas), so, now I’m behind… Here’s the few shots that got uploaded before I gave up.

Monday - Behold! The magnificent row-carts. Due to massive incompetence on my part, I have deleted all of the video from today of the row-carts. My apologies to all concerned, and I’m sure the tinkerers will be fooling around with the carts tomorrow so there will be opportunity to get some then.

Tuesday - Updated! A fine day of row-cart upgrades and seashore carting (with lots of video).

Wednesday - a long day (1am now) due to some unexpected night-time row-carting. Enjoy! Tomorrow we start our boats, so stay tuned and read up on lateen sails.

Thursday - can you build an actual sailboat in one day without any plans? “Yup,” says Hanna. Updated! - now includes a moment of zen (Youtube outtage prevented the upload last night).

Friday - avast! Today we challange the mighty Pacific.



Session 1 - Diary
Monday July 24th 2006, 6:26 am
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Sunday - chores, arrivals, tinkering, games, dinner, acting lessons. We manage to pack a full days events into just a few hours. This is how it starts.

Monday - workouts, guitars, movie making, deconstruction, freeze-tag - just another day at Tinkering School.

Tuesday - all boats, all day.

Wednesday - we try our hardest to make big pinhole cameras, but the sun refuses to shine, and, we have underestimated the toll our day of boating has taken on the whole group (instructors included). Nevertheless, we manage to have some constructive fun.

Thursday - in a stunning recovery from yesterdays lethargy, we jam a whole days tinkering into one busy morning session and then head to San Franciso to have some fun in Adobe’s green screen studio. It’s specialeffectsalicious.

Friday - ok folks, it’s 3am here at the ranch and I’m just not capable of completely captioning the days media. I’ll try and get to it later today after the tinkerers have all been picked up by their parents. In the meantime, enjoy these scenes from our day building an eight person bicycle. Updated! I’ve fixed the broken video links (thanks for the catching that) and finished the captions. One of the cameras had the wrong date, so some of the pictures are out of order - we’ll get that fixed too…

Saturday - the finished movie preview, the working TinkerMobile, the sad farewells. Thank you all for watching. Stay tuned for Session Two starting Sunday.