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Planning a San Francisco show by the fall. Mark Pauline surveys a possible site! Be the first to know about shows and get tickets by joining our Patreon
HT Matias Drago from the latest episode of Adam Savege’s Tested
Thanks to Geo Homsey for setting up the Zoom memorial for SRL crew member Frank Hausman. Frank worked on the swarmers which were the first physical robots to implement Craig Reynolds boids flocking algorithm in the late 80s. Frank also wrote Centipede. RIP Frank, you will be missed!
Mark Pauline demos the base for SRL’s newest machine as of March 2024 – an electric omni wheeled base for the spikey puncher.
New video uploaded by KVUE interviewing Mark Pauline and a couple crew members from the 1997 show in Austin The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts. We broke a record there – it was the first time live video was broadcast wirelessly on the web!
SRL performed here in 1985 and the owners of the club were the Goode’s who were also @markpauline5 ‘s landlords at the old shop in SF. Eric Goode also went on to make Tiger King. Repost from @nychistoryhub
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The story of Area Nightclub, maybe the most iconic in NYC history.
