Subatomic Particle Plushies

Matter of fact: The Particle Zoo makes particle physics that make you warm and cozy!


Particle Zookeeper, Julie Peasley hand-makes the particle plushies in her studio in Los Angeles. Her "particles are art items factoring the equation: SCIENCE+ART=UNDERSTANDING." In addition to being doggone cute, Peasley creates her plushies to raise awareness and interest in the fascinating field of particle physics.

To simulate maximum mass - she adds gravel to the dark matter (instead of standard poly-fill minimum mass)


The Particle Zoo: Sewing the fabric of spacetime
http://www.particlezoo.net/

Maker Faire is THIS WEEKEND

LOOMLAB will be part of Bazaar Bizarre San Francisco this weekend at the amazing Maker Faire!

San Mateo County Event Center San Mateo, California

10-8pm Saturday & 10-6pm Sunday

Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. It’s for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things. So much to see, you will need 2 days to see it all!

Stop by our table 54 in CYPRESS HALL and say hello - Can't wait to see you there!

Deka Ray's Cuboctahedrons

It's been a minute since my last post...wrapping up an amazing time at Unique LA and LOOMLAB also just moved its [world] headquarters to South Pasadena. World may be a bit presumptuous as it is our only headquarters right now, but it has a good ring to it.

Jumping back into highlighting nerdy cool with Deka Ray Jewelry, the brainchild of Eugenie Huang. My favorite piece of Deka Ray's is the Deathstar Debris Cluster - or a "8 cuboctahedron cluster in oxidized bronze necklace on an oxidized silver chain."
But the multiply studs are pretty super too....

In geometry, a cuboctahedron is a polyhedron with eight triangular faces and six square faces. A cuboctahedron has 12 identical vertices, with two triangles and two squares meeting at each, and 24 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a square. (thank you wikipedia)

I also just learned that a cuboctahedron is an Arcimedian solid (I love this especially since my cat's name is Archimedes!)