Great visit with visiting speaker today. So many great ideas. Now to find people to help work on this in the lab.

Late doing this, but here are a few fun pics from our Spain and UK trip in no particular order

Photomerge of Mural at Dali Museum

Originally uploaded by jason.stajich

stitched together from 8-10 shots, was curious to see how well PS would work, you can tell I wasn’t standing head-on but this turned out pretty good I’d say.

Wish I could go to http://awesomescience.wordpress.com/schedule/ this year. Look like fun.

Crystal Method live on KCRW

brainstorming jewelry studio names for Amy and figuring out where she might host the website.

Rainbow over Berkeley

Originally uploaded by jason.stajich

Rainbow over Berkeley

I didn’t have my SLR with me so this was the best shot I could get – I took a few from home but it had faded a lot.

Was a perfect time as the golden hour light of 8PM and the very light rain shower coincided.

Just in time for the folks headed to the Death Cab for Cutie concert. I can’t believe how many people I passed on the way home jumping outside to look, point, take pictures. People were spilling out of a restaurant with their server in the lead to look at the scattered light. From some directions it was a double rainbow.

Kinetic Arts, originally uploaded by jason.stajich.

Had a fun day at MakerFaire 2009 – quite overwhelmed by the things to see and do. Picked up a few fun wood art+science piece for my new office. I loved what Xylocopa makes – check them out, one of the pair is a lifesciences graduate student and also an artist drawing some deliciously detailed designs.

We also saw some more fun kinetic art like this piece as well as a some more art pieces from kinetic artist and friend Benjamin Cowden.

I also really want a 3D printer now – just need to figure out how we’ll actually (i.e. in lab) the scanned micrographs turned into 3D models of fungal cells…

My Flickr album plus lots more from others with makerfaire and makerfaire2009 tags.

Jonathan and I tried our best to liveblog JGI meeting today. I ended up running out of battery during Joe Ecker’s talk (which was great, full of data!) and full of. The day continued with a talk from Dick Smith on proteomics, mostly focused on methodology. Of course these talks are supposed to be overviews and to some extent a JGI cheerleading to what interesting new projects can be addressed by the institute. Day finished with keynote from Chris Somerville from EBI (no not that EBI) and UC Berkeley on cellulosic biofuels. Some very cool stuff but to some extent showcasing the different avenues of feed stock, chemistry, and biofermentation approaches that are being explored.

Here’s a friendfeed room so we can be more organized tomorrow.