Check out the first photos from Beam 2008 right here.

All the Beam News That’s Fit To Print. All from the Campers’ Eye View.

Click here to download the First Edition of the Parker Press.

Pics from Owl’s Head RAAACEWAYYY PARK!

The track was fast, yet slow,
the competitors were intense, yet polite,
the cars were inventive, yet sleek.

Get a Racer-POV of Brooklyn’s first running of Gerbo’s Gravity Racer Grand Prix right here. Courtesy of King, Mickey and Frank Snider.

Beamers,

Check out the great photos of last year’s project on Caitlin Berrigan’s website.

 Two Domes designed by Caitlin Berrigan and created by Beamers for the Beam 07 Project were part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s BioArt Initiative in November.

You’ve seen the trailer. You’ve heard the stories. Finally, here it is in all it’s glory.

Recipe:
1 garbage bag full of stuffed animals
1 barrel of mud
2 bottles red-colored corn starch
hefty helping of Beamer imagination

The epic continues.

Beamers gathered in Greenpoint to get ghoulish with good friends, great counselors and Gerbo.

Beamers, Speak! Tell everyone what’s on your mind, comment on the new site, toss out an idea for a Domain or Project, say hello to fellow Beamers. Remember, keep it clean and keep it Beam-y.

Just click the comment link and start typing.

From the minds of the campers to completion in 2 hours. One take per scene, no post-production, only minor censorship.

SSR stands for Support, Sustain, Reflect. When we do all the right things we get SSR. Support is keeping our bunks and the camp clean. Sustain is being responsible. Reflect is doing our “highs and lows” (things we didn’t like and did like, and things that surprised us, in our days) before bed. We put together a list of our favorite things we’d like to do when we get an SSR celebration:

• Dessert
• Sleeping Late
• Picking What You Want for Dessert
• A Dance Party
• Extra Free Time

—Jade and Ruby, Pulsars

I was eating dinner when my stomach started to hurt. I went to Delphine, the doctor, and she checked my temperature. It was 103! She gave me some medicine. I rested in bed. I had to sleep there all night. In the morning I felt better and made origami. The origami was an ice cream. First i made a cup. It was yellow. Then I made a green circle and put it inside the cup. It looked like ice cream. In two days I felt all better.

—Malia, Pulsar

The Project for Beam this year was called the Macro-Micro Domes. What we did was build five geodesic domes of different sizes. Then we decorated 4 of them to look like geodesic viruses: Hepatitis C, Herpes, the Rhino Virus, and HIV. The fifth dome, which is the biggest, was the Beam Virus, which we, the Beam Campers, designed.

The Rhino Virus was the dome we started decorating first. We decorated it by attaching triangular panels to each triangle, some clear, some green. We drilled holes in each panel in the places we needed holes in. In the clear panels, we poked strands of ‘Flagellae’ through the holes. On the green panels, the holes were arranged so that for every five green panels, there was a star shape. We poked blue lights through those holes.

Next was HIV. We decorated it by attaching the panels and spraying it with spray foam. Then we glued red fabric to each triangle. The color had changed, but we still had the spray foam texture. Then we put ‘mushrooms’ we had made, complete with latex and pipe cleaners, to the dome with giant staples. None of us campers were allowed to attach the mushrooms; it was ‘too dangerous.’

The Hepatitis C dome was the smallest one. This time, we didn’t attach any panels; we attached yellow fabric with ‘noodles’ sticking out of it. But how did the noodles get there? The campers wove them onto the fabric. They got the noodles from paper cutouts. We pinned them onto the fabric, then cut out around the edges.

Then Herpes. We silk-screened the designs onto the fabric, then attached that onto the dome. Again, we didn’t use any panels. There were still open triangles, so we attached green fabric to those open triangles.

Last but not least was the Beam Virus. Since we had six ‘waves’ [roving, working groups], and there were six pentagons to a dome, each wave got an assignment. One wave made face parts, one wave made ‘Patterns in Nature’, et cetera. Then we attached triangles with facial parts, patterns in nature, et cetera, to the dome. Inside the dome, there are pictures of parts of our bodies, only taken with microscope cameras.

—Lucas, Proton

Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.

Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.

Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.

Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.

Campers worked with Beam Guide Jeremy Bailey to create these mini-masterpieces of video juxtaposition.