SF Decompression Showing

Our favorite G#&* Gnome made it out to Decompression last weekend.Limited to only his propane effect the General nevertheless delighted the street party with blasts thru his hat. Maybe next year the fire inspector will let the gnome try to torch the 20the street Go Gee-Gnome!

Success!

Great News! The word on the playa is we hit a 'Gnome-Run'. The Gnomes were well pleased with the offering of the Gee-Gnome Project and the human gee-gnome will be further developed. Our DNA was picked up for version 0.3b and at least a 30 year commitment for enhancement. Evolution can continue and we can all breath a sigh of relief and concentrate on more pressing issues, like what a robo-gnome might look like. Well there is no place like gnome and as we all dust off and straighten out the messes we leftess on the way out I would like to THANK all of YOU, loyal Gnome Fanatics and Friends who made all this craziness possible. So Thank You and the Gnomes thank you also. Stay tuned for photos and videos and possible Gee-Gnone appearances.

Garden Party pics and Thanks!

Skot Kuiper's Photos of the Gee-Gnome Fundraiser are on facebook for those inclined towards the social networking. http://www.facebook.com/search/?q=gee-gnome&init=quick#/album.php?aid=96135&id=595742374

Many thanks to all that are helping get us the funds we need to bring the Gee-Gnome to the playa, fully fueled, and salted for maximum gnomastic showing! The generosity shown has been amazing, we still are running a bit short so please consider donating. The Gnomes thank YOU!

Fundraising Success!

Thank You Thank You Thank You to everyone who made it out to the Shipyard and spent some time with the Gnomies and helped up raise some cash for the project. Much fun was had and as you can see by the gnome indicator to the right we are moving out of the red. Extra special thanks for those who couldn't make it but still donated via the paypal. If you have pictures from the party please let me know and I will post them, till then this is what the gnomes have provided.

Please, Donate. Do it for the Children.

...and by children, I mean teamGnome. Who knew that Gnomes ate that much? We children certainly didn't. If you can't come to our fundraiser tomorrow, Sunday August 2nd (see blog post below), show us some love and please hit the donate button to the upper right of this page. We need to get the little gnome pointer thingy towards the green, at least that is what my accountant is telling me. Gnome donation is too small and certainly gnome donation is too large!
The Gnomes and teamGnome will be eternally grateful.

Thanks!

Fundraiser!

Garden Gnome Party at the Shipyard, Sunday August 2nd, 1 - 5 p.m.

For immediate release several weeks ago:

teamGnome and The Bay Area Gnomish-American Cultural Coalition request your presence at the First Annual Gnomish Garden Party Fundraiser to support the Gee-Gnome Project in its final push to the playa.

teamGnome will be taking a short break from our joyful frolicking toils in the sunny East Bay to have some food and drink with our friends and supporters. We will be engaging in garden party games with a gnomish and industrial twist, showing off our new aluminum foundry with molten metally goodness, and shaking it gnome style (similar to human style, except smaller and cuter). Peer behind the infrequently pieced Gnomish Aluminum Curtain into the our workshop and
learn of the secret gnomish technology and lore.

Skip Sunday Brunch and come on down to the Shipyard! We will be BBQ-ing delicious gnomish delights, both meaty and veggie, and imbibing highly alcoholic gnomish brews, the traditional spiced gin concoctions, as well as the usual, less daring, beer and wine.

This is your chance for very limited Gee-Gnome tag and swag, so bring yer gear and walk away with our logo!

Help us help the gnomes help us,
teamGnome.
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Garden Party Fundraiser with the Gnomies!
Entrance Free (Donations Encouraged)

Sunday August 2, 1-5 pm
The Shipyard
1010 Murray St Berkeley

Enjoy food, drinks, music! (Donations Encouraged)
Meet the artists! (Donations Encouraged)
Make a gnome hat/get a gnome brand! (Donations Encouraged)
Garden Games (Donations Encouraged)
See live molten aluminum casting! (Donations Encouraged)
Music by Duane, his band, and DJ iPod and His Ruben's Tube (Donations Encouraged)
Win Valuable Prizes (Donations Required)
Contribute to the Gee-Gnome project so that we will continue to
evolve! (Evolution Encouraged)

We encourage donations and donations are encouraged.

blue flame

blue flame
Originally uploaded by sandwichgirl

Fire Arts Festival. The débutante Gee-Gnome showing off her new blue flame, now with extra new blueyness. We rolled out some new colors and had four good days of playing with our new toy. Thank you Crucible for the chance to show the Gee-Gnome in the Bay Area, you are truly friends of the gnome.

Gnome Face

I wanted to give you a look at my gnome face. gnome ...gnome.... gnome, well you get it. This is the first stage of the modeling made about two weeks ago. We have subsequently cast the plaster molds and have made plaster positives. We are still working on coping with the size of the sand molds necessary for this casting (400 lb sand boxes are kind of hard to throw around) and so the work continues. Thanks for the support you all gave us at the Fire Arts Festival where we had four full nights of successful gnome shots and are still around to talk about it. Watch this space for photos of the brand new colored flames we tried out as well an invite to the Gee-Gnome Garden Party on August 2nd.

FAF Run Up

We have been gnoing gnomey to gnet ready for the Fire Arts Festival where we will be showing the Gee-Gnome Project. Meeting the Oakland Fire Department this afternoon to get clearance and the Festival is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. Come out and support the Crucible and your local Gnome makers!

Thanks to the members of TeamGnome for coming out to install the piece in West Oakland last night:

and remember there are many moods of gnome. just some could be: surly, stabby, damnit, cantankereous carnfabberish, angry, peeved, mutterous, pissy, gnawy, shouty, slightly murderous, steamed, and boiling.

Have you experienced any more? Let us know.

Happy Belated Blog Post!

Gnomeit. If anyone that wasn't there and didn't hear we did:
1) Make it to Fourth of Juplaya
2) Arrive with all our insides bits to the Gnome and associated services
3) Assemble and test the Fire Shooting parts of the Gnome.
4) Test various nozzles, pressures, and shooting techniques
5) Break Down, Pack, and Drive back the Gnome guts back to the Bay Area.
6) Have fun while doing it.

So Happy Belated Fourth of Juplaya to all of you and to all a good night.

Desert Arts Preview

The Gee-Gnome Project will be presenting at the Desert Arts Preview tonight!

Burning Man 2009 Desert Arts Preview - Annual Artist Lecture Series
Thursday, June 25, 2009
6:30pm-10pm

In the "Grotto" community meeting room @ Sports Basement
1590 Bryant St. (at 15th St.), SF, CA 94103

Starts at 6:30 and Peter and I are scheduled to talk 8:35-8:45.

Casting Gnomes

The Gee-Gnome foundry fabrication has been finished and tested and after some fine tuning (actually coarse tuning followed by the fine kind) it was found to be just peachy. We can melt about 65 lbs of Aluminum in one charge and a winch tilts the whole furnace about the pour spout and boy is it exciting when the molten metal comes splashing out at you. Next stop, Gnome Face!

the Tank of our Dreams

Royal Welding called, our ASME certified pressure vessel is ready! Sure it cost more and we didn't figure on the sales tax and delivery cost and undercoating charge and phitzavalves maintenance and the chrome polish contract but it is ours dammit! At least it will be once someone goes and picks it up. Road trip to Fullerton anyone?!?!

FAF says OKAY

So our proposed Fire Arts Festival showing was approved by the Crucible powers that be. Ka-Ching! We still have to get the contract passed and signed, but all looks like go for lighting up the Oakland night sky with un-earthly gnome glow. The gnomes are pleased.

Pictured here is Peter with his tight packaging of the gnome heart; it is two, count them, two pneumatically actuated ball valve solenoids, along with the purge valve solenoid, and hammer arrestor, all in packed together most sweetly. I am not sure why Peter looks like this, maybe the flash brings his smirky coyness.

FAF RFP

Okay, so I have a bad TLA habit. TLA is a NASA TLA for "Three Letter Acronym". We have a Request for Proposal (RFP) in to the Fire Arts Fest (FAF). If this gets approved the GeeGnome will have four nights in Oakland showcasing its fire blast capabilities the week after live testing Fourth of Juplaya. This is good news for all the gnome gnuts that won't be going to the big dusty this year, as well hopefully allow funds for the ASME rated pressure vessel we still need to finance. So fingers crossed and hopefully the fine folks at the Crucible will see the merits of this important work!

Gnome Plumbing/Regulators/Solenoids ordered! The moon and stars aligned, the checks cleared, the flamingo entrails foretold it an opportune time on the commodities market as pegged to a basket of human and gnomic currencies...and the trigger was pulled. Next comes the screwing....together... of the parts. In other fantastic news Rockstar Margret used her superpowers to obtanium us 100 gallons of MeOH from the Coachella fuel dump. Oh happy day indeed, The gnomes will be drinking lAMbruSCO tonight!

JDV has returned from Top Secret negotiations with the Gnome representatives at an undisclosed location in the Poconos of Pennsylvania. Wait does that count as disclosure? Anyway lets just say nobody puts Gnomie in the corner.

BRC LLC Contract Signed

yes, the rumors are all true, team-Gnome went to the bmOrg HQ Friday and signed on the dotted line . Red Hats were worn. Courtesy beverages were consumed. We hammered out the gnomenclature and discussed all the hoopties that we will be jumping thru to get our gnomey hands on fat stacks of BM cash. Thank you Crimson and DaveX for being gentle on our first time, you really did make us feel special. But I hear you asking, "what does this mean to me, the rabid fire-gnome fan?" Well, mostly that if you go to the big dusty this summer you will get to see the geegnome firing with frightening regularity 'All-Week-Long'(tm); thanks for asking you self-centered git. Once that first check clears we will be off to market for casting supplies, so if you want to see how a 5 foot high, 350 lb almunium gnome is made, well... so do we!

The gnomes are among us!

Our first real life gnome, brought to us by Josh! YAY, he shall sit on my TV until our first gnomist meeting where he shall magically appear!