East Lansing Sunday Soup

Sunday Soup Benefits Local Artists

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:33:07 -0500

Sunday Soup Benefits Local Artists:

Article in the State News on East Lansing Sunday Soup!

Sunday Soup Six! Propose! Come! Eat! Proposals can be sent to...

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:11:34 -0500

Sunday Soup Six! Propose! Come! Eat!

Proposals can be sent to luke@retroduck.com.

Soup is on!

Sun, 18 Nov 2012 14:16:12 -0500

Soup is on!

Soup is on, November 18th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 2pm until...

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:13:35 -0400

Soup is on, November 18th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 2pm until 4pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook. Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace: 110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823 Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!

Art Cooperative Looks to Expand Community

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 11:21:13 -0400

Art Cooperative Looks to Expand Community:

Piece on our Director Luke Hackney, and Lansing Art Works, in today’s State News.

Sunday Soup 4

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 12:47:28 -0400

Sunday Soup 4:

Soup is on, September 30th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.

Food will be provided by Buffalo Wild Wings and Harrison Roadhouse.

Sunday Soup is hosted by Luke Hackney at (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!

Livestock, Russell Arthur Bauer, past Sunday Soup...

Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:16:00 -0400

Livestock, Russell Arthur Bauer, past Sunday Soup recipient.

From Russell’s proposal:

Live Stock is an exploration into the development of open-source agricultural controllers through the creation of living interactive animatronic inflatable hanging sculptures.

The form of piece is inspired by glow in the dark worms found in caves of South America. It is a hanging irrigated armature supporting the growth inside of a led impregnated plastic skin allowing the propagated wheatgrass protection from potential human pathogens, through filtered pressurization. The LEDs will pinpoint the portion of the visible spectrum utilized in the photosynthesis of both chlorophyl a and chlorophyl b. The (agricultural plastic) skin of the living sculptures will also be equipped with three motion sensors, that will allow the sculptures to react to the viewer.

The sculptures will respond to the viewer in three ways. First the sensors which will be interfaced to the open-source microprocessor platform Arduino, allowing them to control three stepping motors; one stepping motor to each sensor. Each stepping motor will control two cables; one attached to the inner armature and one attached to the outer skin. The motor and cable system will allow the hanging wormlike sculpture to recoil from the viewer. The second level of anthropomorphic behavior will be in the LEDs. The LEDs in the plastic skin of the creature will blink and undulate in response to the viewers presence. The third level of response to the viewer is the irrigation system. The pieces will only receive water when a viewer is present. The combination of behavioral traits displayed in the living sculptures will make them appear simultaneously apprehensive of the viewer (demonstrated by their recoiling from the viewer and defensive flashing of their lights) and dependent on the viewer for water.

On the top of the sculptures (above the viewers head) will be the controllers (brains) and actuators (stepping motors) as well as the fans inflating the skin with air forced through a filter. The filter will keep the area around the wheatgrass clean and free of human pathogens. The sculptures will be designed to be harvested weekly and replanted with pre-sprouted mats of wheatgrass that will be sewn onto the armature in 16” segments. At the weekly harvesting the wheatgrass is to be juiced and fed to the viewer.

Soup is on, June 24th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm....

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:24:45 -0400

Soup is on, June 24th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.

Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!

Soup is on, April 15th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until...

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:39:16 -0400

Soup is on, April 15th at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Anyone who needs help funding their artistic project is welcome to submit a proposal. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most. Admission is $5.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.

Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!

Awesome little video by Mackenzie Mohr of Entirely East Lansing.

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:02:49 -0400

Awesome little video by Mackenzie Mohr of Entirely East Lansing.

East Lansing’s first-ever Sunday Soup went off without a...

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 14:55:00 -0400

East Lansing’s first-ever Sunday Soup went off without a hitch.

From the State News:

Community members, local artists and art enthusiasts came together Sunday to share their creative ideas and a hot meal at the first-ever East Lansing Sunday Soup.

The event, which took place from 12-2 p.m. Sunday at (SCENE) Metrospace, 110 Charles St., helps support local artists by awarding them funds for projects they currently are working on or wish to pursue. Three artists presented their ideas on Sunday.

The winning proposal, Do You Know Where You Will Lay Your Head Tonight?, received a modest $135 to go towards their project. We were really happy with the overall turnout and look forward to the future of this project.

(Photos courtesy of Mackenzie Mohr.)

Please join us Sunday, March 18 at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:49:00 -0500

Please join us Sunday, March 18 at (SCENE) MetroSpace from 12pm until 2pm. Admission is $5, which pays for your food. Sunday Soup is a community meal and micro-grant which provides funds for creative projects. Everyone in attendance will vote on the proposal they like the most.

Please, if you can, RSVP on Facebook.

Hosted by (SCENE) MetroSpace:

110 Charles Street, East Lansing, MI 48823

Free parking in the garage across the street and the lot behind (SCENE).

For more information, please click here. Artists wishing to submit a proposal, please click here. If you have any other questions, please direct them to luke@retroduck.com. Thank you!

(SCENE) to Launch Sunday Soup, Artist Proposals Now Being Accepted

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:47:47 -0500

(SCENE) to Launch Sunday Soup, Artist Proposals Now Being Accepted

New Sunday Soup Series to Raise Microgrants for Artists

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:31:51 -0500

New Sunday Soup Series to Raise Microgrants for Artists:

Sometimes supporting the arts can seem like a job that only the wealthiest or most connected members of society can participate in. Thanks to the new East Lansing Sunday Soup series at (Scene) Metrospace, everyone with five dollars and an interest in the arts can help fund the great ideas of local artists.