Late Nights, Toychestra, Drum Machines, Fast Cars and Free Days! That’s how we roll! It’s all about you being behind the wheel of your own customized museum visit. Come late, make and listen to music, learn about the Padrinos Car Club or take a turn on the Mechanical Drum Machine. This weekend is packed full of fun choices. On Friday, May 31st the we/customize gallery and the entire museum is open until midnight! On Saturday, June 1st make some noise with Lexa Walsh, her Remix Station and members of Toychestra as well as Tim Phillips with his Mechanical Drum Machine. But wait, there’s more…On Sunday, June 2nd, the monthly Free First Sunday, we’ll have Padrinos Car Club members and friends sharing their love of cars by featuring two customized hydraulic cars: a 1964 Impala and a 1970 Caprice. Act now(Or act hrough Sunday) and we’ll triple the offer by bringing Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan and the 1963 Ford Falcon Deluxe Club Wagon he has been meticulously transforming into a mobile work of art called “Love, Inertia and the Pursuit of the Perfect Stance”, into the mix. This weekend is gearing up to be “Indie 500” legendary. Swing by www.wecustomize.org and stay up to speed! See You There! Oakland Rover
Late Nights, Toychestra, Drum Machines, Fast Cars and Free Days! That’s how we roll! It’s all about you being behind the wheel of your own customized museum visit. Come late, make and listen to music, learn about the Padrinos Car Club or take a turn on the Mechanical Drum Machine. This weekend is packed full of fun choices. On Friday, May 31st the we/customize gallery and the entire museum is open until midnight! On Saturday, June 1st make some noise with Lexa Walsh, her Remix Station and members of Toychestra as well as Tim Phillips with his Mechanical Drum Machine. But wait, there’s more…On Sunday, June 2nd, the monthly Free First Sunday, we’ll have Padrinos Car Club members and friends sharing their love of cars by featuring two customized hydraulic cars: a 1964 Impala and a 1970 Caprice. Act now(Or act Friday through Sunday) and we’ll triple the offer by bringing Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan and the 1963 Ford Falcon Deluxe Club Wagon he has been meticulously transforming into a mobile work of art called “Love, Inertia and the Pursuit of the Perfect Stance”, into the mix. This weekend is gearing up to be “Indie 500” legendary. Swing by www.wecustomize.org and stay up to speed! See You There! Oakland Rover
These Are The Breaks… And the theme for this weekend’s we/customize Customizer-in-Residence series, “Design for Re-Use; Making Breakage Beautiful” with Daniela Rosner. What does it mean to make refuse poetic or remnants elegant? Join Daniela as she examines the interplay between technology, handcraft, and the creative communities around them. With guest artists Wendy Renz, Debra Berl, Miwa Ikemiya and Miriam Dym in rotation from the maker community she’ll lead us in a hands-on exploration of what can be done with redundant, discarded or “obsolete” materials. From disentegrating chairs spun into succulent garden beds and e-waste turned into elegant jewelry, Daniela will show how objects can have second and third lives. Make this weekend your big break by bringing in broken things to transform into something alluring and new. We’re in and around the studio Friday, May 17th from 5 pm to 8 pm and again Saturday and Sunday, May 18th and 19th from 1 pm to 4 pm.  —Oakland Rover
We Are Building Oakland In Ten Days!!! But this time in the world of Minecraft, the well known and beloved indie game(Independent video game) played by just about all technology savvy gamers, we will build it again. So if you missed out on the the other times when Oakland was born, razed and then born again, fear not because this weekend, Alex Handy the internationally known technology journalist and director of The MADE(The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment), Oakland’s Video Game Museum and the community on the Paradise Minecraft Server are the www.wecustomize.org Customizers-In-Residence. We Are Building Oakland in Minecraft in 10 Days! Museum goers are invited to come into the we/customize studio this weekend and help us finish building and altering while exploring a virtual model of Oakland. The deadline is Friday, April 26th and on that day, from 5 pm to 8 pm, we will be showing hard work. On Saturday and Sunday, April 27th and 28th, we’ll be showing it again from 1 pm to 4 pm. Help us meet this fun, tight and challenging deadline! —Oakland Rover
All Hands On Deck!!! Or “All Hands On The New Remix Station” that Lexa Walsh, our Customizer-in-Residence will debut this weekend. She’s coming back with a bigger and better version of the Remix Station, the soundboard prototype that she debuted earlier this year. Expect a fun time building beats and finding a customized groove while making music from toys and the California Library of Natural Sounds. Join us in studio Friday, April 19th from 5 pm to 8 pm then again all weekend, Saturday and Sunday, April 20th and 21st from 1 pm to 4 pm. What sound would you like to hear remixed into your ringtones, appliance signals, check engine reminders, doorbells or alarm clocks? Bring your customized beat and add it to the remix!—Oakland Rover(Image courtesy of Johnna Arnold)
Ladies, Gentlemen and Kids of Allllllllll Ages, Please Give It Up For  Tim Phillips and The Mechanical Drum Machine! - kick - thoompf - snare - KAAAAH - stick - tOk! Join English sound artist, musician and inventor Tim Phillips and the ‘CMT creates music’ team when they bring their Mechanical Drum Machine this weekend to our Customizers-in-Residence “We/Customize The Beat” stop in the we/customize studio! clap - chlawk - closed hat - tssss - open hat - shaw! Friday, March 8th 5-8pm and Saturday/Sunday March 9th & 10th 1-4pm Come play, jam, build and talk withthe artists. tom 1 - bihm - tom 2 - bohm - tom 3 - buhm - ride - KEENG - crash - swuhFWOOSH! —Oakland Rover
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