By Goli Mohammadi Posted 2013/06/10 @ 2:48 pm Category Art & Design, Makers Click here for original MAKE article Oakland, Calif.-based artist, fabricator, project manager, and creative director Sean Orlando is not only a gifted visionary in the realm of large-scale installations, but he is a skilled organizer, leading...
[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="477,476,479,480"] Oakland, Calif.-based artist Sean Orlando will create a permanent artwork for Fire Station 32 in the West Seattle Junction. The new fire station will be built at the existing location, 3715 W. Alaska St., and will be the lead station for Battalion...
The Steampunk Tree House & 5TC featured in new Taschen book: Tree Houses: Fairy Tale Castles in the Air. "Five Ton Crane (5TC) is a group of "artists, geeks, and inventors" from the San Francisco Bay Area. As they describe their own work: "5TC does the...
The de Young Museum has announced Sean Orlando’s collaborative 2012 Artist Fellowship. Teaming up with Rebar and in partnership with the Black Rock Arts Foundation, we will be developing Urbanauts, a speculative exploration of urban infrastructure and the everyday urban experience. “Through a series of interwoven conversations, urban...
10 Wild Art Cars From Burning Man In late August, a community of more than 50,000 like-minded folks gathers for a week in the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada for the annual Burning Man festival. Cars are not allowed as transport in this temporary small...
SPUR LUNCHTIME FORUM Image credit: Flickr user Nick Winterhalter West Oakland has emerged as a vital hub in the international Industrial Arts Movement, which is re-inhabiting the city’s industrial infrastructure and deploying its tools to new ends. Often overlooked behind warehouse doors, a diverse cluster of new...
Saturday Feb. 18th Five Ton Crane (represented by Alan Rorie, David Shulman, and Sean Orlando) will share their retro-futuristic large installation projects, such as their Raygun Gothic Rocket All activities and workshops run from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm and are on a first-come, first-serve basis. A collaboration...
Check out this fantastic photo of the Rocketship at Pier 14 in SF by John C Maffei Apogee Photography ...
The Nautilus submarine from Oakland North on Vimeo. Deep in West Oakland, a collective of artists called Five Ton Crane (5TC) is hard at work tuning up their submarine. Although it doesn’t go underwater, there seems to be little else this lifesize vessel can’t do—it even...