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...
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...
I gave a talk about Five Ton Crane and collaborative large-scale art at Landor and Associates on November 3rd 2011. For those of you who couldn't attend, here's a teaser video created by Michael Friel that we previewed at the event. ...
Look beyond the jogger at the very beginning of the commercial as he's running down the Embarcadero in San Francisco...
Artist Sean Orlando says that one of the primary benefits of his ultrahip tree house is "you can see your enemies coming from a mile away." Designed in 2007 as an art installation for the Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev.,...