Cinderbread 2008: We Came, We Ate, We Blew It Up

A couple years ago after assembling 10 gingerbread houses, we inadvertently stumbled on the idea to dispose of them by incineration.

And what better way to burn those calories?

This year, your favorite labrats upped the ante by assembling more and more elaborate ginger bread houses with the express purpose of blowing them up. Dozens of our friends showed up to help build an elaborate gingerbread city (Cinderection!) and watched it explode in a fiery inferno (Cinderbration!).

More pictures from our friends, in rough chronological order:

by broxtronix

by glasser

by flickrpuck

by ifl

by 415monkey

by suzahna

by eeetthaannn

by benchun

Deceminate: Holiday Craft Fair this Sunday!

Come to Langton Labs this Sunday for a holiday crafts fair!
Support local artists and buy unique holiday gifts for your loved ones
or yourself!

DECEMINATE! Crafts Fair hosted by Langton Labs

Sunday 12/14/08 Noon-4PM

9 Langton Street (near 7th and Howard)


Featured sellers include:

• A.O. Monterosso - Handblown Glass
  
• Booty Boutiqe - Belt Buckles
  
• Callibug Designs - Clothing - Callibugdesigns.com
  
• Dina Pinza - Jewelry - Dinapinza.etsy.com
  
• Feisty Elle - Accessories - FeistyElle.com
  
• Interplanetary Craft - Earrings & Critters
  
• Orange - Hoola-hoops
  
• Riv - Robot Hearts & Jewelry
  
• Sarakali - Headresses & Hair Clips
  
• Sasen - Truffles - Laboratory for Chocolate Science
  
• SeamstressErin - Sewn Stuff
  
• Sudhu Tewari - Objects d'Art - sudhutewari.com
  
• Wunderkammer - Curiosities - jpolka.etsy.com
  

The Langton Labs crew will have refreshments for sale. Please bring a canned food donation for the San Francisco Food Bank. Feel free to RSVP on Facebook if that's your style.

(It might not be too late to sell your crafts! Contact fair@langtonlabs.org if interested.)

gamelan sekar jaya!

Langton Labs hosted a concert by Gamelan Sekar Jaya this Saturday. Dozens of musicians played in three different traditional Balinese styles, including the Western Hemisphere's only "gamelan jegog" (pictured above), beautiful instruments made out of immense bamboo. (Langton's own Laurel played one of the bass instruments in the jegog.) It's not every day that a world-class ensemble performs inside your house... though maybe it should be! Rupa led a crew of Langtonites in a mad day-long catering fest as well.

I have some photos of the gamelan up, with more to come at that link. Hopefully this will be the first of many live performances at Langton Labs!