NIMBY was proud to participate in the 6^th Annual Mini Maker Faire this past Sunday, October 20th at the Park Day School and Studio One space in Oakland. The event draws several thousand people each year and offers a great opportunity for our Makers to take their creations out of the warehouse, introduce them to the public, and hopefully inspire a few minds along the way.

At our outdoor space, Matt Wirth terrorized and delighted participants in the Tilt-A-Hurl standalone carnival ride. Dave Dávila gave kids (and a few adults) the opportunity to ride around the Faire in the mini-boat racer that he and Mr. Wirth put together for the Power Wheels Racing Series at the Maker Faire earlier this year in San Mateo. Snook brought the Rat Fink art car that he put together for this year’s Burning Man. Clody Cates and Gaige Qualmann brought a range of works in metal, leather, and wood. They also demonstrated some metal working skills for the public. William Orr brought down his in process tiny home. NIMBY supporter John Bolero brought a custom painted 1968 Fiat Spider convertible. Inside the Studio One space, several NIMBY newcomers displayed their LED creations. Bobby Cox, Tim Kettering and James Ranovich brought The Sanctuary of Self, a LED wall hacked with a motion capture device. Clay Richardson and Erika Pappas brought their 5 foot tall LED pyramid, an LED coffee table, and a few other creations.

Special thanks to the hardworking organizers of Mini Maker Faire: Sabrina Merlo and Jennifer Pahlka. Putting together a successful event of that size is no easy feat, but you two make it seem easy. Finally a big “Thank You!” to all of our participating Makers and NIMBY Volunteers: Mack Storton, Martin Sweet, Michelle Bert, and Deidre O’Neill.

Burning Man is just a few weeks away! Are you excited yet? Or are you frantically searching for a ticket? Just to answer the question you’re thinking and emailing us about… NO, we do NOT have any tickets or resources for acquiring tickets. Sorry, you’re on your own, kids.

What we do have a whole lot of (with the saw dust, metal scraps, bruises and sleep deprived brains to prove it), is a bunch of industrious campers and artists, who have been hard at work for months making crazy things, sprucing up art cars, and building their little hearts out. You can find the fine folk who are NIMBY Makers all over the Playa. Use this handy list to mark your map of Black Rock City so you don’t miss a single mesmerizing piece of art. If you have early entry, stop by the camps. They’ll love for stopping by to lend a hand constructing and preparing for the week ahead.

Airpusher

Camp Location: 9:00 & B

Art Pieces & Special Events: Air Ship Art Car roaming nightly / Tuesday Night at 11pm Forest Rendezvous Party with Arborealis, Icarus, and the Bombus Regius

Arborealis

Camp Location: 9:00 & Esplanade

Art Pieces & Special Events: Arborealis Forest located roughly at 12 o’clock and 4,000 feet from the Man / Tuesday Night at 11pm Forest Rendezvous Party with Airpusher, Icarus, and the Bombus Regius

BAAAHS Station

Camp Location: 7:00 & D

Art Pieces & Special Events: BAAAHS, the Big Ass Amazingly Awesome Homosexual Sheep, art car roaming nightly / Family Jewels stationary piece located in the Interior Playa near 7:00 & Esplanade

Beezus Christ Super Car

Camp Location: 9 o’clock plaza

Art Pieces & Special Events: Beezus Art Car roaming nightly & serving honey

Bombus Regius

Camp Location: 8:00 & Esplanade

Art Pieces & Special Events: Launch Party Tuesday night / Tuesday Night at 11pm Forest Rendezvous Party with Airpusher, Icarus, and Arborearlis / Steampunk Air Ship Art Car roaming nightly

Camp Mystic

Location: 2:00 & G

Art Pieces & Special Events: Stationary installation of art pieces featuring Andre Jones, Susan Boulet, Hans Wallor, Michael Divine, Amanda Sage, and more / Mystic Flyer art car stationary at camp location / Tuesday night Transmission of Truth and Beauty Party / Saturday night Burn Party

Clody Cates, Gaige Qualmann, and Ken Griswa

Camp Location: BMIR – 5:45 & Esplanade (aka: Rod’s Rd and 115)

Art Pieces & Special Events: Keep an ear out for Ken Griswa on BMIR 94.5FM / Visit Media Mecca to see Clody and Gaige’s construction efforts and the Clown Face sculpture entryway.

Death Guild

Camp Location: 4:15 & Esplanade

Art Pieces & Special Events: Thunder Dome & Bar open nightly

Demateri-Owl

Camp Location: 7:30 Plaza

Art Pieces & Special Events: Silent Disco Wednesday thru Saturday nights / Owl Bar Monday thru Thursday nights / serving oatmeal all week 9am-10am “Playa Time”

Dr. Brainlove

Camp Location: 5:15 & Esplanade

Art Pieces & Special Events: Tuesday Night Party with Brainlove / Brain Bus Jungle Gym Art Car roaming nightly

Fire Helix by One Man Down

Location: Interior Playa off of 5:00 & Esplanade

Art Pieces and Special Events: Fire Helix is a stationary piece located in the Interior Playa shooting fire nightly.

Hangry Bishop

Camp Location: 3:00 & D

Art Pieces and Special Events: Serving Grilled Cheesus and Virgin Mary’s at 2 pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Icarus

Camp Location: 9:45 & Esplanade

Art Pieces and Special Events: Icarus Art Car roaming nightly / Tuesday Night at 11pm Forest Rendezvous Party with Airpusher, Arborealis, and the Bombus Regius / Thursday Night NYC Takeover event / Friday morning will be Dawn of Burning Man / Friday Night SF Tech-Deep House

Mack & the Hook Up Truck

Camp Location: 7:00 & D

Art Pieces and Special Events: Wednesdat Night Sex Ritual with Pangaea Project & Diva Nation / Hook Up Truck Art Car stationary at camp location

Mikell Haynes

Camp Location: Café Village

Art Pieces and Special Events: Art Piece stationary at camp location

Pangaea & the Diva Nation

Camp Location: 7:00 & D

Art Pieces and Special Events: Sexual Babel art pieces stationary at camp location / Sanctuary of Self stationary art piece at camp location / Tuesday Night Sanctuary of Self Party / Wednesday Night Sex Ritual with the Hook Up Truck

Pipe Dream

Camp Location: 4:15 and E

Art Pieces and Special Events: Hosting 2 parties: Tuesday 3-6pm Fallen Angel Party & Thursday 3-6pm Plague Party / Pipe Dream jungle gym stationary at camp location

Scarbutts Coffee

Camp Location: 9:00 Plaza

Art Pieces and Special Events: The Big Cheese art car stationary at camp location

Sextant

Camp Location: 6:30 & Esplanade

Art Pieces and Special Events: Tesla Coils operating nightly / Zip-Line running all week / Vünderbar slingin’ booze all week

Titanic’s End & Camp: Bao Chicka Wow Wow

Camp Location: 2:15 & A

Art Pieces & Special Events: Titanic’s End iceberg art car roaming throughout the day serving otter pops and fortunes. Roaming nightly serving drops of bass / Bao Chicka Wow Wow serving steamed pork buns from 2am – 5am Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Valhalla

Camp Location: 9:00 & K

Art Pieces and Special Events: Wednesday at Noon – Viking Virgin Raiding Party & Hunt

You’ll Do Detective Agency

Camp Location: Undisclosed – They’ll find you.

Art Pieces and Special Events: Mobile Detective Unit art car roaming day and night solving mysteries

Be sure to check out our good friends the Flaming Lotus Girls on the Playa. You can find their epic piece the Serpent Mother between Illumination Village at 3:45 & E and the Man himself. If you attended the Steampunk Masquerade this spring, you were treated to a special, intimate viewing of the Serpent Mother and know it’s a piece you shouldn’t miss.

See you in the desert!

Our very own WonderDave Davila intimate BDay intro celebration at NIMBY before he finally escape for a WonderFull weekend of BDay FuN!!!

Look at this beauty! Clody Cates previously occupied this fine container, expertly and vibrantly hand painted by her. It’s perfectly situated next to other talented Makers at NIMBY to inspire your every creative intention. This container is fully wired with electricity, several outlets for your mechanical wonders, has a hard line Ethernet cable for web based projects and a beautifully refinished floor. Super peep hole in the door included!

Worried the container might not be enough room for your ideas? There’s also an optional, well lit front yard work space available for a small additional fee.

Interested yet? Just Click Here to get started. This container’s just waiting for you to move right in and start some cuckoo project.

Did you miss the Trunk Show in May? Well don’t fret, true believers. Stop by the warehouse, located at 8410 Amelia St. in East Oakland, the weekend of July 11th and 12th from 11am to 6pm for your next chance to see and purchase the incredible work that’s being Made at NIMBY. In addition to seeing the fine art work, you can meet the Makers, watch live demonstrations of their work, and expect a couple of surprises along the way. Be sure to take home a piece of your own to beautify and stupefy your friends and neighbors.

RSVP and share with your buddies on Facebook by clicking here!

Featuring work by: Ken Griswa Gaige Qualmann Brandon Lee Michelle Bert Briron Raley Cals Leather Clody Cates and more!

Welcome to the new and improved NIMBY website! It was high time for the old website to bow out and a new site, full of awesomeness and other such hyperbolic wonderfulness to take over. We’ve endeavored to really hit the high points of what makes NIMBY so great and then convey that to the world though the internet. We wanted to remain true to the ragtag, scrappy, can-do spirit that you know and love about East Oakland’s biggest and best maker space, but with a fresh coat of paint, a little bit more sparkle, and some magical coding.

We’ve created six areas to help the visitors of our digital domain explore myriad aspects that make NIMBY unique and unlike any other maker space out there. After you’ve taken a look around, let us know what you think! Thanks for supporting NIMBY and all the crazy things we do here. 11 years and counting, folks!

What Is
A quick intro for visitors, new and old, to get up to date on what we do and who we are

What’s Up
Posts about NIMBY the happenings around the warehouse, our wide range of supporting groups, what’s going on in the community… basically, it’s your one stop shop to be in the know about “what’s up” at NIMBY

Made At
Galleries of all the incredible work coming from the talented makers and artists at NIMBY

Rentals
Looking for a space to bring your own project and mad, artistic endeavors to fruition? Check out what we have to offer.

Makers
A space to introduce to the world to some of the indescribably talented individuals who make NIMBY what it is.

The Store
The store is currently under construction. Check back soon for NIMBY swag and other surprises.

We’d like to give a special shout out to designer extraordinaire Clody Cates and coder par excellence Phong Long. This website would not have been possible without your amazing gifts and tireless efforts.

This year’s Build Season is under way!

Some of our stalwart camps are hard at work repairing, upgrading and giving booster shots to their mutant vehicles. Interested in helping out? Shoot us an EMAIL, and we’ll give you more info. Frantically looking for a spot to build something for this year’s party on the Playa? We might be able to squeeze you in between the makers and booty shakers already doing their thing in our backyard. CONTACT US for more info on snagging a spot before it’s too late!

Some of our talented, industrious makers and artists dropped by the office at NIMBY HQ and said, “Hey, mind if we fill up the gallery with awesome, brain exploding art to sell to people?” It took us all of two seconds to say, “Go for it!”

As word spread, the Artist Trunk Show, on May 30th and 31st, quickly became an event where the Makers at NIMBY wanted to add their work. The attendees were delighted by the array of work with several purchasing pieces to beautify their homes and stupefy visitors. Be sure to check out the gallery below for a look at some of the work featured, and don’t hesitate to contact the artists directly.

Featuring work by: Ken Griswa Gaige Qualmann Brandon Lee Briron Raley Clody Cates and more!

Here at NIMBY, we’re kind of fond of our bodacious logo, which is why you can find it all over this site, our various vehicles, hot panties (we still have some! Email us!) and stickered around town. But every now and then, we just say: BIGGER! So we put it on the roof! With a 100 foot diameter, I’m pretty sure it’s visible from space now… Ok, maybe not THAT big, but you can definitely see it from a plane and on Google Earth.

Special thanks to our project leads Clody Cates and Gaige Qualmann, and a big “You’re awesome! THANK YOU!” to our tenants and volunteers: Mack Storton, Dave Dávila, Ron Baker, Yale Wolf, Michelle Bert, Phong Long and Brandon Lee.

Extra special shout out to our friends at Urban Brothers Painting for the donation of many gallons of paint! You guys are the best.

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