User:Stella

Contact Info

• 415.272.9611
• maledictive@gmail.com
• https://twitter.com/maledictive
• http://maledictive.livejournal.com/

Education

Formal studies in:

• Fine arts, emphasis in printmaking
• Graphic & industrial design
• Anthropology
• Human sexuality, emphasis in Foucaultian theory and social construction of sexual deviancy

Projects

Urban Assault Vehicle

Dougygyro and I have a 20' 1972 Winnebago Brave motorhome that we are in the middle of making incredibly awesome notes on it here.

As Dougy puts it:

   * It of course is requiring some mechanical upkeep, but this vehicle is older by far than the vast majority of NB members and is arguably in better shape.
   * We are installing an EVDO card, WiFi router, new speakers on the inside, KVM mounted to a wall, on board computer for music/movies, PA system outside, lots of lights...
   * We are painting the whole thing matte silver on the outside, medical white on the inside, blackout fabric curtains, lots of fans...
   * We are making a permanent bar in the rear, and maybe install a beer keg and/or absinthe fountain.
   * Basically we are making the best possible place EVAR to hang out at Burning Man during a dust storm. 

It's putting the RV back in RIVET

Rathskellar

Rathskellar is the ridiculously stupid and awesome Burning Man theme camp I'm involved with. 2009 is the first year of the camp in this permutation, and as such is incredibly raw - I fully anticipate it taking at least a complete year to determine exactly what we're doing with it. It is intended at this point to be somewhere between a mad scientist's laboratory and a dieselpunk's garage - what happens when subversive chemists and motorcycle mechanics get drunk and creative. At this time (06/23/09) we have 110 gallons of alcohol brewing - a test batch for what we intend to serve to the masses out in the middle of the desert. I hope to get a few scary-looking props built for the bar, and to improvise our existing alcohol distribution and cooling systems.

Interests

Everything is temporarily on hold until Burning Man is over. The above projects and maintaining pseudosanity are currently my top priorities.

Electronics

• Soldering
• Basic circuitry

EX250

• Stripping down my little Kawasaki EX250 into a mini-streetfighter for personal amusement

Miscellaneous

• I make weird squeaky sounds when excited, especially when there's food involved
• I brew my own alcohol (no distilling as yet, much as I'd like to)
• I am a little too interested in electricity and explosions
• Discordian, Pastafarian
• Bavarian Illuminati Motorcycle Cabal President
• Occasional beer wench
• I tend to get sucked into helping others in their projects, and seem to have little time for my own
• I ride (and maintain, modify, and repair when I can) motorcycles and am a closet hooligan
• I like to make lists and organize things
• Intense curiosity and a short attention span leads me to being a jack of all trades and master of none
• I am an enabler of subversive activities and random acts of silliness