Madagascar Institute

May Welding Class Schedule!

Becky Stern — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:17:33 +0000

Interested in taking a welding class? We’ve got some new ones coming up! Check out our Eventbrite page for the full lineup.

Wed May 3, 7-10 pm
Intermediate MIG welding w/ Mike
$60

Sat May 12, 11am-6pm
6 hour MIG/TIG combo w/ Jim
$125

Tues. May 22, 7-10pm
Beginning TIG welding w/ Jim
$60

(Photo and class review by Nick Normal)

Jim’s MIG/TIG class: welding success!

Becky Stern — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:57:24 +0000

Thanks to all the participants who learned to weld at Jim’s MIG/TIG combo class today at the shop! Sparks flew all afternoon at Jim’s multiple welding stations. Want to take a class? Check out our Eventbrite calendar.

Hackett in NY Times

cautionMike — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:45:47 +0000

Art Star number 1, Hackett, was recently profiled in the NY Times.

Take a Class

cautionMike — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 15:03:31 +0000

Pretentious artspeak dragging you down? Looking for something fun and different, without too much commitment? You’ve come to the right place. Here at Madagascar Institute, we give great art with out the fear of commitment. Our classes are up close and personal, short and cheap. Just like you like them.

Coming up this next Sunday, March 18, learn quick and dirty etching the Mada way.
Lindsay will teach you the Hackett-honed art of home etching. In this class you will be able to make a beautiful, brag-worthy etching on a steal or brass plate with household materials and high school chemistry.

And if you just came for the welding, well we’ve got that too.
Tabitha is teaching intro to MIG welding the following Saturday, March 24.
If you haven’t been down to the shop lately, we have a new MIG welder.
Come use it.

Go to our classes page to sign up through eventbrite.

If you just want to check out the shop, check our calendar for open shop days.

Come ride the 360 Swing at the Great Indoors!

Boris Klompus — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:39:24 +0000

We are running the 360 Swing at the Swimming Cities fundraiser party at the Gowanus Ballroom

Come do everything that you’ve always wanted to do on a swing, and party!

THE GREAT INDOORS

BLACK FRIDAY NOV 26

AT THE GOWANUS BALLROOM

DJs Dirtyfinger (Blacklabel)

$mall ¢hange (Rubulad)

Uproot Andy (Bulgarian Bar)

It’s wilder than the outdoors. Work off your Thanksgiving love handles in a 12,000-square-foot indoor adventureland! Zip lines, hot dog skeet shooting, heated pool, non-conventional exercise machines, croquet, ping pong, badminton, dirty uncle pony rides, bike blender smoothies. maple/ bacon infused shots. GUARANTEED FULLLON IDIASSY

9PM-10PM OPEN BAR . 3AM-3:30AM FREE SHOTS

55 9th Street. bldg 61, Brooklyn.

F or G to Smith/9th St.

$15 cover, $10 with costume or Thanksgiving leftovers, $5 before 11pm.

Dress: “hunting casual.”

“If the gods intended for us to venture beyond the ballroom they would not have so generously filled it with liquor”

- L. Ron Hubbard

Propane Propelled Gyroscopes – The Ride of the Future

Boris Klompus — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 16:40:03 +0000

Looking to add a little thrill to your chrome future?

My next project is an amusement device, based on those from the
past also wishing to push the envelope (be sure to snoop around the referenced by links for some great stuff):
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT846925,

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=TChzAAAAEBAJ&dq=3141669,

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=Dcc0AAAAEBAJ, with a fiery
twist.

It will be a gyroscope ride – 3 gimbals, with a rider inside -
however, each gimbal will have a propane cannon attached, top and
bottom, facing opposite directions. The rider, mounted inside the
inner most gimbal, will have throttle controls in each hand, bars with
big red buttons, giving control over direction and thrust, to propel
the gimbal rings and him or herself for a hell of a ride. The desired
effect is not only to allow the rider to experience a gyroscopic
effect, but also to send the fiery cannons spinning overhead, in the
periphery, and in front and behind. The ride will be hot.

Building a materials rack

Boris Klompus — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:49:08 +0000

Go Lindsay & Gaylen!

Back Door fixed!!

mkryza — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:11:02 +0000

a resounding thank you to Gaylen, Boris, and Mary Beth for fixing the backdoor. It has been talked about for so long, and it is a radical difference from what it was. Thank you thank you thank you!!!!

Women

mkryza — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:47:30 +0000

Connoisseurs…

mkryza — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 13:46:30 +0000