Oakland, Calif.-based artist Sean Orlando will create a permanent artwork for Fire Station 32 in the West Seattle Junction. The new fire station will be built at the existing location, 3715 W. Alaska St., and will be the lead station for Battalion VII, which covers all of West Seattle, southwest Seattle, Harbor Island and the [...]

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 heavy lifting that the individual artist couldn’t do on [...]

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 expeditions, and conjectural artworks, Orlando and Rebar will examine [...]

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 city, yet art cars called Mutant Vehicles are encouraged [...]

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., the home and 40-foot metal tree it sits in were  created almost [...]

SF Photoblog post by Scott Hess I’m walking along the waterfront and the energy is powerful, fresh and uplifting.  The images and happenings flowing by me now feel like the whole world is lifting off in joyous flight. The Raygun Gothic Rocketship from the 2009 Burning Man festival has landed in a prime spot near [...]