Art and Science Punks

Episode 81: What-Cha-Makin'

May 5th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  34 mins 8 secs

arcade, coaching, coding, comics, creativity, illustration, science, teaching, workshop

This week Kate and Rob talk about what they've been working on, creative projects and products wise. One made an in person workshop work as a virtual event, the other illustrated an arcade cabinet. Also, Rob is just really into journaling.

This week's art and science picks: one is a coloring activity from a science comic and the other is a creative way to make music with code.

Episode 80: Learning from Life

March 31st, 2020  |  Season 4  |  57 mins 31 secs

art, coding, creativity, nasa, quarantine, science

This week Kate and Rob discuss extra picks for things we found fun and educational in art and science in recent weeks. Also, we talk about what we're learning so far by sheltering in place for the COVID-19 pandemic.

This week's art and science picks: a friendly browser coding tool, an ephemeral event, a gassy planet situation and more space learnings.

Episode 55: A Wild InstaPot Appears

October 16th, 2018  |  Season 3  |  58 mins 53 secs

art, coding, cooking, family, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks Kate and Rob talk about what we forshadowed in recent episodes: Kate's adventures with the InstaPot, some things she's made with it, how it's fairly old technology in a new package.

Kate and Rob also share an art pick and a science pick this week: one is a craft with code and data; the other is a craft with yarn and twigs.

Episode 42: Family Computing Literacy

October 17th, 2017  |  Season 2  |  38 mins 1 sec

art, coding, creativity, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks Kate and Rob discuss what we think of as useful and fun computer literacy for our family.

Kate and Rob also share an art pick and a science pick this week: one (set of picks) is about detailed coloring books, the other is a couple picks about fun visual ways to get comfortable with coding.

Episode 34: Art and Science Punks Season One Finale

July 2nd, 2017  |  28 mins 52 secs

art, astronomy, coding, creativity, illustration, science, sketching

In this episode of Art and Science Punks Kate and Rob discuss "seasoning" the podcast, some of the approach and benefits of adding a seasonal flow to a project.

Kate and Rob also share an art pick and a science pick this week one about learning more about Jupiter's big storm and the others about sketching with code and with drawing by hand.

Episode 27: Relevant Elephant

May 14th, 2017  |  51 mins 53 secs

art, coding, crafts, creativity, family, music, psychology, science, sewing

In this episode of Art and Science Punks Kate and Rob discuss "Stuff You Feel Like You Should Know" ranging from psychology to coding to more than one spoken language and reading music.

Kate and Rob also explore an art pick and a science pick this week related to coding+hardware and sewing.

Episode 18: A Sad Lego Shack

March 13th, 2017  |  41 mins 23 secs

art, coding, creativity, learning, legos, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks, Kate and Rob discuss Legos, learning through step-by-step paint by numbers style instructions like those included in modern Lego sets, and futher ask: how do those instructions help learning or get in the way of creativity?

Episode 12: Encouragement and Sinking Oranges

January 30th, 2017  |  41 mins 53 secs

art, coding, encouragement, experiments, gamedesign, learning, psychology, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks, Kate and Rob discuss a few perspectives on encouragement from self to family and to collaborators. Also: follow-up on the sink/float experiment from episode 10.