Art and Science Punks

Episode 86: Different Approach to Halloween

November 2nd, 2020  |  Season 4  |  27 mins 31 secs

art, bats, celebrating, covid19, design, family, halloween, holidays, iot, research, science, splatoon, video editing

This week Kate and Rob discuss our approach designing different ways to celebrate Halloween. Also: it's looking like be applying this approach to the next few holidays.

This week's art and science picks: one is about a flying creature, the other is about video editing.

Episode 85: 3D Printing and Some Personal Cancer News

August 30th, 2020  |  Season 4  |  41 mins 18 secs

3d, 3dprinting, art, cancer, cooking, design, donuts, family, future, makers, science, writing

This week Kate and Rob discuss our slow skill building to using our 3D printer: from modeling with Tinkercad to slicing with Cura and even learning a little Gcode. Also: we talk about how we recently learned Kate has breast cancer and she's begun chemotherapy.

This week's art and science picks: one is about crafting delicious donuts, the other is about writing positive futures.

Episode 47: Everyone Can Draw

November 21st, 2017  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 53 secs

art, creativity, design, drawing, programming, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks Kate interviews Rob about his belief that the ability to draw is something available to most anyone. Beyond that, drawing is incredibly useful especially when representing concepts with simple shapes.

Kate and Rob also share an art pick and a science pick this week: one is a little programmable robot; the other is a font.

Episode 19: Game Design for Teamwork and Hustle

March 20th, 2017  |  46 mins 29 secs

art, coaching, creativity, design, family, feedback, gamedesign, games, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks, Kate and Rob discuss using game design as a way to give ourselves feedback on our own tasks, goals, and when we're coaching our kids. That's an experiment we call "teamwork and hustle" or "let's try this to see if this makes our morning routine suck less". As we do, we wrap up the show with an art pick and science pick of things we've found fun and useful.

Episode 10: Design Thinking

January 16th, 2017  |  43 mins 16 secs

animation, art, creativity, design, gamedev, picks, science

In this episode of Art and Science Punks, Kate and Rob discuss using Design Thinking as a way to create and try alternatives when we're feeling stuck. Also: an art pick and science pick as a way to share fun, useful, and interesting resources!