Over the last two weeks working with the City of Oakland has cost us another $10,000.

Below is a quick re-cap of Friday’s meeting to discuss the myriad of regulatory issues NIMBY is working through leading up to hosting our next special event.

1)  No CUP or involvement from zoning is needed for a singular special event.
2)  Next week we should have our fire inspection for group-assembly.
3)  Once we meet fire requirements for group assembly, we can re-submit our application to the police department for a special event.

In other news, we will soon be done with all of the requirements laid out in our August inspections from fire, building and hazmat.  (We paid for and requested the inspection in January, but it took 6 months to get.)

We are going to keep on trucking.  The bureaucracy and constantly changing requirements are really making this an incredibly tough process.  Having a small business in Oakland is not easy.

Please donate.  We can’t do this without everyone’s support.

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Popular Mechanics wrote a feature article in this September’s issue on DIY projects.

Backyard Geniuses: 10 Incredibly Cool DIY Projects

The top prize winner was none other than Christian Ristow’s Hand of Man.

The Hand of Man is an epic piece that spent the summer residing at NIMBY.  In the photo below it was set up in our 30,000 square foot yard for the photo shoot for this article.  Seen this summer at both Maker Faire and The Crucible’s Fire Arts Festival this piece is a huge favorite of ours.  How lucky are we to have had a private opportunity to play with this great piece?

The animatronic piece is controlled by a user perched up-high behind the sculpture.  The user wears a glove controlling the hydraulic motion of the giant hand.  The Hand of Man is strong enough to crush cars and anything else put in its way.  At shows audience members are able to take a turn picking up, dropping and crushing giant objects.  Just the kind of thing we like to see in our yard here at NIMBY.

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