Bees

Today Mr. Foxypants and I auditioned as beekeepers for a Kashi commercial. We were recruited by a local casting company through our bee club blog. I don’t know if any other actual beekeepers auditioned today, but the lobby of the casting company was full of actors auditioning for the beekeeper part. They were all wearing [...]

Two great things that go great together: beekeeping and THE ROCKFORD FILES! This episode aired in 1974. Sadly, 37 years later, beekeepers are still facing the same issues. On an amusing side note, David Chase, the creator of THE SOPRANOS, was a writer and producer on THE ROCKFORD FILES. If you watch THE ROCKFORD FILES, [...]

With a Little Help of the Bees by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny was part of Droog‘s Smart Deco 2 Show at Milan 07. Libertiny made the vase shaped hive by building a wax infrastructure that the bees then colonized, building a their comb around it. Libertiny calls the process “slow prototyping”–it took 40,000 [...]

I met Candace Kita when she showed up at our November garage sale for the sole purpose of buying my Hello Kitty Sandwich Maker. (Insert asian girl joke here). Candace interviewed me about producing movies and beekeeping for the February issue of Asiance Magazine. Career: Max Wong – Beekeeper (Asiance Magazine)

Artist Karen Ingham, with the help of technologists at the Welsh Centre for Printing and Coating, has developed Pollinator Frocks, a limited edition, unisex clothing collection made from specially designed textiles that have been treated with a “nectar-like” solution. The wearable food trucks *cough* I mean dresses will, allegedly, keep bees and other pollinators fed [...]

This is the best email I’ve gotten all year! from: annenbergfoundation.org to: my roman apartment date: Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 4:23 PM subject: Intended grant on behalf of the Metabolic Studio Dear Max, On behalf of the Metabolic Studio and Annenberg Foundation Director, I am delighted to advise you that the Foundation intends to [...]