Venue/Location: OMSI, 1945 SE Water Ave., Phone: 503-797-4000
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 - 7:00 PM
OMSI After Dark:
Chic Geeks: Fashion, Music and the Science of Style
Admission: $9.00 Members / $15.00 Non-Members / FREE for OMSI After Dark Members
21+ only
PDX! Come and flaunt your thick-framed glasses and peg-legged little hipster jeans! See what curious forms a sub woofer can coax from Oobleck, get a Henna tattoo, and make a duct tape wallet. Check out the future of fashion with local designers and go old-school with music on the Gameboy with chiptunes.
Interactive Demos and Activities:
Duct Tape Wallets – Is there anything duct tape can't do?
Gimme Distortion! – How does that crazy guitar pedal work?
Paper Plate Speaker – Learn about electromagnets and DIY audio!
Oobleck Monster – Non-Newtonian fluids being blasted with bass?!
What's the Frequency? – Test your the power of your ears, Kenneth!
Chaldni Plate – See resonance patterns as sand vibrates against these metal plates!
The evening will also feature performances by Blue Skies for Black Hearts (9:00pm) and Lost Lander (10:00pm) as a part of the OMSI After Dark Summer Concert Series.
For more information, visit omsi.edu/afterdark.