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It is with great sadness that we write today about the passing of our friend and community member Kevin Manning. Kevin passed away earlier this week from injuries sustained in a hit and run accident while pedicabbing in June.

Kevin was a longtime NIMBY tenant. He was an engineer and an inventor. He worked to develop the Pump Hub, a bicycle wheel hub that would inflate a damaged tire as the wheel spun. Kevin embodied the spirit of NIMBY as a place to make, to try new things, to learn new skills,…

If you’ve been following NIMBY on Instagram (we hope you are!), then you’ve seen lots of in process shots of the projects, art cars, and art work the Makers at NIMBY have been working on diligently all year. If you’re making your way out to the desert, you can see that art in person, or at least try to… good luck trying to nail down those art car. Congratulations to this years crop of artists and Burners: YOU DID IT! Now have fun and be safe out there, everyone. You can find a larger version of…

Here at NIMBY we’re always looking for ways to improve, but sometimes once you’ve identified the problem and found the best solution, you can get tripped up on implementing that solution. We’re trying to jump start two of those solutions: improvements to our wood working space and repairs to our forklifts! To that end, we’ve started a GoFundMe campaign!

We’re trying to raise $5000, but if we raise a little bit more than $5000, we sure wouldn’t be sad about it. We’d be extremely grateful. If…

Burning Man is just days away! We’d like to thank all of our theme camps and Makers on job well done this year. You may still be trying to recover from the scrapes, bruises and sleep deprived brains, but soon it will hopefully all be worth it as you enter the Gates. We can’t wait to see your projects out in the desert.

You can find the fine folk who are NIMBY Makers all over the Playa. Use this handy list to mark your map of Black Rock City so you don’t miss a single thing. If you have early…

This past March, NIMBY was pleased to once again host a fantastic, original dance video project “Triptych: Journey Through Cancer”. As the name implies, “Triptych” is a three part artistic exploration of cancer’s impact on the cycle of life and death. Part one “Dust” was filmed at NIMBY in 2015, and Executive Producer Jen Faust, director Micah Van Hove, and the production team have just released a behind the scenes look at the filming of part two “Blood”. In the video they discuss the creative…

NIMBY was proud to once again partner with our good friends in Airpusher to put on the 4th Annual Steampunk Masquerade. The night was full of art, music, dance, aerialists, fire spinners, live music and much much more. It was a wonderful night, and we’re so thankful for all of the hard work that so many people put in to making the event such a success. Check back soon, because this is only first batch of amazing photos by the talented Marisa KM.

We hope that everyone had as much fun as we did,…

Over the last weekend in February, dozens of volunteers came out to join Oakland based artist Greg Kloehn at NIMBY to build mini homes for the homeless. A continuation of an ongoing project that’s seen Greg create dozens of mini-homes over the last several years for homeless folks in the Bay Area, the build workshop utilized reclaimed materials from the streets of Oakland, scrap from other artist’s projects, and even materials obtained from a Super Bowl After Party. At the end of the weekend,…

On February 1st, NIMBY was happy to welcome back the students from the East Bay Innovation Academy. The students came down with Ken Griswa, who’s been teaching them a unit on kinetic art. After a tour of the warehouse, the kids played some RallyBowl with Gaige Quallmann and Clody Cates before heading back to school. The following week Gaige and Clody Cates joined the students in the classroom to help them with their ongoing projects.

Check out the gallery below to watch them in action.

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Volunteers from NIMBY met up with the Block by Block Organizing Network, District 7, group (BBBOND7) on Monday January 18th for the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Volunteers from BBBOND7 cleaned up the neighborhood and planted flowers. The artists from NIMBY worked with the children to paint and place 5 flower planters to bring some color to G Street. Former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan stopped by and got in on the action, painting with the kids and lending a hand.

Special thanks to…

When the forklift goes wonky and suddenly won’t start, you get a feeling that’s somewhere between “uh-oh” and “@!$&*$@!*”. They’re sort of handy in this business. So when,our intrepid, orange Toyota needed some fixin’ and some lovin’, we put out the call.

Ron Baker, NIMBY’s resident go-to guy for all things engines and repairs, jumped in and gave the Toyota a full once-over. It’s running better than it has in quite awhile. What did he do? I have NO IDEA… engines ain’t my area, but we’re so…