ZOO NEWS

5 August 2008
Article in The Denver Post!

2 August 2008
The particles get a thumbs-up in Nature magazine (UK).

28 July 2008
Thanks to the nice people at CERN, the particles were given to the Nobel laureates in physics at the Lindau, Germany
conference earlier this month. I couldn't be more honored. Photo gallery.

Nobel winners David Gross and George Smoot pose with their particles in Lindau.

22 July 2008
No decent website is complete without a blog, right? Here is the new Particle Zoo blog.

11 July 2008
We're off to San Francisco to peddle the particles at the fair. The first batch of orders from the blogstorm will be shipping today, finally! Whew...Thanks to all my friends (and some neighbors) for working at the particle production studio the past 10 days.

7 July 2008
jamescronen.com

6 July 2008
blogstorm continues:
toycyte

3 July 2008
From Prof. Dr. David Gross in his lecture at the Lindau Nobel laureate meeting
on July 3, 2008, on hopes for the Large Hadron Collider:
"The discovery of supersymmetry... that is the discovery of quantum dimensions of spacetime. We will be
observing–as we always do–using both our eyes and our minds, new quantum dimensions of space and time.
We have a wonderful theory of elementary particles, but the best is yet to come."

1 July 2008
blogged:
neatorama
geekologie
oh gizmo!
everything below $29.99

25 June 2008

I am excited to announce Seed magazine reviewed The Particle Zoo in the new July/August 2008 issue (#17). My only regret is that they ordered particles in February so the ones pictured are old old old and "not my best work" but I'm overjoyed nonetheless! Please notice a down quark in their photographic collage on the facing page to the contents. I never knew that my interest in space and physics would lead endless days and nights of ironing and sewing. Click each for larger.

24 June 2008

The particles are reviewed in Plastic and Plush Designer Toy News and Reviews.

18 June 2008

I have added two new particles: the W boson and the Z boson, short-lived but very necessary li'l guys. Thanks to the wonderful Phil Tanedo for his help in formulating these additions to the Zoo. How did the Zoo live without siblings Z and W for so long?

16 June 2008

Good news! The Particle Zoo has been accepted to be a vendor in the Renegade Craft Fair July 12-13 in San Francisco!
We'll be in booth #82 both days. This a juried event so I am excited to have the opportunity to sell the particles at one of the
busiest DIY craft fairs in the country. From their site:
"The Renegade Craft Fair is a unique DIY event held 4 times a year in Brooklyn, Chicago and San Francisco. RCF has gained a reputation over the last five years as being the biggest, best and the most well-known of all the DIY craft fairs out there. Each individual fair draws hundreds of applicants and tens of thousands of shoppers from all over the country and abroad! At the RCF you'll find all sorts of cool handmade stuff ranging from comic books to craft kits, silkscreened posters to reconstructed clothing."

12 April 2008

New and improved particles! The Zoo now have different colored backs
It makes them cuter, especially the Tau, who sports a brown bear-like fuzzy pelt (and sort of looks like a cookie):

I attended a UCLA lecture entitled "What's New In Physics 2008" and so it mayb almost be time to
start the supersymmetric partner particles. No one has actually seen them, buy we hear they're polite.

5 April 2008

Physics World, the magazine of the Institute of Physics in the U.K., has reviewed The Particle Zoo (print edition only).

jpg | pdf

13 March 2008

The particle popularity chart is up, containing some surprising and some not surprising statistics.
Who knew a Tau would be so popular? Please order more Gluons, they are taking it personally!

4 March 2008

I've returned from a wonderful trip to Japan to find many orders waiting for me and the particles blogged on:
fliptomato.wordpress.com
cosmicvariance.com
craftzine.com
mutablematter
chicalashaw's blog
physicsforums.com
Geek Girl blog catalog
physicality of words blog
elastojam
scintilla
patti haskins

We didn't get to the Kamiokande in Gifu, Japan, but a particle collider/research facility world tour is being daydreamed about.
I am looking forward to two UCLA Extension one-day classes this spring: "What New In Physics" and "Extremophiles to Exoplanets." Who knows, maybe some new particle ideas will come out of the lecture.

3 February 2008

30 November 2007
A big batch of particles were shown at Truxtop Gallery in Silverlake as part of their "Winter Wanderland" show.

Sonny surveys particles on display amongst other plushies at the show.

18 November 2007
The particles made their debut at the Arroyo Art Walk in Highland Park, California on November 18, 2007.
Thanks to Kelly Thompson for hosting this annual event!

Particles debut