This is a keycard to a maker space in downtown Cambridge. Four of them, actually. I have been awarded a membership whose monthly cost is subsidized all the way down to $0. The thing about living near Cambridge is that there is a lot of money sloshing around in this town, and the people in possession of that money understand the utility of buying good publicity. Throwing funds at artists is a really easy way to do that. The whole point of art is to create things for other people to experience. Give money to an artist, they go off and make things and then chase down publicity all by themselves, no effort required from the grantor. Access to a workspace is incredibly useful for me, because it means I no longer have to build things like this in my bedroom. That is a bata de cola , kind of, that I just used for a performance. (Writeup here .) It has 300 LEDs glued into it, and it was a bitch and a half to make, because I have no work table in here, and limited space on a carpeted floor. Wh