Sophena Kwon and Aaron Nazrul pose in front of the Boom Boom Bus and the new backdrop.

No, these are not natural dyes. These are Procion MX dyes, and they are exactly what you need for a quick and colourful - intensely colourful - backdrop for a six-piece Latin-soul-funk-rock-reggae band. Sophena takes us through the process:

One team from APSC 263 (L-R) Joon Hyuk (Martin) Jung, Umair Rana, Moses Chan, and Sungjin Kim.

This is a follow-up post to our New Challenges for 2011 post, where we outlined four artisan-related engineering problems given to students at the University of British Columbia (UBC). On April 5, 2011, students presented solutions in a poster session. We had outlined the problems on March 8th, thus giving students a little more than a month to design, research, and present their ideas.

It's rare that we do two posts on Maiwa East in a row, but there is so much arriving right now that we wanted to share some of the highlights. Each of our items is unique. All have personality.