Greetings from the Tesla Lives! Pulse Team. Are you a Nikola Tesla Connoisseur? Are you steampunk? Or perhaps you are merely curious as to what it’s all about.

The Pulse Team is a group of Discovery World creatives who are agents of change and wish to build up our community of creatives, autodidacts, and DIY types like you.  With Tesla Lives! we hope to inspire you, have you inspire us, and bring together cool people to be a part of a mindset where creativity, beauty, humor and innovation is the foundation of everyday life.

Connoisseur, steampunk enthusiast or eclectically curious, Tesla Lives! is for you.

Our first message is this:    We would love to have a local creative contribute with a short writing on steampunk culture. If we post your writing, we will send you a really, really cool Tesla Lives! t-shirt (designed and printed in the Discovery World Screen Printing Lab by the Alex of the Pulse Team) and some other cool swag.

Till next month…it’s not what you know. It’s what you do with what you know.

-The Tesla Lives! Pulse Team

Who the heck is Andy? Andy is better known as Professor North, the leader of session #146 (Tesla Lives!), and he is available to answer your questions about the production. We also welcome questions about the production team (how the show was developed) and responses will come directly from the creators of the show.

Want to know the names of creative spirits in the opening video? Why we chose Nikola Tesla? Who designed the neon lights in the World’s Fair bit? If Professor North has sampled the Teslatini drinks? Then ask!

Tesla Lives! has inspired so many questions about the demonstrations we use in the live show, how we put the show together and about Tesla himself that we have started a Behind the Scenes podcast series. Twice a month new videos will be added that share secrets, science, and creative knowledge with you.

An easy way to subscribe to the Tesla Lives! Podcast is through iTunes.

On Friday, October 30th, 2009, at 7pm, the Martians invade again.

Join us for our annual recreation of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater on the Air’s 1938 broadcast of The War of the Worlds by HG Wells. In the spirit of Halloween, Discovery World and WMSE 91.7 FM celebrate the 71st Anniversary of this historic broadcast with a live cast, music and cash bar.

The performance will be simulcast live on WMSE 91.7 FM. Come early and stay late to catch Milwaukee’s own John The Savage playing at 6:30 and 8:00pm. Doors open at 6:15pm.

• Members: $5.00
• Non-members: $7.00

Here some samples of the shirts designed and printed in the Discovery World Screen Printing Lab by Alex. Shirts are available in black or gray, and read “Tesla Lives! – Discovery World, Milwaukee, WI” on the back.

Discovery World and Milwaukee are toasting the birth of Serbian-American inventor, Nikola Tesla.

Enter your Tesla cocktail recipe and the first 10 entries receive a Tesla Lives! t-shirt.

Who is Nikola Tesla?
Nikola Tesla (1865-1943) harnessed the power of Niagara Falls and electrified the world. He invented the robot, the alternating current motor, radio, the remote control, neon lights, the Death Ray, and the spark plug. In other words, Nikola Tesla invented our modern world.

We know you are creative, dynamic innovators in your own right. We’d like you to invent the Nikola Tesla, a Tesla-themed martini or cocktail. Scroll to bottom of the page to see the recipe board with the first three entries that were served at the August 19 event.

Submit your entry in the forum.

Rules:

1. Your drink must contain Tesla’s name in its name.
2. We recommend that the drink contains one of the following, Absinthe, Slivovitz or electricity, but it’s your concoction so feel free to add what you like.

Information:

Create a drink. Share it’s mixology with other Tesla connoisseurs. Post your creation in the forum.

• The first 10 entries will receive one Tesla Lives! T-shirt and two Tesla Lives! show passes
• We’ll serve your recipe at our next VIP show or fundraising events

Help Discovery World give Nikola Tesla the celebration he deserves. For more information, contact Colleen Wendorff @ 765-8657.

Entering:

Submit your entry in the forum.
 

There is one section of the show where we describe Tesla’s grand finale to his demonstration at the World’s Fair, and how he shot electricity from his fingertips. At that point, we project lightning onto the back wall to give an idea of what that effect might look like, but there is no actual electricity coming from the presenter’s fingers at that point. That demonstration is extremely difficult to perform safely, and to try and recreate it several times a day, in a show as fast-moving as Tesla Lives!, would be magnificently dangerous.

We don’t fake ANY demonstrations during the show. Everything you see onstage is absolutely real – we really light up a flourescent bulb wirelessly, throw and catch lightning, conduct electricity through HUMAN BEINGS, and all the rest. One of our goals for the show was to stay away from trickery and mystery. While we do a lot of flashy stuff onstage, and can create some amazing visual effects with the equipment we have, we also do our best to explain the science behind everything the audience sees. Obviously, due to time constraints we can’t go into as much detail as we’d like sometimes, but that’s what this website is for.

Check out the Videos section for a more in-depth look at some of the equipment and effects we employ during the show. And keep asking questions!