Bay Area Scene:
Gray Area (formerly GAFFTA)
SUPWITHDAT (my curated SF art + tech events calendar)
Artist Examples:
Creative Coding Frameworks:
Bonus: Kinect + openFrameworks Hacking Course @ Gray Area (online recording)
Technical Skill Building:
Adafruit Industries (pricey, but good tutorials)
TechShop (access to CAD/CAM machines, plus classes)
Recommended Creativity Resources:
99% Invisible (great design podcast)
99% Invisible - All In Your Head podcast episode
Song Exploder (great music creativity podcast)
TED Radio Hour: Why Would More Than 500 Artists Sample The Same Song?
Creative Blogs:
The Creator's Project (a bit like BuzzFeed now)