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Meet the Makers
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Meet the Makers: Dan Green, Institute For Aesthetic Modulation
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Dan Green's work is sculpture and performance at the same time. He manipulates keyboards and phone cords and crab shells into costumes that are easily anthropomorphized. He is a passionate maker, and a passionate father.
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Meet the Makers: Death Defying Pedal Car Figure 8 Races
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The members of the Fun Bike Unicorn Club are bringing Death Defying Figure 8 Pedal Car Races to Maker Faire Bay Area 2012. Inspired by old-school pedal carts, the club started building and of course the desire to race followed. In the spirit of healthy, and perhaps reckless, competetion, The Unicorns will be shredding around the track racing not only eachother, but anyone else who has brought a car to race. The rules are simple, don't spend too much money, build it yourself, and brakes are mandatory! To learn more about the races, visit http://blog.makezine.com/maker/fun-bike-unicorn-club/
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Giant Metal Fire Breathing Dragon: Gon Kirin
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Meet Ryan Doyle, the co-creator of Gon KiRin, a 69' fire-breathing dragon. Ryan learned to create in many mediums while working in his grandmother's doll hospital, and took his recycled art-car-dragon to Detroit to finish it amid the artifacts of American auto manufacturing. -
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Random Objects, Carefully Curated: The Museum of Interesting Things
by MakerFaireVideo 7,594 views
Denny Daniel is the creator and curator of the Museum of Interesting Things. At first glance these mundane objects from throughout history seem disjointed and random, until you realize that the common thread is inspiration and innovation.
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Cache of old Silkscreens Inform Designs of Cyberoptix TieLab
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Bethany Shorb of Cyberoptix TieLab recently acquired a stash of old used silkscreens to be reclaimed and reused to print her tie designs. But a closer inspection revealed something too interesting to wash out, and these industrial cast-offs generate some truly unique ties. -
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Carlos Nielbock: Metalworking Master Craftsman
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Carlos Nielbock is a Master Craftsman in architectural ornamental metalwork and design. He started his craft as an apprentice in a German monastery, then trained further in the ancient Journeyman tradition. In this video he shows his replica of the 1862 World's Fair welcome gate, his Low Altitude Wind Turbine, and passion for ancient bronze castings from Benin.
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Metalheads at Maker Faire Detroit
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Joe Sandor and the crew from Chicago Crucible demonstrate an iron pour at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. These metalheads collected metal from old radiators and coke from a Detroit power plant and then fired up the furnace. They poured the molten steel into a watermelon and other decorative molds, which were created at the Faire.
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Power Racing Series - Preparing for Maker Faire Detroit
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The makers at i3Detroit prepare for the Power Racing Series at Maker Faire Detroit 2011. They hope to defend their title and take the trophy back home. More info: http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/3343
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Meet the Makers: Todd Williams
by MAKE 15,728 views
Todd Williams is jewelry maker with a fine hand, a sculpture maker with a wit, and a performer trickster. He might spend 200 or 300 hours perfecting one of his incredible Land Sharks but the real work comes when he brings them out to play. His sculptures are animations that interact with people at events like Burning Man and Coachella by chasing each other through the crowds. While the chassis of the sharks is a remote control monster truck, you can't just drive a Land Shark, you have to become a Land Shark.
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Meet the Makers: Jordan Champagne
by MAKE 25,608 views
Jordan Champagne, owner of Happy Girl Kitchen, is a preservationist. She cherishes reclaimed wood, she only plays records in her shop, and she has a giant Velvet Elvis in her office. But her real skills are in preserving food. The things that she puts into jars are real, whole foods, that are often truly living.
See Happy Girl Kitchen, and make your own jar of living Sauerkraut to take home, at the Homegrown Village, Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22.
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Meet the Makers: Maurice Connolly
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Maurice Connolly built a 300 lb steel sculpture and dropped it off a cliff. He pitted his art against gravity, just to see what would happen. The piece is a massive sphere called Ganymede- constructed from recycled wine barrel hoops and hundreds and hundreds of bolts. Once Maurice mastered the material and perfected the form, he turned his curiosity towards force, motion, and the nature of unpredictability.
Maurice's freshly distorted sphere will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22. You can meet him and ask about tensile strength, conical strips of steel, and what it feels like to drop your art off a cliff. -
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Meet the Makers: Christina McFall
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Christina McFall is obsessed with color, texture, form, and chemical reactions. She approaches the art of cyanotype printing with the mind of a scientist, carefully recording tests and cataloging results. She hand draws and tessellates patterns with her tablet to produce her negatives. Her innovative printing methods harness UV light to create Prussian Blue prints on fabric. She then hacks the dye with various treatments to induce a rainbow of unexpected results. Ultimately she creates beautiful and useful pieces with the prints. Meet Christina McFall and get an up-close view of her intricate textiles at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22.
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Meet the Makers: Nirav Patel
by MAKE 19,648 views
Nirav Patel is literally making things with a wave of his hand. Harnessing a hacked Kinect, he has written a program for "Gestural 3D Printing". He calls the project "inane and irrelevant" but it is actually a perfect, shining example of creative ingenuity!
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Meet the Makers: Meredith Scheff
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The first thing Meredith Scheff ever made was, and I quote, "Probably a mess!". She quickly moved onto creating things much more worthwhile. Her North Star Skirt was one of the most interesting projects at the Maker Faire last year. Meredith defies description as a comic book-writing-soft circuit-designing-soldering-sewing-creative force.
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Meet The Makers: Sung Kim
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Sung Kim's father gave him his first skil saw when he was just seven years old. His mother provided him with modeling clay as a safer alternative not long after that. Sung's grandfather-in-law, ship builder Dean Stevens, left him a coveted collection of hand tools decades later. These influences shaped his abilities as a woodworker, but his desire to create sound formed him into a Maker.
Sung Kim, his collection of instruments, and a very ambitious secret project will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22. There you can hear Sung perform and bask in the intricate structures of his Sympathetic Cannon, The Si-Tarzan, and the Ox. -
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Meet the Makers: Lightchimes
by MAKE 23,894 views
Jimmy Chion, Jason Chua, and Kiran Malladi are the creators of Lightchimes, 169 hanging LED pendants. The circuit is simple, but the results are complex. This project is about interaction- without interference from a participant, the lights would never shine. Similarly, without collaborative interaction, this project would never have become a reality.
Lightchimes will be at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, where you can experience the mesmerizing twinkling firsthand. -
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Meet the Makers: Satya Kraus
by MAKE 29,936 views
Learn how Satya Kraus felt when he saw a motorcycle for the first time in his life. Since that moment, he has been obsessed, and turned that obsession into Kraus Motor Co. He hand-builds the most incredible machines from scratch in his workshop under the redwoods.
Experience Satya's remarkable bikes at Maker Faire Bay Area, May 21 & 22, 2011.
