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Warhorses. At Dally in the Alley Festival. Detroit, Michigan. Mike Alexander (left) and EZ Myers(right). September 7th, 2019.
In this week’s art maker class with Natalina, we started with a bit of qi gong, then had a conversation in french about objects around us in our home and garden. We then switched to Arduino programming and learned how to make a servo motor move. She assembled the hardware, reviewed the servo code and updated it to try different speeds for the motor. She keeps getting more fluent in both French and Arduino — two languages she wasn’t very comfortable with before. I think these weekly lessons are helping, and I am really happy with her progress.
We also discussed our next steps for Violet’s Journey, the fairy tale video that we are creating with her art ducks — which we have turned into poetic robots. We reviewed our options for the backgrounds that the ducks will glide in front of, and decided to start by printing one of our photo backgrounds onto a large vinyl banner, then shooting some test scenes against that backdrop, to see if this type of physical compositing with printed scenes will work. We also talked about the need for ’skirts’ to cover the robot bases, and looked at different ways to give Violet rainbow-colored feathers, using illuminated fiber optic strands that just came in from China.
Here’s our Arduino Guide for these classes: bit.ly/arduino-workshop-guide
View more photos of Violet’s Journey and the Wonderbots experiment: bit.ly/wonderbot-photos
These are the final decals for the Maker Faire this weekend. Think the metallic cyan ink really set off the tile. Come out and learn how to apply the decals!
I am attending the Houston Mini Maker Faire. Come on out and learn about how I create all the figures I make. I will be demonstrating decaling, pressure casting, and vacuum forming, and many other techniques. Will be discussing adding lights, sound, and movement to your minifigures as well. Want the details?
this is a picture of Jasmine my grandaughter making large bubbles....l think it almost looks like she is inside it
Nashville, Tennessee
See more images from this venture on my blog: www.shutteringthrulife.com/no-rhyme-no-reason-nashville-s...
Olympus OM1
Olympus OM Zuiko 50mm f1.8
Kodak TRI-X 400
FINDLab
Second Picture in my Winter Monster set
Sculpted in Zbrush. Edited in Photoshop.
How imaginative are you?
Our Maker Art class created a Haunted House in fall 2016. In this after-school workshop at the Lycée Français, students ages 7 to 10 built a fantasy world together, with magical creatures, ghosts, witches and other spooky characters.
We combined arts and technology to bring their creations to life: each student created their own room in our haunted house, and animated their characters with motors and simple mechanisms, adding lights and sounds to tell their stories.
Students started by designing their rooms and characters, and built them in their own cardboard ‘wonderboxes.’ We then asked them to sketch up their individual visions of the Haunted House and combined them together. Children worked in teams to build some of the more complex features: a clock tower, an elevator and an animated graveyard zombie, all powered with Arduino boards.
I’m very grateful to my associate teachers for this class: Sarah Brewer and Edward Janne were amazing partners and empowered our students to create their own interactive art, helping them bring their ideas to life in a playful way that made learning more fun.
We taught this class weekly at the Lycée Français in Sausalito, with 8 school students in grades 3, 4 and 5. We met every Thursday at 3:30pm, from September 15 to December 8, 2016. Many of the materials we used in this class were prepared at Tam Makers, our makerspace in Mill Valley.
Learn more about our Haunted House class:
View more photos of our Haunted House class:
bit.ly/haunted-house-2016-photos
See our Haunted House course slides:
bit.ly/haunted-house-2016-slides
Learn more about our Maker Art programs:
Windows Movie Maker is a movie editing software that is free from Microsoft. It is available on most PCs but can also be downloaded.
Today marks the final day of the Unknown Maker project. This project started in spring 2021 and it started all with a stack of tea towels that were around 100 years old. All the items in the book were found in thrift stores, on fleamarkets or gifted to me. There are examples of crochet, knitting, lace, tatting and embroidery.
All the items in the photographs are hidden in pockets. These trimmings are hidden in the pocket with the green embroidered blocks.
There is a video of the book but it is too long to put on Flickr. Here is the link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKf2Mfn0dk
Maker's Mark Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whisky
Strobist Info: Bottle is in a light tent. Godox AD200 with fresnel head at 1/128 power behind the light tent. Godox TT350O bare at 1/64 power illuminating the label. Triggered with Godox XT1O.
I masked out the background and replaced it with a white fill layer.
Maker Faire is the Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement. It’s a place where people show what they are making, and share what they are learning.
Makers range from tech enthusiasts to crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers. They are of all ages and backgrounds. The aim of Maker Faire is to entertain, inform, connect and grow this community.
The original Maker Faire was held in San Mateo, CA and in 2013 celebrated its eighth annual Bay Area event with some 900 makers and 120,000 people in attendance. World Maker Faire New York, the other flagship event, has grown in four years to 600+ makers and 75,000 attendees. Detroit, Kansas City, Rome, Oslo, Tokyo, Newcastle (UK), and Shenzhen are the home of "featured" 2014 Maker Faires (200+ makers), and almost 100 community-driven, independently organized Mini Maker Faires are now being produced around the United States and the world, including right here in Portland.
Photo by Gia Goodrich
Oberlin College students sold handmade wares at a summer semester Maker's Market in the Science Center bowl.
Photo by Mike Crupi
Maker Faire Rome Campaign.
Backstage: Call for Makers -shooting.
Project team: Giorgio Olivero, Vincenza De Nigris, Alessandsro Argenio, Luca Zanconi.
We do "Meet Your Makers" portraits from time to time in XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China xinchejian.com
CANON EF 50 f1,4 and Russian HELIOS 44-2 58 f2 seen with JUPITER-9 and KENKO DGX MC4 1,4x converter. 3 frame HDR out of the cam.
Maker Faire 2017 was bigger, louder and hotter than previous years. Many of the attractions were still the same, but they felt more grown up. I particularly enjoyed the illuminated art in the Dark Room, such as Peter Hudson’s 3D Stroboscopic Zoetrope. I also enjoyed all the ingenious robot exhbits and the Traveling Spectacular’s vaudeville performance
I gave a talk about our Maker Art classes on Sunday morning. We teach children to create magical worlds together, combining art, tech and storytelling. Our students get really engaged in the process, which helps them develop their creative, problem-solving and social skills.
The presentation was well received by a great group of teachers, parents and kids. I connected with several librarians and teachers interested in teaching Maker Art in their communities. And one mom reached out to me afterwards to say this was the best talk she heard this year.
Maker Faire remains the Mecca for Bay Area DIY hobbyists and it was well worth the trip for me. I made some good connections after my talk and learned more about robots for our next classes. Onwards!
See more photos in my Maker Faire album:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/sets/72157633515937533
Here’s more info about my Maker Art talk:
makerfaire.com/maker/entry/60448/
Here are the slides I showed in the talk:
bit.ly/maker-art-talk-may-2017
Learn more about our Maker Art classes:
fabriceflorin.com//teaching-maker-art/
Learn more about Tam Makers:
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We do "Meet Your Makers" portraits from time to time in XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China xinchejian.com
“My parents divorced when I was seven. I remember my dad leaving but I didn’t understand why. We were in Mumbai at the time. He stayed while my mum and the rest of us moved back to the UK. It was hard adapting to not having him around. I’d visit him on major holidays but I began to see less and less of him. We lost touch. I was busy working over my summer breaks. We’d talk on the phone but it became one word conversations. I wasn’t doing anything of note. And I had no interest in what he was doing. I was brought up around the film industry. His dad was an actor, his brother’s a film producer and he’s a director. I just didn’t appreciate it.
I started a law degree. But after the first year I called my mum saying, ‘If I have to continue doing this I’m going to kill myself’. It wasn’t an idle threat; depression runs in our family. She pulled me out immediately. Not long after my mum and I were watching a movie together. I recognised a bad cut in one of the scenes. She rewound it, played it again and asked me to explain why. After a few times I got it. I must have picked it up from being around my dad. That’s when she bought me a plane ticket to India. She said, ‘You’re going to see your dad and become a filmmaker’. So I went to India for six months, worked as an apprentice. And while I was there I was able to reconnect with him as an adult and find my true calling as a film maker.”