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Following a couple of days trackside to start my October trip to Kentucky, on Friday afternoon it was off to Loretto for the tour of the Makers Mark distillery. They've made quite a few additions since my last visit in 2010 (although sad to see they haven't put my name on a building yet even after all the product I've purchased over the years:)), and the tour is still very good and definitely worth a stop in when hitting up the Bourbon Trail. Fall colors were right about at their peak, so after the tour grabbed a few slides of the very picturesque grounds.
Afterwards headed over to Lexington for the Auburn-Kentucky game on Saturday, which AU won 24-10. Trains, bourbon, and Auburn football made for quite a nice 40th birthday trip!
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?
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
"Mackenzie & Moncur Ltd, Edinburgh,London & Glasgow." Three of the four columns retain their service doors while this one has lost its door. A wire can be seen inside. it would be nice to think that the four columns still retain a power supply and with new lanterns and a coat of paint, they could be brought back into use in no time at all.
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
Two versions of our soccer bot test platform
Hackerspace Shanghai: www.xinchejian.com
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Oberlin College students sold handmade wares at a summer semester Maker's Market in the Science Center bowl.
Photo by Mike Crupi
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: Lerebours et Secretan
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: catalog
Size: 6 1/8 in x 9 1/4 in
Location:
Object No. 2019.658c
Shelf: MAN-1853
Publication:
Other Collections:
Notes: Notes: The firm of Lerebours et Secretan was originally founded in the late 18th century by Noel-Jean Lerebours. Following his apprenticeship as an optician, Lerebours worked for several years as a contractor, supplying lenses to various Parisian optical businesses. As his fame grew, he opened his own shop at 69 Quai de l'Horloge in 1789. A few years later, he moved down the street to Pont Neuf. N.-J. Lerebours earned numerous prizes for his work. He was appointed Optician to the Emperor and, later, Optician to the King, knighted Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur, and as supplier to both the French Observatory and the Navy. Noel-Jean Lerebours married in 1786. There are no records of children. However, he took Noel Paymal (1807 - 1873) the son of an unmarried woman, under his wing. The connection between N.-J. Lerebours and Noel Paymal became more than simply employer-employee: in 1836, Noel Paymal added the surname “Lerebours”, and N.-J. Lerebours designated him as the sole heir. When N.J. Lerebours died in 1840, his adopted son continued the business. N.P. Lerebours became an early expert in photography, and also wrote popular books on that subject. He is best known today for his Excursions Daguerriennes, books of views of the world's monuments, based on early photographs redrawn by hand as Aquatint engravings. The Lerebours business also produced camera lenses of very high quality. In 1845, N.P. Lerebours formed a partnership with Marc Secrétan, a Swiss mathematician and optical scientist. Secrétan had recently moved to Paris to study astronomy. The partnership of Lerebours and Secrétan ended with Lerebours’ retirement at the end of 1854. By 1861, Secrétan hired his son, Auguste, to manage the business. Upon Marc Secrétan’s death in 1867, Auguste Secrétan inherited the business, now known as Maison de Secrétan (House of Secrétan). But Auguste did not live long, dying in 1874. A nephew of Marc Secrétan’s, Georges-Emmanuel Secrétan, was called upon by the family to continue the business. Soon after the death of Georges Secrétan, in 1906, the business passed out of the family. Variously called “Maison Lerebours et Secrétan” and “Secrétan”, it continued well into the twentieth century under different owners.
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The spray kicked up by storms during freezing weather on Lake Michigan does just that... it makes huge icicles on the outer light at St. Joe. Here, the icing is just starting on the catwalk and outer light.
Maker Faire Rome Campaign.
Backstage: Call for Makers -shooting.
Project team: Giorgio Olivero, Vincenza De Nigris, Alessandsro Argenio, Luca Zanconi.
We had a blast at the first meetup for Tam Makers, our new makerspace in Mill Valley. We hosted this free event at the wood shop at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley on June 8, 2016.
A diverse group of people came to the visit the shop, learn about our classes and discuss how to grow our maker community. Participants ranged from experienced artists, technologists, makers and woodworkers, to people interested in learning new skills, as well as high school and middle school students and their parents.
We opened the shop at 6pm and folks started to connect right away, checking out some of our demos, showing off recent projects and touring the space. At 7pm, we gave a presentation on Tam Makers, and talked about our first courses, meetups and tools for adults and youth. We then discussed these programs as a group and received some really helpful feedback.
Most people were very interested in participating in Tam Makers and using the makerspace regularly. They also liked the mix of classes, ranging from maker art to technology and woodworking. Some people signed up for classes on the spot and most wanted to join more meetups. Many offered to volunteer as well. One person said this event had a great community feeling, unlike more commercially motivated makerspaces.
We’re really happy that this first meetup went so well and that so many folks want to participate actively. We look forward to collaborating with our new maker friends very soon!
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We do "Meet Your Makers" portraits from time to time in XinCheJian, the first hackerspace in China xinchejian.com
Maker: Désiré Charnay 1828-1915
Born: France
Active: Mexico/Madagascar
Medium: albumen print
Size: 6 x 9 in
Location: Mexico
Object No. 2009.159
Shelf: B-54
Publication: Cités et ruines américaines, Gide et A. Morel, Paris 1862-3, Pl 16
Ruines du Mexique et Types Mexicans, 1862-63, pl 60
Le Mexique et ses Monumentes Anciens, Bondonneau, Paris, 1864
Keith F. Davis, Désiré Charnay Expeditionary Photographer, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1981, pl. 11
Other Collections: NYPL, LOC, GEM
Provenance: Bonham's & Butterfields, San Francisco, May 23, 2007, Lot 513
Rank: 2477
Notes: Between 1857 and 1860, Désiré Charnay traveled throughout Mexico photographing the architectural ruins of ancient sites at Mitla, Palenque, Izamal, Chichén-Itzá, and Uxmal. Funded by the French Ministry of Public Instruction, Charnay’s expedition was inspired by the archeologist John Lloyd Stephens’s book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, illustrated with engravings after daguerreotypes. Charnay captured the same sites using wet collodion glass negatives, and produced a visual record of the region that became the touchstone for subsequent archeologists and photographers working in Central American in the nineteenth century. When Charnay was in Mexico he met local Mexico City photographer Julio Michaud who made copies of Charnay's original prints and in 1860 published an album with 25 of the small prints called "Album Fotografico Mexicano". In 1862 Charnay published a portfolio of 42 albumen prints as Cités et ruines américaines, Mitla, Palenque, Izamal, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal.
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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/
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“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.”