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A sign at the Maker Faire in San Mateo, May 2009. Rocket launchers and robotic warships on the same sign. What's not to like?
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My new, red, coffee maker was sent to me by my mother because the one I had liked to pee all over the counter. Therefore, no more mess. Not having to clean up the mess in the morning will save me some valuable time. The coffee maker takes up a bit more space and everything displayed on the kitchen counter did not seem right, so I moved my Pyrex collection down, and the saguaro plate moved too.
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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This guy knew how to pose on this sucker. Got his hands up right where the wings extend outward. Love those shades.
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!
Side view of my homemade plank bender. It's set up for a 'lefty': in use it's clamped to the left edge of the workbench and planks are fed through from right to left. I don't moisten or steam the planks but doing each plank repeatedly, tightening the bend each pass, works well.
The Weather Makers is the first solo exhibition in Scotland by Canadian artist Kelly Richardson and is programmed as part of Dundee Contemporary Arts’ Discovery Film Festival. Richardson creates hyper-real digital films of rich and complex landscapes that have been manipulated using CGI, animation and sound. Weaving together myth and metaphor with scientific research and new digital technologies, The Weather Makers will present three large-scale video works alongside a new print series.
The exhibition asks the viewer to consider what the future might look like if we continue on our current trajectory of planetary pillaging and consumption, and why we have allowed ourselves to arrive at such a moment of global environmental crisis.
Mariner 9 (2012), Kelly Richardson
A 12-metre-long panoramic view of a Martian landscape set hundreds of years in the future, Mariner 9 (2012) presented in this partnership between Dundee Contemporary Arts and NEoN Digital Arts Festival, evokes the human search for life beyond our own planet that continues even as we damage or destroy entire ecosystems on Earth. This vast video work was created using scenery-generation software employed by the film and gaming industries in combination with technical data from NASA’s missions to Mars to produce a faithful artist’s rendering of Martian terrain, populated by the debris from centuries of exploration.
In Orion Tide (2013-14), Richardson presents a desert punctuated by spurts of light and smoke repeatedly launching into the dark night sky. The viewer is left to question what these rocket-like movements are; why they have been launched; and who or what they are carrying. They could be departing explorers searching for a new world or perhaps the escape of a group of planetary refugees, a mass exodus of humanity.
In Leviathan (2011), a 20-minute loop of footage shot on Caddo Lake in Uncertain, Texas displays the region’s unique bald cypress trees in their swamp environment. Filmed from a single vantage point, like a painting set in motion, Richardson has digitally enhanced the nearly monochromatic setting with strange yellow tendrils of light, undulating and twisting beneath the water, hinting at an undiscovered or mutated bioluminant life-form, or perhaps the aftermath of something altogether more disturbing.
Accompanying the exhibition’s large-scale video works will be Richardson’s latest series of chromogenic prints, Pillars of Dawn, which present images of an imaginary desert in which trees and terrain have been physically crystallised by changes in the environment.
As part of NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Kelly has also been invited to curate an exhibition of digital art making reference to both her own immersive landscape work and the festival theme of Media Archaeology. That exhibition will run in Centrespace in the Visual Research Centre on the lower ground floor of DCA, open from Sat 11 November – Sun 19 November 2017.
Richardson currently lives and works on Vancouver Island where she is Associate Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Her work is held in many major international collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, SMoCA and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Arts Council Collection England and Towner, Eastbourne.
Her work has been selected for the Beijing, Busan, Canadian, Gwangiu and Montreal biennales, and recent solo exhibitions include SMoCA, CAG Vancouver, VOID Derry, Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, and a major survey at the Albright-Knox.
Supported by the High Commission of Canada to the United Kingdom
SCAN Tour
Images: Kathryn Rattray Photography
Video still from MAKER: makerthemovie.com
Screened at MAKE Ventura 4/30/15
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My buddy John Parks of www.makezine.tv/ and all round Gourmet Foodie, Barista and Mixologist.
Taking time out to hack a nurf type gun to fire when approached.
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Maker Boulder
We are growing this community, first, in support of the brand-spanking new Boulder Mini Maker Faire, coming to the Boulder Fairgrounds January 31 and Feb 1, 2015. Then we hope to continue this community beyond the boundaries of the event!
Our mission is connecting Makers, Entrepreneurs and Educators. Together with the Colorado community, we’ll create a symphony of STEAM activity that involves lots of hands-on learning, gears grinding, hackers iterating and tinkerers talking — and we make it all possible in three important ways:
1. Presenting small and large events that increase access to hands-on STEAM learning
2. Creating content and training for teachers to help them incorporate Making and projects into their classrooms
3. Driving dialog around STEAM and Making through website content, blogging, social media, speaking and other methods
Join us! Sign up for our newsletter, or volunteer to teach a class. Buy tickets to our events. Write our blogs, or just follow us and like us! The stone is rolling, and we want all the moss we can collect!
For more information, browse this site, or email us at: info@MakerBoulder.com
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