Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day for celebrating women in technology: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace was born on 10th December 1815, the only child of Lord Byron and his wife, Annabella. Born Augusta Ada Byron, but now known simply as Ada Lovelace, she wrote the world’s first computer programmes for the Analytical […]
Hi Crafters! Urban Craft Uprising’s first ever Summer show is happening in Seattle, WA on August 1st & 2nd 2009. Over 100 indie crafters will be selling their work at the Seattle Center in downtown Seattle… and you could be one of them! For more information on becoming a vendor check out the vendor information […]
For those of you in the Portland, OR area, don’t miss Susan Beal’s Button It Up Book Events. The first one is tonight at Powell’s Books (1005 W. Burnside St., in downtown Portland) at 7:30, upstairs in the Pearl Room. Then next week on Saturday, March 28 at 4:00pm, Susan will be at Bolt Fabric […]
Via BoingBoing, check out Brian Dettmer’s awesome sculptures! David Pescovitz writes: Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago’s Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work.
Many Noise Toys were born at last night’s Handmade Music event. Kit creators Loud Objects were on hand assisting with assembly and soldering basics for those new to the sport. Bret Truchan, creator of GlitchDS (and its forthcoming desktop iteration), demonstrated his cellular automata based software and Eric Beug explained the inner workings of his […]
Austin has been going nuts this week with all kinds of great events related to SXSW. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s Day Party for Craftster and Standard Recording. They’ll be demonstrating the Yudu personal screen printer, and will have craft projects, food, drinks and live music throughout the day. Jenny Hart from Sublime Stitching […]
Attention makers in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph, New Hamburg, Baden, Elmira, Ayr and anywhere in between: MAKE twitter follower Michael wants to know if you’re in the area an interested in starting up a hacker space: I’m not only envisioning a shared space where geeks and artists alike would be able to work on their […]
