The Buckminster Fuller Institute has an annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a $100,000 prize for “comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.” The 2008 prize was awarded in June, in NYC. Check out their Challenge webpage for a list of submissions and winners. The 2009 Challenge will begin this fall. Welcome to the […]
Join us in San Francisco this Saturday, August 9th from Noon to 5pm for our CRAFT: 08 Release Party! We’ll be at The Curiosity Shoppe (855 Valencia Street) celebrating CRAFT:08’s Weaving issue along with our cover crafter, Travis Meinolf. Travis, a weaver who’s profiled in CRAFT: 08, will be demonstrating how to weave throughout the […]
The final day of 5 in 5 was happy-dirty, telepathic, deliciously chilly, retro-reflective, recursively meta, southwardly mobile, ephemerally illustrated, dubiously conversant, cartographically challenging, mixed, mashed and lovingly recycled. Andrew Schneider was our final Guest Star and meta-chronicled the waning day of five. As promised, the fivers headed to Odessa where their personal bartender concocted the […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Ranjit’s workshop seems to have gone very well – some great sounds can be heard from these resulting instruments. Time for a handmade jam! From the pages of MAKE: MAKE:09 p.115 Strung Out – make a one-string electric guitar
Day 4’s 5 in 5ers drew like text, cooked like robots, threw and chirped, mapped and walked, made peace with sandwiches, strolled with Dada, arrowed electroluminescently, surfaced tubularly, put out 2 sea and put up with Zombies. We were proud to have Make Blogger and ITP alumni Jonah Brucker-Cohen as the Day 4 Guest Star. […]
Nice write up of last week’s Ignite NYC… “Night Life Reprogrammed – NYTimes.com”– THE rowd pressed forward on Tuesday night to watch the soldering contest as it entered its final stages. A dozen men, gripping hot irons, sweated over circuit boards at M1-5, a TriBeCa bar. Their goal: win a race to assemble a primitive […]
The middle day of 5 in 5 rebranded Bed-Stuy, counted clicks, twittered literature, resistored a dress, gamed a subwoofer, hacked Peggy into Lite-Brite, mapped our past, threw light sculptures, sampled soft circuits, waisted a skirt of waste, retold one story of a man named Brady and another from Beverly Cleary (a lovely lady). Guest Starring […]
