For all the bookworms out there, this is your event! NYC Resistor is hosting a “super-mega DIY Book Arts workshop” this Saturday, Oct. 8. What will you learn? Book binding techniques Paper engineering mechanisms An introduction to printing with the Intaglio press For one afternoon, it sounds like you’ll learn quite a bit! You can […]
Are you a hackerspace member with an event you’d like to publicize? Send it to johnb@makezine.com or tweet me at @johnbaichtal and I’ll post it. Also feel free to subscribe to my hackerspaces Twitter list. Hackerspace Happenings runs weekly(ish) Tuesday(i)s(h). Hackerspaces in Space: A Kickstarter Project Let’s inspire the world and young future scientists with […]
Click to add an event to the online calendar Email me if you have a call for vendors. Coming Up This Weekend: Urban Folk Show Hillsboro, OR Oct. 7-9 Indie Mart San Francisco, CA Oct. 9 Liberty Local Handmade Craft Fair Ann Arbor, MI Oct. 8-9 Ballston Arts & Crafts Market Arlington, VA Oct. 8 […]
Bill Secunda’s sculpture “Mantis Dreaming” was inspired by The Verve’s song “Catching The Butterfly.” Of it, he writes: “I imagined a praying mantis might have that dream, his opposite, the butterfly, beautiful, delicate, and always out of reach. He is so infatuated with it, when the butterfly lands on him he stands frozen. His instincts clash with his fascination, all he can do is hope it doesn’t fly away.”
On Saturday night I went to Crash Space, hacker space in Los Angeles to meet with the members and find out about the projects they’ve been working on. The event was called “Show and Tell for MAKE,” and the idea was to work together to develop articles for the magazine and online, and think about kits for the Maker Shed.
Remember this “lost dog” clip from Sesame Street, where the brother and sister visit the letterpress printer to run off a bunch of “lost dog” flyers? Sesame Street finds the magic! Well, if you have an appreciation for letterpress printing and you’re in the L.A. area this Saturday, you might consider stopping by the Los […]
Failing is the new winning. We’re not talking about not trying and failing, but rather having an idea, making it happen, and then having it not turn out as envisioned. This type of failure presents particularly ripe opportunity for learning, growing, and improving. There is not a maker in history who has not had their […]
