Jack Hall from Brighton, England, couldn’t pick, strum, or draw a bow, but when it came to building stringed instruments, he had an amazing talent. You see, every inch of the instruments he built is made entirely with used matchsticks. Yes, dead matches.
Mark Frauenfelder www.colbertnation.com For those of you who missed Mark Frauenfelder’s appearance on The Colbert Report last night (or just don’t have a TV), the segment is now live online. Watch it above or on Colbert Nation.
Set your DVRs! MAKE’s amiable editor-in-chief, Mark Frauenfelder, will be on The Colbert Report tonight (June 8, 11:30pm, 10:30c), talking about his new book, Made by Hand, MAKE, and the “search for meaning in a throwaway world.” Break a leg, Mark!
From junk-genius Jud Turner.
Illustration by for Len Churchill for Homemade Caskets: You Can Make a Coffin, Mother Earth News When I was 20 years old, I helped my best friend die of cancer. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and also one of the most soul-satisfying. In the grand circuitry of life, there is […]
Cory Doctorow has announced a new card game based on the cool illustrations that accompanied the serialized version of his novel Makers. Last year, my novel Makers was published and syndicated free as a series of 81 blog-posts on Tor.com. Tor had the insanely creative people at Idiots’ Books produce 81 interlocking, tesselating illustrations, one […]
Here’s the video of Adam Savage’s wonderful talk at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010, captured by our friends at FORA.tv. Adam Savage Presents Problem Solving: How I Do It — Maker Faire More: Adam Savage, at Maker Faire, talking on the importance of failure
