Ars Technica has an awesome piece detailing 100 years worth of “Big Content’s” reaction to emerging media technologies (in its own words). Here’s John Philip Sousa, writing in Appleton’s Magazine, on “The Menace of Mechanical Music” (aka the gramophone): “From the days when the mathematical and mechanical were paramount in music, the struggle has been […]
The theme for my next Make: Online Toolbox column is “Maker Sartorial,” looking at clothing and accessories as tools for makers. In other words, what shirts, pants, shoes, belt pouches/holsters, pocket-contents, etc. do you carry, either when you’re at work, engaged in your hobbies, or otherwise doing makery type stuff, whether for work or pleasure. […]
This Thursday, Oct 15, Metrix Create: Space will open its doors in Seattle (at 623A Broadway East). It’s hackerspace meets an indie coffee house. They’ll have tools and equipment for building projects, 3D fabbing machines, classes on various types of high-tech makery, coffee and snacks. They even have a vending machine that’ll dispense Sun Chips, […]
I love discovering a blog like Paul Elkins’. He’s an obsessive designer and tinkerer who’s made all sorts of bikes, trikes, boats, trailers, tree houses, stoves out of mail boxes, and even mobile homes for birds (see above). He writes of his life-long passion for designing and building: I’ve been doing this idea hatching thing […]
“Self portrait in a state of fragmentation,” is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it’s “Untitled.” Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?
Anne Troake is a choreographer and filmmaker from Newfoundland. Her film Pretty Big Dig is, IMHO, the best of the many “dancing heavy machinery” videos I’ve seen on YouTube.
I really love this illustration (“Golem”) by Randis Albion (Andre Weiss) of brainy kids summoning a tectonic entity made of toys. It’s the details that make Albion’s work: The nervous look of the ravens outside the window, the fact that the wizard-child is in a wheelchair. His website is NSFW by some folks’ standards, I suppose, but well worth the click.
