Makers

Mister Jalopy on building “better”

MAKE Contributing Editor, blogger, and DIY iconoclast Mister Jalopy is featured in a New York Times editorial on the Maker movement. Mister Jalopy’s latest mission is taking the Maker mentality to manufacturers, urging them to make products that consumers can easily maintain, repair, repurpose or even reinvent. … Lately, he has refined his thinking into […]

Mark Applebaum’s musical sculptures

Mark Applebaum is a musician (and professor at Stanford) who makes incredibly complex sound sculptures from found objects. (Via DeepFun) The instruments consist of threaded rods, nails, wire strings stretched through a series of pulleys and turnbuckles, plastic combs, bronze braising rod blow-torched and twisted, doorstops, shoehorns, ratchets, steel wheels, springs, lead and PVC pipe, […]

Anachrotechnofetishism art show

Anachrotechnofetishism art show

Anachrotechnofetishism artifacts by pioneers of american steampunk September 12th thru October 3rd Opening reception September, 12th, 6:00PM – 10:00PM Featuring Datamancer, David S. Dowling, Eliza Gauger, Jake von Slatt, Libby Bulloff, Magpie Killjoy, missmonster, Molly “Porkshanks” Friedrich, Molly Mitchell, Quentin Ziplash, Rachel “Ratchet” Olson, Steven Archer, Suzanne Rachel Forbes This upcoming Seattle art show includes […]