The automata of Tom Haney
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to the amazing automata and kinetic sculptures of Tom Haney (Atlanta, GA).
Makers
Make: Austin Weird
Dale Dougherty writes: Mike Weiblen showed up to the Maker Faire Austin Town Hall on Sunday night with his own handmade T-shirt mashup, Make Austin Weird. Mike and about thirty other makers got together to meet with the Maker Faire team and discuss their own plans for the event scheduled for October 18-19 at the […]
Singing with the fishes
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is an art car project by Richard Carter, John Schroeter (Houston, TX), and some thirty volunteers. The car incorporates 250 singing Billy Bass animatronic fish and 250 mechanical lobsters, including a conductor that’s perched on a boom over the hood of the 1984 Volvo sedan the choir calls home. After the […]
Chicago-area Makers Get Together, Thursday July 17, at Flapjaws
Dale Dougherty and Sherry Huss of MAKE/CRAFT and Maker Faire will be in Chicago this week. If you’re a Chicago-area maker, drop by Flapjaws Cafe on Thursday, July 17 at 7pm or so. Thanks to Brian Fitzpatrick of Google in Chicago who helped us organize this meeting. Come by and join us for a beer. […]
Mister Jalopy on NPR
(NPR photo by Jolie Myers) MAKE Contributing Editor Mister Jalopy (Los Angeles, CA) was profiled on NPR’s Day to Day. Mr. Jalopy describes himself as a mediocre welder, a fair mechanic and a clumsy designer — not the type of fellow one would expect to create what he playfully calls the “biggest iPod in the […]
Prison makers
This photo gallery by Marc Steinmetz really illustrates the essence of making what you “need” from what you have at hand; the objects are rough, but incredibly elegant solutions to problems that most of us will never have to solve.
Fantastic Contraption show and book
Device is a new art gallery in La Jolla, California created by sculptor Greg Brotherton and his wife Amy. Their next show, Fantastic Contraption, opens July 19 (and runs through Sept. 2). The 18-artist show explores the leaky margins between humans and their machinery and includes some of my favorites: Stephane Halleux, Nemo Gould, Theo […]
