Comments on: Shopping cart forest

By: screaminscott

screaminscott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’m finding myself increasingly frustrated with the amount of ‘performance art’ posted here as real maker projects.

I want to see stuff that DOES something and took some actually thought to MAKE. Sticking trees in shopping carts so people can push them around, while interesting artistically, is not what I look for in a Make Magazine blog.

Now, make these carts computerized and motorized so they automatically seek the sun… THAT would be a little bit better. Still really useless and arty, but better.

Find a way to take old shopping carts, recycle them into useful products that decrease the size of landfills while improving urban life on a permanant basis… THAT would be cool.

I’d rather see less posts that are of better quality, than more posts of performance art.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

‘Ware Makers (and Macbeth): it’s fun and games
Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.

By: RocketGuy

RocketGuy — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have to partially agree with screaminscott, I have a higher tolerance for art per se, but it does seem like the make blog is losing focus. Rather than have a lot of posts (some of which lately, I have to agree, are sorta marginal) I’d rather see less frequent posts that are more focused on actual maker type projects.

Creativity used to accomplish something besides “pretty” would be a good criteria to start with.

By: screaminscott

screaminscott — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Rocket guy said exactly what I wanted to say – “Creativity used to accomplish something besides pretty”