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Paper Plate Mandala

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 22:59:09 +0000

As a young sculptor fresh from art school, Wendy Brackman struggled with the problem of "selling out." In the video, above, she talks about her decision to become a party entertainer. Her act involves spontaneous sculpture of weird party hats cut by hand, from paper plates, using scissors, and joined together with staples. That was it. In need of a broader color palette, she began painting the plates with acrylic house paint before cutting them up, and as her act developed and began to take off, eventually graduated to custom-printed and die-cut cardstock blanks, instead of plates. Eventually...

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Tiny House Summer Camp

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 23:30:45 +0000

20 DIY'ers from around the United States gathered at Derek Diedricksen's off-the-grid camp in Vermon't's North East Kingdom for a weekend workshop on tiny house building.

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New TechShop Coming to Chandler, AZ

Thu, 02 Aug 2012 22:30:23 +0000

TechShop to partner with Arizona university. New TechShops coming to three East Coast cities.

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Slot-Together Crib Made of ApplePly

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 01:30:12 +0000

This slot-together mini-crib made was made with MDF forms cut on a CNC milling machine. The forms were than used with a hand-held router to cut sturdy ApplePly plywood. Only four stainless steel pins were used in the assembly.

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New Project Site for Young Makers

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:30:32 +0000

With a URL to die for, the recently-launched diy.org attracted some 3,000 kids in its first week and a half online, including youngsters from Asia, Europe, and South America. Using their parent’s email address to register, any kid can upload digital photos of their handiwork to the site and share the URL of their page with whomever they like.

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Young Maker Nabs Thiel Fellowship

Wed, 16 May 2012 19:30:41 +0000

When I visited the Open Source Ecology farm in Missouri earlier this year, I met an impressive young Canadian named Yoonseo Kang. I wasn’t quite expecting to meet an 18-year-old who would tell me that “the heart of economic democracy is decentralized productive power spread throughout the populace.” Kang had […]

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A Peek Inside Etsy HQ

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:00:59 +0000

Jon Kalish gives us a brief tour of the handcrafted offices of Etsy's Brooklyn HQ.

MAKE Visits the Open Source Ecology Project

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 22:31:41 +0000

Our special contributor, Jon Kalish, drives into Missouri’s corn and soybean country in search of the Open Source Ecology project.

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The Making of a Truck Anti-Rollaway Device

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:31:13 +0000

Now a mechanic with just a year of community college under his belt has unveiled a system to prevent rollaways. 44 year-old Tom Accardi managed to create the system and bring it to market without the help of venture capitalists or companies that prey on aspiring inventors.

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High School Farmers in LA

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 21:30:15 +0000

Plans are under way to start the first of five farms at Los Angeles high schools. Filmmaker Mark MacInnis, whose feature length documentary Urban Roots chronicles the thriving urban agricultural scene in Detroit, is spearheading the project. MacInnis says the first school farm will be located at James A. Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.

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