MakerCulture in the Making

Ryerson and Western Online Journalism students discover the Maker Culture 

Here are some of the highlights from the Medium: Coffee event hosted by the food episode

-- Arti Patel

Here are a few pictures from our event on Friday night. We were thrilled to have five participating artist and four judges.
We were also thrilled to have many audience members who had taken time out to watch our event. Thanks for coming out. We also streamed the event live on livestream, but the connection (we believe was the actual website) did not stay live most of the time. We did have viewers watching when we did have a stream, but we were upset we could not capture all of the event.
The artists were given chances in three rounds, the first was the attempt, the second was to fix up what they had just learned from the first round, the last round was a "freestyle" round, where artist used chocolate syrup, cinnamon, cocoa, spoons and other available materials.
At the end we had our two finalist, Stefan and Abra, go head-to-head at the same time, to create one final piece.
Stefan was declared the winner.

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MakerCulture- A return to authenticity

  
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Andrew Schwab is excited that maker culture can allow manufacturing to become localized.  I talked to him at Cory Doctorow's book launch in Toronto last week.

~Savithri

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Mash-up DJs are important for musicians

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DJ Earworm is a mash-up artist from San Fransisco. He talks to me about why mash-ups benefit musicians. He feels mixing songs is important for both maker and artist.

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A future pro-piracy lawyer

Kritika Ganapathy is a high school student in Toronto who spoke to me at Cory Doctorow's book launch in Toronto.  She tried her hand at Python programming after reading Cory's last book, Little Brother. 

~Savithri

  
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Prometheus

This is by far one of the strangest things I've come across during this project...


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History logo final drafts

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Media in the making...

It's been a crazy week for the media group but we can finally cross a couple of videos off our to-do list. The first one is our coverage of London's 1st Annual Best Lil' Zine Fair, which was held at Forest City Gallery last Saturday. The second is an interview with Dave O'Halloran, the creator of What Wave (a punk rock/garage music zine). He's been a zinester since 1984, but a huge fan of indie media all his life. Enjoy!

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Candid Shots of the Western Students of the MakerCulture Project

Had a chance today to take some candids of my Western students working on their videos and podcasts for the project.

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Velcrow Ripper Interview

Media episode - This is a clip from an interview I did with Velcrow Ripper on October 19. I had a chance to speak with him before the screening of his non-fiction feature film, Fierce Light, at London's Hyland Theatre. During the making of Fierce Light, Ripper spoke with activists, environmentalists, and politicians about spiritual activism and how people are rallying together to create peaceful change in their communities.

-Laura

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Fabricators final logo draft

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