MakerCulture in the Making

-- 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.

We will continue to post videos and audio.

                   

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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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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.

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

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

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