MakerCulture in the Making

Ryerson and Western Online Journalism students discover the Maker Culture 

Professor Larry Bencze

  
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I had the chance to chat with Professor Larry Bencze from the University of Toronto about his feelings on Maker Science. Here's some of what he had to say!

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Team Science

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Issues/What's next finals

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Candid Photos of My Ryerson Students

As a companion to my shots of my Western crew, here are some pics I took today of Team Ryerson. - Wayne

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A straw bale sighting

Ever had a weekend or two with no plans? Well if you had some spare straw hanging around, you could construct a straw bale building! Through just two weekend hands-on workshops, participants made this shed at the Toronto Botanical Garden.

The straw bales were locally harvested and other materials used were recycled products. Here's a sneak peek:

--Team Culture

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Galaxy Zoo Tutorial

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We took a field trip to Maria's house where she gave us the quick and dirty run down of Galaxy Zoo - the website that lets you classify galaxies!

-Team Science


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Latte Art: Final Round

This was the final round at our Medium:Coffee, latte art for non-latte artists event. Artists Stefan Berg and Abra Dolman go head-to-head to win the first prize, a $50 gift card to the Grinder. Who won? Stay tuned...


Camera: Sara Faruqi

 

--Arti Patel, Vince McDermott

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University of Toronto student and artist Eden Biggin plays with her food

Toronto based student and artist Eden Biggin likes to be creative with food.

In her first piece "Alphagetti" the artist uses store-bought alphagetti. Biggin believes the piece was more of a personal expressiveness where she was able to play with colours.
"Food is cheap but it can mimic so many textures," she said.

In her second piece, titled "Yellow Circle," Biggin uses yellow face paint, oatmeal, shaving cream, corn meal, yellow food colouring, a sponge and hair gel. For Biggin, there is really no particular inspiration that is behind all her pieces, but rather the idea of a "sudden and spontaneous" spirit. She likes to capture the bizarre, the absurd and using food as been able to add to that affect.

In relation to makerculture, Biggin believes that all artists are makers and it doesn't matter which material they use. "In art you are a maker, whether you use food or metal," she said.

Biggin is the model of both of these pieces and reflects her work as self-portraits.

---Arti Patel


Photos courtesy of Eden Biggin

   
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The Heidelberg Project.

As far as art goes, it doesn't get any more Maker than the Heidelberg Project. We visited this wild work of public art as part of our rust belt tour. Matt cut together this monatage of our visit for your viewing pleasure. The music is a mashup I created by taking a podsafe track by Maniax Memori and cutting in the voice of Charles Williams, a Heidelberg resident we interviewed.
I also made a virtue of necessity by utilizing the sound of a crow that kept squawking all over our audio. Listen for it!

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Skype interview with Cathy Wu, creator of "The Dried Fruit Project"


This is a clip from my interview with Cathy Wu, who creates jewelry out of dried fruit such as apples, pears, plum, etc.
She talks about how she came up with the idea and explains her project in a bit more detail. 
 

 

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History Group Talks to Chocolate Maker

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Another interviewfrom St.Jacobs, this time with a Chocolate Maker!
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