Apr. 23rd, 2006 09:17 am
maker faire
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toastykittenMaker Faire was awesome. It was really more of a Nerd Faire, with plenty of people making stuff and selling the things they made. We met the guy who built his own backyard monorail, talked with members of the Bay Area LEGO Users Group aka BayLUG, got a free ReadyMade magazine and a tote bag for the faire, and watched some people who should have been at RenFaire fight and helped Diana Eng and her partner Emily Albinski hand out programs for their fashion show debut (thanks to Blogging Project Runway. I think they should have made more, but who knew how popular the Maker Faire would be? I wish I had brought my camera, but oh well.
There was another fashion show before Black Box Nation, called A Recycled Fashion Show, featuring clothes that had been altered, remade, reused in true DIY fashion. It was very cool, and my favorite part was when one of the designers transformed a boring office outfit onstage with just scissors into something really cute and fashionable.
Edited to flesh this part out:
So Diana is exactly like the way she was on Project Runway - very sweet, soft-spoken, nerdy, sort of spacey, and actually shorter than me. Emily is much the same way, and quite possibly nerdier. Of course I kept a program from Black Box Nation!
The Lineup - the first up were the "biomimetic clothing" - which meant that the clothes themselves could transform into different silhouettes and shapes. One model pulled a shawl out of her purse, another transformed her shirt into a different, cuter shirt by moving a few folds, and the last reversed her black skirt and pinned it up to reveal a bold print underneath.
Next up were the functional jewelry - unfortunately I don't remember what they were, and it was hard to get a good look from where I was. (I need new glasses.)
I'd seen the mathematical knits before - these knits were based on number patterns. The other dress featured a ruffle running down the dress based on the Fibonacci sequence.
Then there was the PCB Radio, which was a bunch of jewelry, when properly adjusted, would turn your head into a radio. Okay, not literally. The necklace became a piece that attached to something else to become an antenna, and these really cute earrings were actually speakers, which you could flip up to become headphones. This Flickr photo explains it better.
There was the heartbeat hoodie, which she used to enter Project Runway. It looked much better now that you could see it close up.
Next up was the mobius strip bag, which unzipped to turn into a bag with a longer handle. (I was kind of hoping that it would actually turn into a bigger bag.)
The next models wore Emily Albinski's jewelry designed from electronic fuses.
Their show featured the famous inflatable dress, which was hacked from a hand vacuum.
It was a lot of fun, and I hope to see more stuff soon!
There was another fashion show before Black Box Nation, called A Recycled Fashion Show, featuring clothes that had been altered, remade, reused in true DIY fashion. It was very cool, and my favorite part was when one of the designers transformed a boring office outfit onstage with just scissors into something really cute and fashionable.
Edited to flesh this part out:
So Diana is exactly like the way she was on Project Runway - very sweet, soft-spoken, nerdy, sort of spacey, and actually shorter than me. Emily is much the same way, and quite possibly nerdier. Of course I kept a program from Black Box Nation!
The Lineup - the first up were the "biomimetic clothing" - which meant that the clothes themselves could transform into different silhouettes and shapes. One model pulled a shawl out of her purse, another transformed her shirt into a different, cuter shirt by moving a few folds, and the last reversed her black skirt and pinned it up to reveal a bold print underneath.
Next up were the functional jewelry - unfortunately I don't remember what they were, and it was hard to get a good look from where I was. (I need new glasses.)
I'd seen the mathematical knits before - these knits were based on number patterns. The other dress featured a ruffle running down the dress based on the Fibonacci sequence.
Then there was the PCB Radio, which was a bunch of jewelry, when properly adjusted, would turn your head into a radio. Okay, not literally. The necklace became a piece that attached to something else to become an antenna, and these really cute earrings were actually speakers, which you could flip up to become headphones. This Flickr photo explains it better.
There was the heartbeat hoodie, which she used to enter Project Runway. It looked much better now that you could see it close up.
Next up was the mobius strip bag, which unzipped to turn into a bag with a longer handle. (I was kind of hoping that it would actually turn into a bigger bag.)
The next models wore Emily Albinski's jewelry designed from electronic fuses.
Their show featured the famous inflatable dress, which was hacked from a hand vacuum.
It was a lot of fun, and I hope to see more stuff soon!
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