Well, at the Maker Faire, they had people going around and filming all the "Makers" so they could upload their film on YouTube. Anyway, I was filmed at the end of the day and completely couldn't speak at that point.
Enjoy!
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Update: Maker Faire 2007 Austin. For those of you finding this site after visiting our booth at Maker Faire, feel free to leave comments or shoot me an email if you end up creating your own Lego Mosaic, I look forward to featuring your creation on here as soon as you email it to me at: legomosaic@gmail.com (yes for those of you who have my card, it's a different address, but will still get to me).
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Maker Faire Austin 2007
Here's some of the examples we brought with us to Maker Faire to show people the different techniques one could use to do Lego Mosaics. Notice the "Make:" in the back corner, yep, had to show my love for the magazine :)
The Gazelle!
Yesterday I mentioned someone had came by my booth who had made their own mosaic following the instructions on Instructables, well, she came by today and let me know she had emailed me a picture of her creation. I wanted to share with everyone out there this wonderful work of art.
Let me present to you, "The Gazelle" by Julia!
This is what's cool about Lego, using the same bricks, each person can make their own masterpiece based on whatever subject they want. Thank you Julia for taking the time to not only create a custom mosaic but to also share your effort with me. And see, she even took it a step further and framed it... hmmm... maybe I'll frame my next one!
As for everyone else, go on, create your masterpiece and share it with the world!!!
Chris
Let me present to you, "The Gazelle" by Julia!
This is what's cool about Lego, using the same bricks, each person can make their own masterpiece based on whatever subject they want. Thank you Julia for taking the time to not only create a custom mosaic but to also share your effort with me. And see, she even took it a step further and framed it... hmmm... maybe I'll frame my next one!
As for everyone else, go on, create your masterpiece and share it with the world!!!
Chris
Saturday, October 20, 2007
Yay I'm on the Make Blog again
Well, I'm not, but one of my lego creations are :)
Check out this page on "Maker Faire Photos" then scroll on down until you see the only lego picture on there :) (it happens to be the second to the last photo there...)
Hehe, very cool :)
Oh, on a related Make Magazine note, Bre Pettis, of the Make Weekend Podcast fame came by and gave me a "Maker Faire Blue Ribbon." It was super sweet :)
I tell you what, so far, this weekend has been great!
Check out this page on "Maker Faire Photos" then scroll on down until you see the only lego picture on there :) (it happens to be the second to the last photo there...)
Hehe, very cool :)
Oh, on a related Make Magazine note, Bre Pettis, of the Make Weekend Podcast fame came by and gave me a "Maker Faire Blue Ribbon." It was super sweet :)
I tell you what, so far, this weekend has been great!
Maker Faire Day 1....Wow!!!!
Wow, simply wow. Seriously, I can't express how fantastic, crazy, amazing, wow-ish, Maker Faire day 1 was. I am now horse, my voice has simply disappeared. We didn't know what to expect going into the Maker Faire, but if tomorrow is anything like today, man this would have been one crazy weekend.
Jess and I had put together 200 business card size information cards so people can go to instructables.com to learn how to make their own Lego mosaic, well, 3 hours into the Faire, we had given all 200 out, so, Jess drove home at lunchtime and printed off 200 more cards, well, by 4:30-5pm, we were out of those too! People just did not stop coming by! It was fantastic!
From 10am until 6pm, Jess and I were on our feet explaining what our booth was about and what was great, it was the whole gambit of demographics that came out! We had very young kids to those who were kids at heart. It was a blast, Unfortunately, I'm on such a rush, that it'll be hard for me to get the much needed sleep to do this again tomorrow!
Oh one of the highlights of the day, this fantastic young woman approached me and asked if I was the one who put up the instructable, I of course, said yes. Well, it turns out earlier she had found the instructable on her own and had made a Gazelle Lego Mosaic! I had a grin from ear to ear because my work on the Instructable had lead to someone else creating something they enjoyed, and she had a grin from ear to ear for meeting the person who made the Instructable she enjoyed. It was a win win/grin grin all around :)
The other highlight of the day was seeing my wife stand next to me getting just as into telling people about the booth as I was. It was nice to see both of us having a great day :)
Anyway, for those of you coming to this site for the first time, I hope to be featuring your mosaics on here soon!
Jess and I had put together 200 business card size information cards so people can go to instructables.com to learn how to make their own Lego mosaic, well, 3 hours into the Faire, we had given all 200 out, so, Jess drove home at lunchtime and printed off 200 more cards, well, by 4:30-5pm, we were out of those too! People just did not stop coming by! It was fantastic!
From 10am until 6pm, Jess and I were on our feet explaining what our booth was about and what was great, it was the whole gambit of demographics that came out! We had very young kids to those who were kids at heart. It was a blast, Unfortunately, I'm on such a rush, that it'll be hard for me to get the much needed sleep to do this again tomorrow!
Oh one of the highlights of the day, this fantastic young woman approached me and asked if I was the one who put up the instructable, I of course, said yes. Well, it turns out earlier she had found the instructable on her own and had made a Gazelle Lego Mosaic! I had a grin from ear to ear because my work on the Instructable had lead to someone else creating something they enjoyed, and she had a grin from ear to ear for meeting the person who made the Instructable she enjoyed. It was a win win/grin grin all around :)
The other highlight of the day was seeing my wife stand next to me getting just as into telling people about the booth as I was. It was nice to see both of us having a great day :)
Anyway, for those of you coming to this site for the first time, I hope to be featuring your mosaics on here soon!
Off to Maker Faire!
Well, we went to the Faire on Friday Night to see where we'll be setup, and they also threw a little celebration to kick off the event.
Although this one will be very different then the one in San Mateo, it will still be interesting. Jess and I have made custom Shirts for the event as well as a bunch of smaller mosaics to show off the style. We've also printed off various documents so people can see how easy (and hopefully fun) it can be to make their own mosaic.
Here's crossing our fingers we will be received well!
Chris
Although this one will be very different then the one in San Mateo, it will still be interesting. Jess and I have made custom Shirts for the event as well as a bunch of smaller mosaics to show off the style. We've also printed off various documents so people can see how easy (and hopefully fun) it can be to make their own mosaic.
Here's crossing our fingers we will be received well!
Chris
Monday, October 15, 2007
Maker Faire!
Well, we're only a few days away! So far, the last couple months have had us move house to Austin, Texas. My showing at this years Austin Maker Faire will be a little lighter then I had hoped but I'll still be out there providing all sorts of information, so come on out if you're in the area!
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