Tie-Dyed Brain Rays

Maker Faire Austin Video

A sampling of the wondrous creations at Austin's Maker Faire with interviews of Mark Frauenfelder, Mitch Altman, Bre Pettis and John P. Funk.

I interviewed some of the other makers too, but either the sound was too bad to use (I was recording with the camera's on-board mic and it picked up all the ambient noise.) or I had to cut them for time. Keeping the video within YouTube's 10 minute constraint was a challenge. I would have like the music montage at the end to be longer, for example.

See The Light

Tie-dyed Tehuti trips the light fantastic in Mitch Altman's Brain Machine. "It's full of stars!"

I'm still editing the video from our recent foray to the Austin Maker's Faire. We had a great time and met lots of interesting makers. I caught interviews with folks such as Mark Frauenfelder, Bre Pettis, Mitch Altman and John P. Funk. I'll have the highlights posted soon. In the meantime enjoy my recent radio interview with Mitch Altman.

Download My Interview with Brain Machine inventor Mitch Altman

I blogged Mitch's brain machine along with other mind-altering technology on Vox.

Brain Hacking Part 1

Brain Hacking Part 2

And in case you missed it, here's my interview with Make Magazine editor in chief Mark Frauenfelder.

Meet Your Maker

The device on my forehead is a lucid dreaming mask from the pages of Make Magazine. I blogged about it on VOX.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing founder, editor in chief for Make Magazine, author, journalist, and illustrator. I hate to get all fan-boy, but Mark has his hand in so many of my favorite things that I couldn't wait to talk to him. The conversation we had ranks right up there with other interviews I've done with some of my favorite geek-heroes like Apollo XI astronaut Buzz Aldrin, original rocketbelt pilot Hal Graham, and Ky Michaelson, the inventor of the rocket powered toilet*.

You can hear the entire interview here.

One thing Mark didn't mention was the new feature Boing Boing just rolled out, Boing Boing TV. I love the feature and I hope they open it up for user contributions, because I have a couple of things that might mesh well with the style and format.