What follows is our official exit interview with Amanda Sari Perez, who just recently left Ann Arbor for Pittsburgh. MARK: OK, let’s start at the beginning. What’s your name, where were you born, and what kind of kid were you? AMANDA: All right then. My name is Amanda. Or Salamanda. Or YakYak. Or AmandaPanda. I […]
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Ypsi/Arbor Exit Interview: Amanda Sari Perez
Posted in A2Awesome, Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged Amanda Sari Perez, amputation, Bilal Ghalib, biomedical engineering, Breaking Protocol, Burning Man, Care Bears, China, DIY, Float Fest, Fool Moon, geodesic dome, Hong Kong, Houston, Indonesia, insects, kayaks, Kentucky, Lakes of Fire, Maker Works, makers, Monticello, paralysis, Pittsburgh, rehabilitation, shopping cart races, Syncytium, Texas, Trudi Cooper, yaks 5 Comments
Awesome Things You Should Know About: The Ann Arbor District Library has theremins, guitar pedals, synthesizers, solar chargers, telescopes and all kinds of other cools things available for checkout
A few days ago I found myself wandering around the main branch of the Ann Arbor District Library (AADL). As I’m on the Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads 2015 selection committee, I’d been asked to come in and pick up copies of the two books we’d be choisng between, and, as I hadn’t been in the […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Uncategorized Also tagged 3D printers, Ann Arbor District Library. AADL, Ann Arbor Ypsilanti Reads, art, art prints, awesome things you should know about, cake pan libraries, comparing Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Finch Robots, GoPro, guitar pedals, Jody Harnish, librarians, library collections, local bands, Maker Works, music, music tools, PAs, public libraries, realia, robots, Sabertooth Cat skull, synthesizers, telescope, the changing role of libraries, thermal imaging cameras, U-M 3D Lab, University Lowbrow Astronomers, Unusual Stuff to Borrow 20 Comments
Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money
Today, the trustees of A2Awesome handed over $1,000 to Amanda Sari Perez for the creation of an enormous geodesic dome, which she hopes will serve as a platform on which others in the community can express their creativity. Following is my interview with her. MARK: To start out, could you tell us a bit about […]
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation Also tagged A2Awesome, A2MechShop, Alice Liberson, Amanda Sari Perez, brain implants, Buckminster Fuller, Burning Man, creativity, Dick Soble, DIY, Dome Sweet Dome, Figment, geodesic dome, grants, hacking, Heather MacKenzie, inh Song, interview, Lakes of Fire, Lisa Dengiz, Maker Faire, Maker Works, making stuff, micro-philanthropy, Paul Saginaw, public art, Syncytium 6 Comments