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 […]
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Amanda Sari Perez on winning this month’s A2Awesome grant, and the geodesic dome she’s built with the money
Posted in Ann Arbor, Art and Culture, Awesome Foundation Also tagged A2Awesome, A2MechShop, Alice Liberson, All Hands Active, 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 Works, making stuff, micro-philanthropy, Paul Saginaw, public art, Syncytium 6 Comments
Detroit 2011 Maker Faire
I spent a good part of the day today stumbling around in the heat at the Detroit Maker Faire. Among other things, I did the following… I got to see an incredibly cool demonstration of a turn-of-the-century steam-powered threshing machine put on by the employees of Greenfield Village. I visited the HackPittsburgh yurt, and, while […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, entrepreneurism, Other, Uncategorized Also tagged Amelia marks, Backyard Brains, brain activity, chaff, Cheez Whiz, cockroaches, Electrophysiology, farming, Greenfield Village, high altitude balloons, invention, neurons, Professor Frink, Ruth Marks, Science, SpikerBox, the brain, The Simpsons, thrashing, wheat 10 Comments