Make me a Faire dammit.
So I begged to please forgo the gawd-awful Mother's Day Buffet and pleaded to be taken here instead. "Burning Man but without the nudity, drugs, drama, heat and dust" says the brochure.
Here's the schedule from the main stage-
Things I Learned from Knitting • String Theory • Five Dangerous Things Your Kids Should Do • Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote • MacGyver: The Making of a Cultural Icon • Howtoons • What Happened to the Chemistry Set? • Contraptor Lounge • Maker Magic • The Maltese Falcon • Babbage's Difference Engine • SETI@home • Backyard Astronomy with Binoculars • The Paper Airplane Guy • 21st Century Woodworking Tools • Kite Aerial Photography • Extreme Craft • The Ultimate Challenge for Makers • Creating Disney-themed Parks Designs • iPhone Hacking Lab • Authentic Innovation • Propane, It's a Gas! Fun and Fire with the Flaming Lotus Girls • Laser Harp • Judy: My Dinner with Android • Art Lessing and the Flower Vato • The Image of Computers in Popular Music
Also- We're thrilled to have the well-known steampunk band Abney Park as part of the Saturday Night Steampunk Spectacular, a new evening program at this year's Maker Faire. If you're not familiar with the band, check out their website and media found there. Abney Park is not only a great band, they're also makers, with some of the instruments hand-built or modded. We hear rumors that a newly modded instrument may make an appearance at the show. Also on the bill will be the hard-rockin' Irish triad Culann's Hound... and PowerTool drag racing under the lights! The inimitable Hieronymus Isambard "Jake" Von Slatt of the Steampunk Workshop will be Master of Ceremonies. The evening's festivities and the Steampunk Spectaular will begin as the Expo and other halls close, after 6pm. See you on the dancefloor!
Am SOO excited.
Will report back with pics.
Here's the schedule from the main stage-
Things I Learned from Knitting • String Theory • Five Dangerous Things Your Kids Should Do • Interaction Techniques Using the Wii Remote • MacGyver: The Making of a Cultural Icon • Howtoons • What Happened to the Chemistry Set? • Contraptor Lounge • Maker Magic • The Maltese Falcon • Babbage's Difference Engine • SETI@home • Backyard Astronomy with Binoculars • The Paper Airplane Guy • 21st Century Woodworking Tools • Kite Aerial Photography • Extreme Craft • The Ultimate Challenge for Makers • Creating Disney-themed Parks Designs • iPhone Hacking Lab • Authentic Innovation • Propane, It's a Gas! Fun and Fire with the Flaming Lotus Girls • Laser Harp • Judy: My Dinner with Android • Art Lessing and the Flower Vato • The Image of Computers in Popular Music
Also- We're thrilled to have the well-known steampunk band Abney Park as part of the Saturday Night Steampunk Spectacular, a new evening program at this year's Maker Faire. If you're not familiar with the band, check out their website and media found there. Abney Park is not only a great band, they're also makers, with some of the instruments hand-built or modded. We hear rumors that a newly modded instrument may make an appearance at the show. Also on the bill will be the hard-rockin' Irish triad Culann's Hound... and PowerTool drag racing under the lights! The inimitable Hieronymus Isambard "Jake" Von Slatt of the Steampunk Workshop will be Master of Ceremonies. The evening's festivities and the Steampunk Spectaular will begin as the Expo and other halls close, after 6pm. See you on the dancefloor!
Am SOO excited.
Will report back with pics.