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Nov 18

MEDIUM:Coffee - Latte Art for Non-Latte Artists

What would happen if you took Toronto artists in traditional media: oil, water colour, acrylics and let them loose on latte foam? That’s the question the MEDIUM:Coffee event planned for Grinder (126 Main Street, Toronto - near Gerrard) hopes to answer. The event is a part of the MakerCulture Project (http://makingmakers.posterous.com) a journalism project by students at Ryerson and Western Universities. 

MEDIUM: Coffee starts at 8 p.m. this Friday night. Artists will be given expert coffee art tips by Grinder barista (and Ryerson student) Adam Vrankulj and then will jump into an action-packed judged event. Spectators welcome. MEDIUM:Coffee will also be streamed live online at http://livestream.com/foodepisode. For details contact artii01@gmail.com.

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Nov 17

An Audio Essay on the MakerCulture Project So Far #mcry

Makercultureessay by Wayne Macphail  
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MakerCultureEssay.mp3 (2113 KB)

Just some evening thoughts about the project so far - Wayne

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Nov 16

Video - Adam and Arti talk about the MEDIUM:Coffee event Nov 20 at 8 p.m. #mcry

Adam and Arti of the Food Group talk about MEDIUM:Coffee a latte art event for non-latte artists. It will be a live event at Grinder, 126 Main Street in Toronto and will be streamed live at http://livestream.com/foodepisode. The foam starts at 8 p.m. EST November 20.

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Video- Adam and Arti talk about the MEDIUM:Coffee event Nov 20 at 8 p.m.

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Adam and Arti of the Food Group talk about MEDIUM:Coffee a latte art event for non-latte artists. It will be a live event at Grinder, 126 Main Street in Toronto and will be streamed live at http://livestream.com/foodepisode. The foam starts at 8 p.m. EST November 20.

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Nov 13

Final Edupunk Panel Event Poster - Monday Nov 16, 7 p.m. EST - Join Us #mcry #edupunk #edchat

Here’s the final Edupunk Panel poster. Hope you can all join us for the live video stream at http://livestream.com/edupunk. It should be a great discussion about this growing movement of folks who are taking education into their own hands. Join in the chatroom. We’ll be taking questions for our panelists.

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Cory Doctorow on the Future and MakerCulture from Last Night

The MakerCulture Project caught up with author Cory Doctorow at the launch of his new book “Makers” in Toronto. This is a quick doc about the setup for that interview, and a bit of the interview itself. 

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MakerCulture at Cory Doctorow's "Maker" Book Launch last night #mcry

Last night the “Issues and What’s Next” Team of the MakerCulture Project dropped in the the launch of Cory Doctorow’s new book “Makers” at the Merrill Collection of the Toronto sf reference library. Here they are at work interviewing some of the hundreds of makers and fans who packed the room, and the hallways, for the event. Have to say Doctorow was a total pro and treated all his fans and the team with enormous energy, respect and interest. Class act, as was the team.

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Nov 11

Poss poster for our upcoming Edupunk conference #mcry

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Nov 8

Possible poster for our MakerCulture Latte Art Event #mcry

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Nov 7

Clay Shirky on Social Media, Newspapers and Accelerants for Maker Culture #mcry

 
Clay Shirky talks with Laura Flanders on GRITtv about social media and newspapers: “I don’t think we can save newspapers. The question is can we save journalism?” Also strong prediction about the death of bookstores in a decade thanks to e-books. 

Key statement for MakerCulture: “We now have a set of tools we can use as an accelerant for positive creation of value by groups of people for themselves and for society.”

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Maker Culture and Aha Moments #mcry

This week the University of Western Ontario MakerCulture gang had a long discussion about what they’ve discovered about Maker Culture so far. So far being comprised of research; interviews and enterprising, far-flung fieldtrips. It was a great, heart-felt exchange. It was the first time, as their instructor, that I felt we really connected about the project and were all beginning to see it through the same lens. One student said she had come to understand that Maker Culture wasn’t just about people making things, it was about the community that evolves when the process of making things is communicated. 
“We’re moving from a culture of selfishness to a culture of sharing,” she said. Another student explained that it wasn’t enough that each group explain how 3D printers, or broom making or zine creation works.  ”We just can’t do a series of Wikipedia entries,” he said, urging the other students to see how what each of them is discovering fits into the larger fabric of Maker Culture. Other students noted that we just aren’t researching a story about Maker Culture, we’re actually helping draw the community together and discover other facets of itself. This is certainly true of the EduPunk Team, which is creating a unique EduPunk panel as part of its work. 

The students discovered, together, that we are making a difference, already, before we’ve even officially “published” anything. By using the collaborative, cooperative spirit of Maker Culture to cover the movement we are helping the movement and others find the very thing we’re unpacking.
Listening to the students, one-by-one, share their insights, their discoveries and their “aha” moments, I was savouring the best hour of the class so far - one where I said very little and let the best minds in the room reveal what was unfolding inside them. They were finding, by themselves, the spirit of sharing that makes Maker Culture such a fascinating subject for budding journalists - and for all of us.

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Nov 5

Laser-Etched Dogtag Souvenir

Wayne here: The Fabricator Group visited the Fab Lab in Cleveland, Ohio housed in the Lorain County Community College this past weekend. While they were there they were nice enough to laser etch me an aluminium dogtag. Thanks guys. I will fob it with pride. Plus, I’m now saving up for an Epiloglaser.

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Nov 2

AmpersandAmpersand at Canzine video #mcry

Kristine Tortora, one half of AmpersandAmpersand, a DIY screen printing duo, explains how here typography-based screen prints are all about Maker Culture. Shot at the Canzine zinefest at the Gladstone Hotel on November 1 for Team Media.

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Nov 1

Team Media of MakerCulture at Canzine - the Video! #mcry

Team Media arrives at Canzine and sets to work.

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