In this post I depart from Making things in the physical world (mostly) and throw my hat into the fray of competing ideologies. (That’s a dirty lie, I’m sort of an academic and live much of my life in the fray of competing ideologies.) I’m also proposing that Making doesn’t have to be brand new [...]
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Conceptual Framework
Posted by James Carp on September 13, 2009
http://jamescarp.org/conceptual-framework/
Trying to Express Making
I went to the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco last Sunday. It was a fascinating event. The throngs of consumers, of which I was a part, examining and buying from the booths of ostentatiously handmade, but often simply seller designed, wares was eye opening. First off, there was nothing ‘renegade’ about this event. (Renegade [...]
Posted by James Carp on July 24, 2009
http://jamescarp.org/trying-to-express-making/
Camera, frustration & Chili
In a classic example of why being good with my hands serves me well I was gifted a camera yesterday. The camera in question had fallen out of a second story window. When it was retrieved, the lens wouldn’t retract. The camera was declared busted, but I still wanted to examine it. Upon handling it I realized that the [...]
Posted by James Carp on July 11, 2009
http://jamescarp.org/camera-frustration-chili/
Moo Card Designs
Let it first be said that I don’t like how Blogger handles images. The batch upload limit is too small (5), the formatting options once in my post are pathetic and the window for composing in is too small. Why don’t they make the composition window as large as my browser window? or at least [...]
Posted by James Carp on July 7, 2009
http://jamescarp.org/moo-card-designs/
A Beginning
I’ll start by admitting that this (writing to the theoretical anonymous masses) is awkward for me. My original idea was to use consistent blogging to manufacture the illusion of social pressure to have things to blog about. In this case specifically what I have always called ‘Making’ (more on what that is later). I’ve been putting it [...]
Posted by James Carp on July 5, 2009
http://jamescarp.org/a-beginning/