I'm headed to China in a few days, and I'm getting more and more excited. One of the few things that takes the wind out my sails is that I have to miss this year's Maker Faire. Last year's Maker Faire was like a religious experience for me. When I wasn't helping the children of the bay area make sumi-e paintball paintings, I was soaking up the awesomeness of the assembled makers, crafters, artists and assorted weirdos. I came away with the knowledge that America's big wet sloppy love affair with making things isn't coming to an end anytime soon.
One person who has been busy getting ready for the Faire is Charlie Bucket of CasualProfanity.com. Charlie knitted the above sculpture out of some surgical tubing, then connected it to an array of low tech/high tech pumps and processors that push different colors of fluids and bubbles through the tubes. The result? A lava lamp meets "Waltzing Waters" meets Hunter S. Thompson desert mushroom ball-trippin'. Mr. Bucket stresses that this is only a PROTOTYPE for what he'll bring to Maker Faire. You'll have to tell me if the real thing is made out of translucent fire hoses.
The object lesson? Get your butt on over to Maker Faire next weekend. Somebody has to make me jealous.
