Make Magazine / Boing Boing on Martha Stewart !
While I was paying bills in the back my wife called me out front to see a portion of the Martha Stewart Show that she said I would be interested in.
Make's Editor in Chief, Mark Frauenfelder demonstrated such things as the VCR cat feeder, cigar box guitar, and Vibro-bots on the show.
Make's site currently has this on their front page @ Makezine.com
Discussions
10 years ago
Wow, that is cool, and really appropriate. We may not like her, but Martha Stewart is very much a maker, and a strong advocate of the maker philosophy.
Reply 10 years ago
Actually, I adore Martha.
Reply 10 years ago
I like her attitude on making things.....some things are not things I'd have in my home however :-)
Reply 10 years ago
I think that's generically true of any maker -- there are a lot of things on this site that I wouldn't want to have in my home :-) But Ms. Stewart has been advocating for, and demonstrating by example, the Maker ethic for many years before either MAKE Magazine or I'bles existed. And the fact that she developed a cadre of millions of enthusiastic fans says a lot for just how compelling that Maker ethic can be.
Reply 10 years ago
Oh I agree. The only thing I am upset about is that her empire did crush some of the upstart makers......a few years before her incarceration, there were at least 2-3 other shows on with a very similar MAKE @ HOME theme, but they all fell to the wayside, not because they weren't good (I can't remember the names off the top of my head), but because they couldn't complete. I watched one of them on a regular basis back then (before I started in here).
Reply 10 years ago
Who doesn't? Martha is a maker god. Before I was an 'ibler, I would watch her show, particularly for the gardening and cooking.
Reply 10 years ago
She could have collaborated on this. The admins had to draw the line at the "file in the cake" ibles.
Reply 10 years ago
Yeah, that was because the Guards kept breaking their teeth on those files.....
Reply 10 years ago
Yes, I suppose that is very much so (it was kind of funny when her Vibro-bot worked and Mark's FAIL(ed) ;-)
10 years ago
I thought she was in jail?
Reply 10 years ago
5 years ago. :D
Reply 10 years ago
Sometimes the news is a little slow from the colonies...
Reply 10 years ago
What? Martha is in jail? I'll have to contact the Sydney Morning Herald via the good ole' crank phone.
Reply 10 years ago
The operative word is was ;-)
Reply 10 years ago
and then after her release she wore an ankle alarm and was under house arrest for a bit.
Reply 10 years ago
that was punishment for her awful Apprentice-like reality show...
Reply 10 years ago
It couldn't be any worse than the original....I have been forced to spend time with my wife, while she watched it and I found it totally boring and obtuse.