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Sunday, 30 April 2017
This Week in Making: Doctor Who Sonic Screwdriver, Mad Max Mobiles, and Double Action Keyboard
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Saturday, 29 April 2017
Weekend Watch: The Mesmerizing Timelapse of Machine Embroidery
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Friday, 28 April 2017
Filament Friday: “Silk Like” Filament Gives Glossy Prints
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7 Ways Makers Are Increasing the Care in Health Care
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Get Hands-on With the Nvidia Jetson TX2 Developer Kit at GTC 2017
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Who Are the Women of the Internet of Things?
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Build a 1930’s Style Dieselpunk Cellphone
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Thursday, 27 April 2017
The Making of Cardboard Knight at Bindlestiff Studio’s “The Geek Show”
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Edible Innovations: FarmBot Helps Automate Small-Scale Food Production
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Talk Time Artistry at Thomas Crane Public Library
Written with assistance from Linda Zhou
For the past seven years, the Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy, Massachusetts has hosted English Talk Time for English Language Learners. Program participants, 150 students as well as part-time library staff and a crew of dedicated volunteers, sometimes frequent the library’s art gallery space, using the current exhibition as a starting point of discussion.
This winter, Talk Time took the role of art in English language development to a new level. Talk Time volunteer Linda Zhou explained that while art was a source of personal fulfillment for many of the students, none had yet imagined the source of empowerment it would soon become, working together as a group. Talk Time applied to host its first show in the gallery, and once it was accepted, Linda and the students designed the winter term’s curriculum around an art exhibition that featured Talk Time students as artists, curators, gallerists, and event planners.
Fabled City (2008) Silk Batik Fiber Art by Anna Movila. Photo by Linda Zhou.
Elephant Herd (2013) Acrylic on Canvas Triptych Painting by Anna Movila. Photo by Linda Zhou.
That means that students develop literacy skills around everything from the “vocabulary of art, project management, ballots [for a juried portion of the art show], marketing and PR, cataloging, and even bio blurbs about the artists,” Linda says. Students with an artistic background either created new work or reproductions, or brought pieces from their collections, while the other students learned how to interview their artist classmates, craft artist statements, write labels, and press releases. The show featured works by five student artists.
The response from the library and the wider Quincy community, which boasts a vibrant immigrant population, was “extremely supportive. We’ll do more innovative events in the future,” Linda says enthusiastically. She hopes to not only book space in the art gallery for another show, but to create a whole campaign around the idea of Talk Time Artistry. The show was an opportunity for all the students to feel like they “matter” and that “people will listen.”
To learn more about Talk Time Artistry at Thomas Crane Public Library, and to see more images of the exhibition, check out these resources:
- Overview of Talk Time Artistry exhibit, written by Talk Time students (pdf)
- Recipe for Talk Time Artistry – make it happen at your library! (pdf)
- Information about Talk Time Artistry exhibit, from Thomas Crane Public Library website
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Wednesday, 26 April 2017
Shapeways Offers Access to New HP 3D Printing Technology
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Maker Spotlight: Peter Hudson
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The MakeShift Challenge: Broken Arm in the Wilderness
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Cosplay, Cotton Candy, and Disco Shine Bright at Maker Faire Cairo
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PAGES TO PROJECTS: Shadow Play
This post originally appeared on the LAIP in April 2016.
by Rebecca Dunn
Rabbit finds himself in the company of a mysterious black rabbit that seems to follow him wherever he goes. He tries to run, swim, and hide from the large figure (it’s actually Rabbit’s own shadow), but the black rabbit is always at his heels. Little does Rabbit know that the black rabbit is more friend than foe. Both funny and a feel-good tale, The Black Rabbit is a storytime crowd-pleaser that serves as a terrific platform to discuss shadows with kids. After reading, take the book one step further and demonstrate with a flashlight how a shadow is made.
After reading about shadows, it’s project time! Making shadow puppets is a creative and interactive way to explore the art and science behind shadows. You can facilitate this project in two ways depending on resources available and age of kids you’re working with.
Materials
- Black construction paper or cardstock
- Chopsticks, kebab skewers, or popsicle sticks
- White crayons
- Scissors
- Tape
Option A: Leave all the above supplies on the table and allow kids to make their own puppets using what’s available. Invite them to draw images with white crayons, cut out their puppet shape, tape to a chopstick or skewer, and repeat until they have a cast of characters.
Option B: If you happen to have a younger crowd and access to an AccuCut machine, you can pre-cut shapes out of dark paper as a modification of this activity. Kids can color the cutouts or accessorize with whatever materials you have on hand, tape to a chopstick, and play!
Have flashlights readily available to bring puppets to life, or set up a stage by hanging a white bed sheet illuminated by a backlight. Setting up a stage for children to act out their own stories isn’t only a great way to stretch their imaginations and narrative skills, it also provides a model to caregivers on how they can create this type of stimulating play in their own home.
For tips on using and making shadow puppets in storytime, check out this post on So Tomorrow and for more shadow projects and programming ideas, be sure to visit this awesome post on Library Makers. Both blogs are fantastic storytime and project resources!
Additional Picture Books About Shadows:
- Moonbear’s Shadow by Frank Asch
- Shadow by Suzy Lee
- Guess Whose Shadow by Stephen R. Swinburne
- Nothing Sticks Like a Shadow by Ann Tompert, illustrated by Lynn Munsinger
- The Game of Shadows by Hervé Tullet
Want More?
If you’ve been inspired by Rebecca’s projects or have used her storytime plans at your library, we’d love to hear about it! Share your experience in the comments or on social media!
- For more activities and art projects check out the Pages to Projects Pinterst board.
- Don’t miss previous Pages to Projects blog posts!
- You can connect with Rebecca on Twitter @rebeccazdunn
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Tuesday, 25 April 2017
Maker Pro News: Printing Houses, Flying Cars, and More
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Edible Innovations: Founding a Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Factory
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Stamping the Moon’s Craters onto a Leather Notebook Cover
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Monday, 24 April 2017
3D Printing Fidget Spinners
The latest craze seems to be these Fidget spinners for idle hands. They can easily be 3D printed in an hour from the thousands of already made files out there in tinkercad and other sites.
If you have a 3D printing class coming up at the library hosting a fidget spinner design course in tinkercad will be a sure sell out. People are already started to create their own tutorials based on the size of their ball bearings.
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Review: Shapeoko XXL Is a Super-Sized Kit for Desktop CNC Carving
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How to Cast Your Own Vinyl Records
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Sunday, 23 April 2017
This Week in Making: Star Wars Droids, Comic Con, and Deadly Paper Cuts
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Saturday, 22 April 2017
20 Maker-Made Projects For Earth Day
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Weekend Watch: Cosplay, Painting, and Drumming with Gladzy Kei
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Friday, 21 April 2017
Filament Friday: NinjaFlex Squishy Fun
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PCB Board Design: Why You Should Care About Fiducial Marks
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Get Ready for the March for Science with These Inspiring Video Interviews
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Thursday, 20 April 2017
Reverse Engineering a Ravioli Rolling Pin
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Two East Coast Communities Celebrate Six Years of Maker Faires This Saturday
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Tikkun Olam Makers Come to NYC This Weekend for Huge Accessibility Makeathon
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Edible Innovations: Improving the Food Industry’s Safety and Quality Tests
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Book to Art Club: Updates for 2017
Today we bring you a long-overdue update on a sibling project of ours, The Book to Art Club!
First things first; the Book to Art Club can now be found at a new URL: http://ift.tt/2pGeEi6.
We are very pleased to report that the Club, now in its third year, boasts over 25 chapters with locations in 16 states and one Canadian province! Membership includes readers+makers of all ages and a variety of library types from academic to public to school libraries. Check out the Club’s member section to learn more.
I also need to give a major shout-out to Ann Miller, Makerspace Coordinator for Mead Public Library in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, who is doing much of the Book to Art Club website coordinating and updating. Make sure to check out the Book to Art Club blog to see some of the amazing projects inspired by books.
Book page art ideas for the Brand Library & Art Center’s discussion of “The Night Circus” by Erin Morgenstern.
Interested in starting a Book to Art Club at your library? Check out the Guide section to get started. Are you interested in helping add to our featured titles section? Shoot us an email at libraryasincubatorproject@gmail.com. Happy making!
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Wednesday, 19 April 2017
Add a T-Slot Bed to Your X-Carve for Easy, Rigid Workholding
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The MakeShift Challenge: Impaled on a Tree!
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Public Demesne: Using Public Domain Images to raise funds
This post and series originally appeared on the LAIP in April 2016.
by Allana Mayer
The Concept
In early January 2016, I started a fundraiser for the Society of American Archivists Mosaic Scholarship, which was made to encourage diverse entrants into the field. I wanted to contribute, but didn’t have money to spare. Instead, I created a print-on-demand store with Society6 to sell items with designs I had made. Of course, I don’t have artistic skill, either, so I modified existing illustrations from the public domain.
I’m here to document what I did, in order to show how easy it is to get a shop up and running. The benefits for cultural heritage institutions are multiple: make some cash, promote your collections, enrich the world with beautiful vintage visuals, print your own art for your walls, and learn a new skill!
The process I employed to generate profitable clothes, home decor, phone cases, and a bunch of other cool stuff is pretty straightforward:
- Identify awesome images in the public domain
- Get the highest-quality version you can
- Use Photoshop to turn the paper transparent and thicken up the ink lines
- Use Illustrator to vectorize the image and scale it to a desired size
- Use Photoshop to generate various versions of the image, depending on what products you want to sell
- Upload each version to your print-on-demand shop according to their instructions
- Promote to your pals and your library’s patrons
- Make money for your library!
How It All Started
I browse the Flickr Commons pretty regularly, for images to illustrate articles and blog posts and sometimes just for my own amusement. When you look through the Commons these days, you’ll notice that a lot of the images shared are being generated through a robot that identifies images and illustrations in books uploaded to the Internet Archive. You’ll find that the generator will spit out a bunch of images from one book at a time. So, there I was browsing, and this image caught my eye:
I thought “That would look great on a t-shirt.” So I put it on one.
I followed the Commons image back to its source: a history book by John Ridpath from 1897, uploaded to the Internet Archive by the Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University. It’s an expansive text that covers science, the birth of man, and a chunk of (now rather pejorative) anthropological examinations of different cultures. Despite the racism, I found some of the chemistry and astronomy parts of the text truly charming, and the illustrations fantastic.
You, of course, will have a library collection to work from. You’ll have access to lots of public-domain materials in your special collections, and maybe even high-quality digitization tools to do your own image capture. But maybe not – maybe you’re in need of a fundraiser, or branded gifts for guest speakers or awards, and you don’t have any of these things. Don’t worry – the public domain is here for you.
If you want to do as I did, and work from only one book, you can use the tags auto-generated by the robot (whatever starts with “bookid”). If you’re going for a theme, the images are relatively well-described and searchable. If you’re really starved for ideas, try searching the Commons for “geometry,” “botany,” “anatomy,” or “astronomy” – those are always inspiring to me. Just remember: if you’re finding “Internet Archive Book Images” uploads, they’re of lower quality than the original scans, so follow the images back to their source on the Internet Archive.
In the next post, I’ll talk about what to do with the designs you’ve found; I’ll go through my own process step-by-step, so you can see how it works.
Check it out online:
- The shop: http://ift.tt/1Uew7JB
- This shop is a fundraiser for the Society of American Archivists Foundation’s Mosaic Scholarship.
- It uses images from the public domain, found on the Internet Archive.
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Tuesday, 18 April 2017
Build Metal Tool Racks Without Welding
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Take a Video Tour Through Maker Faire Hong Kong
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