I had an AMAZING time as always at the NYC World Maker Faire, on September 26 & 27!
The last few weeks leading up to the NYC Maker Faire were blur of drawing and getting ready! Working on an NYC-themed pop up of all my favourite places in the city was a highlight - as was visiting each once we arrived!
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Working away on a 'flock' of pocket-sized exploding lotus Intersections; TOR
Checking out my folds and inserts.
The 5 hour delay at the airport ended up being the perfect production space: we settled in with coffee and got to folding!
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This year, I brought down a variety of my large-scale bookworks,
including both a new Exploding Lotus called Intersections:TOR & a
Pop Up New York City - hot off the press!
One of the highlights every year is meeting other enthusiastic makers: artists and illustrators; an epic insta-soap-workshop run by a trio of friendly Texans; 3D printers working on letterpress and gear-driven trebuchets; the world's tiniest CEO walking around selling his self-published book. It's such a treasure to be surrounded by creative spirits!
Setting up next to Shane Evan's 30 foot tall Resurrection Robot, made out of recycled planes, was definitely a highlight!
I was also delighted to win the NYC World's Maker's Faire Editor's Choice Award
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& The Best in Class Award!
While at the Faire, I worked along on a book of all the creative Maker
ventures happening all around us: the LifeSize Mousetrap, making rockets
underneath actual rockets, puppet-building near the UniSphere, and of
course POP UP BOOKS!!!!
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We were surprised to find out the Pope was visiting NYC on the same weekend, but this is as close as we could get!
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A kaleidoscope dome!
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Robo-poetry on the go!
This furry friend.
Getting oriented at the Maker Faire!
And my pop up map of what I saw that weekend - thanks to all the Makers who came and made their own with me!!
Thanks to all the Makers, movers and shakers, colouring enthusiasts and general awesome people who I got to say hello to!!! See you next year!!