Mark Frauenfelder & Carla Sinclair

Talk Description

People are rediscovering the lost arts of making and crafting things. What did our culture lose when we stopped making things for fun and why did we ever stop in the first place? Why is it so rewarding to use your hands? Who wants to be a consumer when you can also be a producer? Mark and Carla present 'The Happy Mutant's Guide to the Modern Maker Movement.'

Biography

Perhaps best known for founding the Boing Boing blog, author and illustrator Mark Frauenfelder originally published a small print magazine with his wife, Carla Sinclair, called bOING bOING. Seth Godin, author of Small is the New Big, has said, “Frauenfelder doesn't just live on the cutting edge…he is the cutting edge.” In addition to Boing Boing, Frauenfelder has published several books including The Happy Mutant Handbook, Mad Professor, World's Worst, The Computer, and Rule the Web. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, MIT Technology Review, SmallTimes, the Industry Standard, and Wired (where he was an editor 1993-1998); he is a contributing editor to TheFeature and a design columnist for Mobile PC magazine, and is currently editor-in-chief of Make magazine. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering and worked in the disk drive industry in the 1980s. Sinclair edited The Happy Mutant Handbook and bOING bOING and is editor-in-chief of Craft Magazine. She has published several books, including Net Chick and Signal to Noise.