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"Crude Awakening" Action Figures
Dan Das Mann + Karen Cusolito–Das Womann
Epiphany, Mumbatu and Ecstasy are three of the figures from "Crude Awakening," a massive collaboration created for the Burning Man event in 2007. One hundred and eighty people contributed in some fashion to the construction of the 100' tall "Revered Oil Derrick," the eight 30' tall figures of the faithful, the fantabulous and explosive pyrotechnics show, the original musical score, and the unforgettable finale that was seared into the minds of the 45,000 who witnessed it.
| Location: Makers Market |
Camera Obscura Theater
A 10’x10’ camera obscura that will be an interactive theater. Attendees will view the surrounding environment from inside the camera obscura. As the image will be reversed left to right and top to bottom, sculptural elements will be placed outside to enhance the illusion and provide props for entertainment.
| Location: Makers Market |
City Bag Trade
Kendra Stanley
How do you combine fashion, practicality, and sustainability into one product? You recycle old rain jackets into grocery bags!
Welcome to the next evolution in social responsibility through environmentally safe and friendly alternatives to plastic.
My intentions are to increase awareness around the use and waste of common, plastic grocery store bags, and to hopefully change our old bag habits.
| Location: Makers Market |
D-I-Y @ Home & Work: Cohousing, Coworking, EcoVillages, Neighborhoods
Raines Cohen
Share your vision of community at home or at work by writing on the bike-towed mobile mini-trailer's whiteboard sides or recording your video reactions to other green community visions. Make connections -- you have the power and support you need to reshape where you live and work.
| Location: Makers Market |
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company
Devil's Canyon Brewing Company, located in the heart of the San Francisco bay area peninsula, produces award winning, hand-crafted beers centered on the most premium ingredients. Brewed in Belmont, and delivered to over 100 taps on the peninsula. Please support local businesses and enjoy our premium beers.
| Location: Makers Market |
Get Soapy
Learn to make your own bars of soap using a glycerin base that you can easily melt and pour.
| Location: Makers Market |
Handcrafted Herbals
Herbal body products: bath salts, oils, salves, powders, bath teas, salt scrubs
Herbal culinary products: herbal salts, sugars, vinegars, cooking oils, and herbes de provence
Everything is organic.
| Location: Makers Market |
Homemade Hydroponics
Two simple yet effective hydroponic systems. One is an ebb and flow system made from a storage tub, PVC pipe, and PVC fence post, used for growing tomatoes. The other is a lettuce raft, constructed from a storage tub, foam sheet, recycled cups, and an aquarium pump. Also overclocked fluorescent lighting.
| Location: Makers Market near Techne group |
ibog
A mobile personal flush composting toilet that turns raw sewage into a beautiful wetland garden. Also check out the urine recycling garden.
| Location: Makers Market Near Techne group |
Infrared Vacuum Dehydrator -- "Raw Oven"
Baking and frying food produce dangerous chemical byproducts, and prompt nutritionists to have us eat steamed or raw. Water boils in a vacuum at room temperature, and infrared heats efficiently. We combine both to make chips, crackers, breads, etc. that people truly love, in a healthy, low temperature way.
| Location: Makers Market |
Jam Making with cmbsweets!
Carolina Braunschweig
Start with a basket of fruit. Add a drop of sugar, a squeeze of lemon and a whole gallon of love. Then set it to boil. The result? Happiness in a jar. cmbsweets is a San Francisco-based jam-maker celebrating only-in-California fruits and flavors: apricot-habanero, olallieberry, blood orange...
| Location: Makers Market |
KUKIS KUKAS Hand-Decorated Cookies
Delicious hand-decorated cookies, elaborated with the finest ingredients.
| Location: Makers Market |
Life Size Mousetrap
The LIFE SIZE MOUSETRAP is a fantastically hand crafted, 16 piece, 50,000-lb. interactive KINETIC SCULPTURE set atop a 6,500-square-foot game board.
This giant Rube Goldberg style contraption comes complete with a VAUDEVILLIAN style show, original MUSICAL SCORE by The one woman band
Esmerelda Strange, Sexy Mice CAN-CAN DANCERS, Clown workers, acrobatic HI JINKS, and other SPECTACULAR SCENES dedicated to the pursuit of spectacle-laden FUN!
| Location: Makers Market |
Plumb Yourself Off the Water Grid: Greywater and Composting Toilets
Want a bountiful garden irrigated from your greywater? Interested in a toilet that uses no water? Learn how to reduce dependence on the water grid with simple, low-tech, low-cost options of harvesting rainwater, reusing greywater, and having waterless composting toilets. Check out our life-size models and put together demo-systems yourself!
| Location: Makers Market near Techne group |
Point Focus Solar
The general scope of the exhibit covers some description and contextual analysis of the solar concentrators. This includes power towers at Barstow, Wiezman Institutes prototype beamdown technology, ring arrays, compact linear freznal arrays from Australia, Kramer junctions parabolic trough plants, aspects of the reflective lens. Other technologically relevant threads will include windowed flux reaction chambers for making flux augmented fuels and detoxifying waste, space propulsion, space chemical materials processing, and space power systems in relation to terrestrial implementation.
| Location: Makers Market |
San Mateo County RecycleWorks
Demonstrations of live worm bins and backyard composting bins, with information on recycling, integrated pest management (IPM), green building, and how to reuse common household items.
| Location: Makers Market |
Savonius Wind Power Home Power Plant
This Wind Turbine is designed for generating electricity in environments that may not be suited or able to have a standard propeller type wind installation. I am currently making the unit self standing for portability to bring it to the Maker Faire.
| Location: Makers Market |
Solar Dyeing
Using solar energy to dye yarn, fibers and fabrics. This is not sunprinting, but using the solar energy to set dyes.
| Location: Makers Market |
TCHO
TCHO is a new kind of chocolate company for a new generation of chocolate enthusiasts. Modern, innovative and fun, TCHO is dedicated to creating obsessively good dark chocolate and the best chocolate experience.
| Location: Makers Market |
Urban Permaculture: Hands-on Seedballs
The Merritt College Permaculture Class will show you how to make seedballs. Ever notice how well weeds grow around here? Want to grow food like weeds? Learn how to use open pollinated seeds, clay, compost, and grow food or food for local wildlife (native seeds). Mix them all together and seedballs can become seedbombs of explosive fecundity!
| Location: Makers Market near Techne group |
Within Reach Film
Ryan Mlynarczyk
Made out of 100% reused and recycled materials and old bike parts, we have created a bike trailer with a 'sleep-in' pop-up tent, and solar panels to charge two hub wheel motors (with regenerative braking) and electronic devices. We plan to use this invention along with a tandem recumbent tricycle to tour around the United States to film a documentary about sustainable communities.
| Location: Makers Market |
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