Ascending Maslow's Hierarchy
Maker Faire Bay Area 2015
MAKERS
Alton Sun
Alton loves making things, and believes that curating quality community is one of the highest leverage ways to greater human happiness. This maker faire, he intends to share some of the tools he uses to live an abundant life. Cheatcodes at life.
Kelly Chou
Together they have lived in abandoned military bases or on a man-made islands at the burning-man-but-on-the-water called Ephemerisle We've shared much with our immediate friends. Now we'd like to share more of what we've made with you.
Valerie Beltran
Valerie has shaped a lot of Alton's ideas on connection and engagement on a deeper level than just friends. In a world obsessed with upping numbers, she's highlighted the value of quality in that quantity.
Cat Maria
Another world traveler and maker, Cat exudes life, and wants to share it with you. 20% chance of coming, though.
We self-select people into or out of our lives on a moment to moment basis.
Alton Sun wishes to share with you some of the tools he's used to gain a deeper appreciation of time & community + how he got there through the maker mentality.
What inspired you to make this project?:
The fact that we all have so many beautiful interactions happening around us all the time, but it so easily forget, and after taking a bunch of psychology classes and learning that our brains aren't exactly wired with our long term benefits in mind. If we want to become as great as we hope to be, we need to start cooperating with our future selves now.
One way to share and connect with others around us and our future selves is to make us more accessible, relatable. We can open up and connect with so many more when we are more regularly observant and expressive. It doesn't take much to dedicate yourself to doing something distinct and then share it with the world any more. I love that Maker Faire provides that as a platform for all of us.
