From Pop Culture to Prop Culture: Converting Virtual into Reality.
Maker Faire Bay Area 2019
May 17th-19th
The Making Geeks Podcast will be talking about their experience as makers over the last four years and how they have integrated their love of geek and pop culture into woodworking, prop making and electronics.
Wes Swain
After a stint in the US Navy, and even a full time video game tester, Wes became an at-home dad to his two kids and launched a multimedia studio called Geeksmithing. Here he explores making things using a wide range of materials & techniques mixed with a dash of geeky nostalgia. Painting, sculpting, 3d modeling/printing, robotics, & CNC are but a few of the topics covered on his YouTube channel.
http://geeksmithing.com
Shawn Jolicoeur
Shawn has spent the last 12 years as a public educator, but has recently drawn on his computer science and animation background to launch his YouTube Channel GeekBuilders, where he focuses on geek related builds with his kids to inspire families to build and experiment together.
http://geekbuilders.net/
Josh Price
Josh runs The P.I. Workshop, a workspace aimed at teaching homeschooled kids building, prototyping, and problem solving skills. When not in his own shop, he can be found working with Bob Clagett at I Like to Make Stuff making super fun YouTube videos. Josh has three kids and specializes in woodworking, CNC milling, 3D printing, project management, sarcasm, and tomfoolery.
http://thepiworkshop.com
Donovan Ewing
Coming from a background of animation, film-making and being raised by a woodworker (dad) and a crafter (mom), he puts all those things together to create narrative style build videos on YouTube. Through mixing nostalgia with power tools, he creates fun and functional geek-themed projects based on video games, movies, cartoons, and pop culture.
https://www.instagram.com/onceuponaworkbench/
