[hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted

[James Arlen]

So, I know a lot more about things after last night. 

The show is going to be built around the "super team of makers / hackers" who spend 6-12 months traveling around and competing in completions like punkin chunkin and power racer and whatever else the team and production company can come up with.

They will create drama through limitations on materials and from the challenges themselves rather than some false interpersonal relationship crap.

I should have the casting call / audition details later today and will post them.


J


On 2012-02-15, at 8:33, Padraic Harley <padraic at 091labs.com> wrote:

> Sounds like a mix of Mythbusters and Scrapheap Challenge =)
> 
> Whoever gets involved, make sure that ye show as much stuff as possible that people can buy to make by themselves, the usual: Arduinos, 3d Printers, etc. I'm sure there are companies out there that would love to throw money at a show that recommends their site to buy the stuff from...
> 
> The common theme with most shows like this is "Don't try this at hone, kids". That would seem to me to be a most unmaker-like proposition. So point out "Yes, you can do stuff like this from home... Just please reduce chances of soldering your fingers to the board while doing so!"
> 
> My two cents anyway.
> Cheers,
> Padraic
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> On Feb 15, 2012 12:59 AM, "Mitch Altman" <maltman23 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I turn off TVs for a living, and yet I go on TV all the time.  Making TV content is fun.  Watching it is usually another story.  But if you have a message, and you present it well, then it is very possible to have this medium broadcast your message in a way you like.
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> If I weren't so busy, I'd consider putting in a proposal for this show.
>  
> Mitch.
>  
> From: myrcurial at thinkhaus.org
> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:11 -0500
> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted
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> Well, Proper has a history of producing some fairly high quality stuff (Canada's Worst Driver, Canada's Worst Handyman) and yes, reality tv is contrived, but much like many of the other "issues" facing hacker/makerspaces (corporate involvement, DARPA, etc.) there are opinions as far ranging as one could imagine - and there is unlikely to be anything at all like consensus.
> 
> I vote that we paint the mailing list blue for the duration.
> 
> J
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> On 2012-02-14, at 4:34 PM, Charlie X Wallace wrote:
> 
> Wouldn’t that be basically a documentary, and not reality tv?
>  
> It is interesting, most of the people around hacker/makerspaces say they don’t have tv’s, don’t watch tv etc, but then complain when there is nothing on they want to watch. like dale being bumped off cnn by whitney.
>  
> we get a lot of people asking us to go on various shows, film/tv projects but we turn them all away, most of them will just be appealing to the LCD, you’ll never out-do them since they have full control of the edit/final cut and the people who make the final decisions on what direction the show will take couldn’t care less about how stupid it makes people look, that is what currently sells.
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> From: Jerry Isdale
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 1:22 PM
> To: discuss at lists.hackerspaces.org
> Subject: Re: [hackerspaces] Fwd: Makers Wanted
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> "Proper Television is developing a new series about Makers"...
>  
> Interesting. A couple of my local makers (Garrett Lisi and Reichart von Wolfsheild) recently had a show (Invention USA) on History Channel.
> (http://www.history.com/shows/invention-usa)
> It was a rather trying experience for them. The RealityTV people want controversy, angst, humor and action - real or contrived. And a lot of it was contrived by the script writers.
>  
> I hope Proper Television does a proper job of documenting and not trying to overly glamorize or create controversy and questionable humor.
>  
> Jerry Isdale
> http://MauiMakers.com
> http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/
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