Comments on: Cool clothes and styles of Maker Faire attendees http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 14:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: mitchellpowers http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428969 mitchellpowers Mon, 21 May 2012 13:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428969 Agressive Tattoo?  Cannot scrute this. Agressive Tattoo?  Cannot scrute this.

]]> By: mitchellpowers http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428959 mitchellpowers Mon, 21 May 2012 13:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428959 4th from top is MC Subzero Permafrost!  New Orleans East in the Building!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRsUK-AScLE 4th from top is MC Subzero Permafrost!  New Orleans East in the Building! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRsUK-AScLE

]]> By: Al Billings http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428848 Al Billings Mon, 21 May 2012 02:56:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428848  Those guys standing around with their outsized prop guns WERE there for you to take your picture with them. They were part of a costuming booth!  Those guys standing around with their outsized prop guns WERE there for you to take your picture with them. They were part of a costuming booth!

]]> By: penguinchris http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428819 penguinchris Mon, 21 May 2012 00:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428819 I got that sense when I went last year. But it quickly became obvious that there were two main types of people who showed up - those who are like you describe (looking for attention, primarily concerned with aesthetics, many probably go to Burning Man), and everyone else. Relatively few people actually fall into the first category, but they grab your attention so it seems like it's more. I don't disparage those people, and they make lots of neat stuff, but I'm most interested in things with a technical, engineering bent over purely artistic things. The best things, of course, are a mix of both. This is of course the old steampunk debate - hot-gluing random gears on stuff is stupid, but if the gears move and do things (even if useless things) it's cool. Once you become acclimated to the crowd, it's easy to focus in on the things you're actually interested in, and you can ignore the guys standing around with non-functional prop weapons and the girls on stilts (if you want - I'm sure there are lots of people who are more interested in those things than the things I'm interested in). That all said, clothing style is 90% form over function in most cases, so no harm in being a little flamboyant when you go to an event like this - especially if you made your clothing (or aspects of it) yourself, as several of these people surely did. At least they're more interesting than the ill-fitting t-shirt and jeans/cargo shorts combo that 90% of the people there wear :) I got that sense when I went last year. But it quickly became obvious that there were two main types of people who showed up – those who are like you describe (looking for attention, primarily concerned with aesthetics, many probably go to Burning Man), and everyone else. Relatively few people actually fall into the first category, but they grab your attention so it seems like it’s more.

I don’t disparage those people, and they make lots of neat stuff, but I’m most interested in things with a technical, engineering bent over purely artistic things. The best things, of course, are a mix of both. This is of course the old steampunk debate – hot-gluing random gears on stuff is stupid, but if the gears move and do things (even if useless things) it’s cool.

Once you become acclimated to the crowd, it’s easy to focus in on the things you’re actually interested in, and you can ignore the guys standing around with non-functional prop weapons and the girls on stilts (if you want – I’m sure there are lots of people who are more interested in those things than the things I’m interested in).

That all said, clothing style is 90% form over function in most cases, so no harm in being a little flamboyant when you go to an event like this – especially if you made your clothing (or aspects of it) yourself, as several of these people surely did. At least they’re more interesting than the ill-fitting t-shirt and jeans/cargo shorts combo that 90% of the people there wear :)

]]> By: Aloisius http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428660 Aloisius Sun, 20 May 2012 18:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428660 I was at the Faire yesterday. It was my first time going and I think I must be jaded. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time especially at the interactive booths, but I couldn't shake this feeling that a lot of the attendees dressed up in their craziest clothes to get attention. From the guys standing around outside with their outsized prop guns waiting for someone to ask to take their picture with them to the girl on stilts, it just felt... dishonest. It could have just been the crowds and the lines. I imagine in a more intimate situation where there were you know, conversations between people, a lot of the stuff that turned me off would have just been a misunderstanding, but the conversations I did have don't make me hopeful. I was at the Faire yesterday. It was my first time going and I think I must be jaded.

Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time especially at the interactive booths, but I couldn’t shake this feeling that a lot of the attendees dressed up in their craziest clothes to get attention. From the guys standing around outside with their outsized prop guns waiting for someone to ask to take their picture with them to the girl on stilts, it just felt… dishonest.

It could have just been the crowds and the lines. I imagine in a more intimate situation where there were you know, conversations between people, a lot of the stuff that turned me off would have just been a misunderstanding, but the conversations I did have don’t make me hopeful.

]]> By: dculberson http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428641 dculberson Sun, 20 May 2012 17:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428641 Totally awesome, Thanks!  And you should let the Columbus Idea Foundry hold a Maker Faire this year, they had awesome Power Tool Drag Races last year and said they hoped to get a Maker Faire this year.  I can promise you it would be well attended!  And WE progressive midwesterners aren't lame enough to equate tattoos with "stains and bruises." (eye roll) Totally awesome, Thanks!  And you should let the Columbus Idea Foundry hold a Maker Faire this year, they had awesome Power Tool Drag Races last year and said they hoped to get a Maker Faire this year.  I can promise you it would be well attended!  And WE progressive midwesterners aren’t lame enough to equate tattoos with “stains and bruises.” (eye roll)

]]> By: bcsizemo http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428624 bcsizemo Sun, 20 May 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428624 Steampunk Star Trek insignia....*turns around and walks away*... Steampunk Star Trek insignia….*turns around and walks away*…

]]> By: Dan Hibiki http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428619 Dan Hibiki Sun, 20 May 2012 16:22:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428619 is that Garth's girlfriend on the bottom right? is that Garth’s girlfriend on the bottom right?

]]> By: einsteinatthemall http://boingboing.net/2012/05/19/cool-clothes-and-styles-of-mak.html#comment-1428555 einsteinatthemall Sun, 20 May 2012 07:09:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=161849#comment-1428555 If I knew there was going to be a fashion show, I would have tried harder to make it to the Faire - here's an idea, maybe next year have everyone arrive in their skivvies and the attendees could make each other clothing on the spot. It would put the whole complex concept of "making" to the test and it would be a great way to make friends - I'm pleased to see that aggressive tattoos are still the rage. I've been worried that aggressive tattoos had somehow lost their appeal in, say 1991 and were still out of fashion. Guess not! If I knew there was going to be a fashion show, I would have tried harder to make it to the Faire – here’s an idea, maybe next year have everyone arrive in their skivvies and the attendees could make each other clothing on the spot. It would put the whole complex concept of “making” to the test and it would be a great way to make friends – I’m pleased to see that aggressive tattoos are still the rage. I’ve been worried that aggressive tattoos had somehow lost their appeal in, say 1991 and were still out of fashion. Guess not!

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