Failed But Not Dead Yet: A Taco Hat TV Update
Last night on the phone, my mom told me she felt bad that our Taco Hat TV Indiegogo campaign failed. I was all, “No, mom! Don’t feel bad.” And then I talked her ear off about how successful the campaign was even if we didn’t make our budget, and how I’m actually a little relieved it didn’t succeed as we’d initially laid it out. There are several reasons we didn’t stand a chance to raise $9,000 to make Taco Hat TV. A major one is that I had a helluva time approaching potential business sponsors. A big reason for this was that we didn’t have...
Read MoreWorld Maker Faire New York, in Photos
So I went to New York for the 2012 World Maker Faire. No big deal. Rather than try to use words to tell the tale, here are some photos. Ok, wait. I’m a words junkie, so here are just a few: Haley Pierson-Cox is my new favourite person, and I went from never having met her in person before to spending, like, a total of twelve hours in her company and never wanting to leave it. I had lunch with my agent, who is even more awesome than I already knew her to be from the internets and the telephone. (It’s a very cool thing to be able to say, to have had lunch with one’s agent, so...
Read MoreHelp make Taco Hat TV!
It’s a ridiculous name but a great idea. I’ve teamed up with filmmaker Ben Z Cooper to make a pilot season of a DIY web show for creative people and makers. Pretty much, it’s the DIY show I want to watch. It’s about skills, not projects. It’s about understanding how things work so we can make new stuff and fix or hack existing stuff. It’ll cost us about $9,000 to make the eight-episode pilot season here in Vancouver, and we’ve outlined the whole budget over on our Indiegogo page. It seems simultaneously like a ton of money and like not a lot of money....
Read MoreThe Simplest, Most Time-Consuming, Impressive Dessert EVER
A few months ago my friend Michal came to a party with the most eye-catching, impressive dessert in the history of not baking. She arrived with two half-litre mason jars with candy skewers sticking out all around. It was a feast of colour and confection! So yesterday, in advance of going to dinner at another friend’s place, I decided to take my lack of time for baking and my difficulty grabbing more than fifteen minutes alone during the day and apply them to ripping off Michal’s idea. It took all afternoon, with lots of interruptions. Without interruptions it’ll still take...
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