Evan and Katelyn Making a Dog-Sized Furby Robot (and taking it on a walk)

*This YouTube stunt is getting pretty close to a tech-art intervention, and wouldn’t seem out-of-place at Transmediale or Ars Electronica. *Some technical details on the project from a YouTube collaborator.

Subsonica — Mattino di Luce

*AI video FX galore!

Processing Foundation 2024 Fellowship Program

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Woodworking workshops

*You will notice that these are “jaw-dropping” wood-working spaces. In social media things need to be “jaw-dropping” for the sake of the viral appeal. Otherwise they’d simply be rationally organized, efficient places to work with wood. https://woodandshop.com/workshops/

Woodworking studio

*This quirky, hands-on assembly space doesn’t look very “Makertainment,” but he gives it away when he refers to one wall of his garage shop as “the backdrop.” *His explanation of the presence of just one plug-in machine tool in his studio, that’s also quite interesting.

Tools to throw away

*I’m quite liking this Makertainment sub-genre of “tools that are no good.”

Xyla Foxlin being particularly Xyla Foxlin

*As a Makertainer, Xyla Foxlin has had repeated, crippling problems with her studios, but the Xyla Foxlin personality-cult is flourishing in this YouTube episode as she lounges in her personal chair in her sunbathing gear.