I can’t imagine how much time it took Matt Bucy to cut up ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and reassemble every word of dialog into alphabetical order. The resulting movie is called ‘Of Oz the Wizard.’ Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
My friend Josh Glenn compiles terrific lists of genre novels from the mid-20th century. His latest is a list of the ten best adventure novels of 1966. Josh also includes the cover art of early editions of the books, which are always much better than the art on newer editions. I want to read every book in this list! Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
I co-founded ‘bOING bOING’ magazine and the ‘Boing Boing Blog’ and was an editor at ‘Wired’ from 1993-1998. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
John Edgar Park introduced me to the gentle art of recreational lock-picking. It’s fun and potentially useful to know how to tickle tumblers in the right way to open door locks and padlocks. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
I’m very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
My idea of a traditional holiday – the right way to do it – goes back to the days when gift-giving meant sharing homemade things: hand-knit sweaters, carved wooden toys, smoked meats and the like. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
We’re trained in school to equate mistakes with bad grades – something to be avoided at all costs. The alpha makers were somehow able to dodge that. They think that mistakes are just part of the creative process and maybe even the best way to learn. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
In this beginner-friendly book, called ‘Learn to Program with Minecraft,’ you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called ‘The Mad Professor’. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
The maker movement is about people who want to gain more control of the human design world that they interact with every day. Instead of accepting off-the-shelf solutions from institutions and corporations, makers would like to make, modify, and repair their own tools, clothing, food, toys, furniture, and other physical objects. Mark Frauenfelder Read Quote
