Maker Faire Bay Area 2012

Ask a Maker Master

A panel of Makers who have become masters of their craft will answer all the questions you ever had.
Come test their knowledge and get the next best thing to figuring it out yourself! Having someone tell you!

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About the Maker(s)

Jon Sarriugarte

Jon Sarriugarte

Big Boss Man - Form & Reform

Born and raised in Boise, Idaho, Jon made the trip out to California to create the metal furniture company Form & Reform in 1987. He has studied and worked as a blacksmith/ fabricator for over 25 years; pouring his creativity into exceling at his work and having plain old fun. He has been featured on the Discovery Channel with the Power Tool Drag Races and the History Channel with the vortex cannon he worked on with Survival Research Laboratories. He now heads his own art collective; The Empire of Dirt. This Oilpunk group built a stage show looking as if it was from a turn of the century oil town, The Giant Iron Snail Art Car The Golden Mean ,The Electrobite, (a personal transportation fossil), the Zepelini (a personnel flying machine); and in 2011 and 2012 Burning Man honored Jon and company with a grant to build the Serpent Twins. Jon is married to Kyrsten Mate, a feature film sound designer who has combined pattern making with metal fabrication to help create their pieces. She also provides much of the push to keep their pieces whimsical and unique and enjoys creating the "backstory" behind every sculpture.

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Jeffrey McGrew + Jillian Northrup

Jeffrey McGrew + Jillian Northrup

- Because We Can

Jillian comes from many years in professional design and photography industry working mostly in retail, publishing, and entertainment. Jeffrey's background is Architecture and is a CA licensed Architect. For the last five years they have run the design-build studio, Because We Can. As an owner of this small business, they has been immersed in furniture and interior design from small decorative pieces to large and complex interior spaces and full buildings for clients like Wikimedia, Stanford, The Long Now and countless residential projects. From initial concepts to the physical building, Because We Can runs design jobs with focus on great communication internally and with the client. Specializing in bespoke building design, amazing interiors and fantastical furniture, they try to make eveything they touch amazing.

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Alexis Berger

Alexis Berger is an industrial design Graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has taught glass flameworking at The Crucible in Oakland and at Autobody Fine Art in Alemeda. She makes beautifully crafted, translucent jewelry and vessels with finishes reminiscent of Art Nouveau and the Belle Epoch. Alexis Berger's craftsmanship is of the highest standards and comes to form pieces imbued with her unique, creative vision.

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Alan Rorie

Almost Scientific

Dr. Alan Rorie is a designer, artist and scientist whose work focuses on the intersection between science, art and education. He founded Almost Scientific, a science and art collaborative, after someone told him his method of working was "very scientific." "I know how science works," he replied. "This isn't scientific - it's almost scientific." Since then, Almost Scientific has educated scientists about art and artists about science, helping to bring forth such works as gigantic interactive treehouses, large sets of functional brass apertures, fully functional, steam-powered time machines, alien observation tanks housing 9000-volt robotic neurons, and plasma powered rocket ships. Alan’s individual and collaborative works have been shown at venues as diverse as The Sonoma County Museum, The Exploratorium, Maker Faire, Coachella Music Festival, the Crucible&'s Fire Arts Festival, The Science Gallery's Lightwave Event, the Edwardian Ball and Burning Man. His art has been featured in the science journal Nature, the technology and culture publication Wired, and a wide array of blogs and web-pages. And, his scientific work has been published in Science, PLoS and The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.

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