Make Magazine sponsored the 2nd annual Maker Faire May 19th-20th at the San Mateo Fairgrounds (directly adjacent to the soon-to-be-defunct Bay Meadows; Hillsdale Caltrain station). I made it down Saturday afternoon and snapped a few shots. I was painfully underwhelmed for the most part, honestly, although perhaps I don't have much of an appreciation for the finer points of "making". Many of the creations seemed to be someone taping old computer parts onto something in order to make it "computery". Other things, like fire sculptures, held my attention for a minute or so, but pyromaniac that I am (or is that pyrophile?) there wasn't enough of that to keep me busy for more than a couple of hours.
Some of the exhibits dealt with fabrication, but as I'm not much of a fabricator, I probably didn't appreciate those properly. The Power Tool Drag Races were holding "heats" sort of. My problem with that and a few of the other events/exhibits was that they seemed to have real barkers with microphones standing in front of them. Basically guys whose purpose was to babble constantly and pointlessly. Maybe I was just getting too much vitamin D from all the sun, but they really, really annoyed me.
I happened to be there at the time Uke-y Stardust and the Spiders from Mars was playing, but having seen the show before I continued wandering, only catching a few songs, such as "Starman" rendered on the kazoo.
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