Beth Goza – Nerd Craft: A Field Guide
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Beth describes herself as a gadget loving, game playing, movie junkie who reads, knits, and spends far too much time on the Internet. Emerging from the explosion of next-gen DIY movements, hand crafting revivals, and celebrating all thing geek comes a unique set of makers; the nerd crafter. Nothing is off-limits from the imagination and ingenuity of these crafters, who blend their passion for sci-fi, gaming, technology and all things geeky with their love of paints, fabrics, fibers and all things crafty.
Goza presented a Field Guide to the various families, genus and species of Nerd Craft and shows how sites like craftzine; events like the Renegrade Craft Fair, and communities like Ravelry connect and galvanize crafters who share a passion for fibery-arty-geeky goodness.
Her presentation was not only enlightening, it was also hilarious. The best part had to be all the men in the room silently groaning at the beginning, thinking they would die of boredom during a talk about things like knitting. However, Beth presented her discussion so well that she soon had the full attention of everyone in the room – men included – and much laughter rang loudly during the entire time she was on stage.
I still want some of those little Darth Vader things she made!
- Radio Craft: The Radio Trillion-Tone Organ, Art Poster
- Wonka Gingerbread Cottage Candy Kit with Runts, Nerds, Sweetarts and Bottlecaps for trim
- Teen Titans Series 1 Mini Figure
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nerdcraft » Blog Archive » inaugural post
January 13th, 2010
at 10:05pm
[...] the inspiration for nerdcraft and the year of making came from the many talented folks i profiled in my talk last summer at Gnomedex 9. it’s been a long time coming in getting this site up and running; but i’ve finally gotten a healthy dose of projects under my belt and new ones started to merit a blog. to see the talk check out the video below or read the recap here. [...]