{"id":2403,"date":"2014-09-16T09:29:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2014-09-16T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:29:41","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e54-the-freedom-to-be-foolish-with-mark-frauenfelder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E54: The Freedom to Be Foolish with Mark Frauenfelder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2404\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frauenfelder.jpg\" alt=\"Frauenfelder\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frauenfelder.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Frauenfelder-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in Studio City with Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the popular zine-turned-blog <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\">Boing Boing<\/a>, founding co-editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\"><em>Make\u00a0<\/em>magazine<\/a>, and author of\u00a0<em>Maker Dad:\u00a0Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects<\/em>. They discuss whether he still thinks about <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/dingbats.html\">Los Angeles dingbat apartments<\/a>, and the extent to which their owners have customized them today; all barriers falling for the modern maker except for the one asking who&#8217;s interested; how his daughters&#8217; fascination with\u00a0card tricks preceded their interest in making things; what kind of project kids can complete under their own steam; Los Angeles as a place for makers, the current state of its maker spaces, and the making heritage offered by its historical hot-rod culture as described in Tom Wolfe&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby<\/em>; his history with this city, which goes back to 1987, albeit one interrupted by periods in Japan, on a South Pacific island, and elsewhere; the semi-agricultural life- and making style Los Angeles affords him; how growing your own food allows you to think more clearly about food, and making your own media allows you to think more clearly about media; how his grasp of media improved as he engaged in every stage of the D.I.Y. publishing revolution; learning through mistakes, as opposed to school&#8217;s pressure not to make mistakes in the first place; the debilitating world of the &#8220;smart kid&#8221;; the &#8220;freedom to be foolish&#8221; offered in Los Angeles; the dueling temptations of broadminded generalism and singleminded obsession; his role in the cyberpunk culture of the 80s and 90s, and to what extent we live in the utopian and\/or dystopian future it envisioned today; his hope for an increasingly tech-focused San Francisco to continue exporting progressive ideas; the rise of meta-making, and the promise of large-scale decentralized making of solving some of &#8220;the world&#8217;s problems&#8221;; how he deals with the firehose of amazing stuff to feature on Boing Boing and in\u00a0<em>Make<\/em>; and what his daughters have taught him about making while he&#8217;s taught them about making.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download the interview\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E54_Mark_Frauenfelder.output.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0or on\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #555555;\" href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in Studio City with Mark Frauenfelder, founder of the popular zine-turned-blog Boing Boing, founding co-editor of\u00a0Make\u00a0magazine, and author of\u00a0Maker Dad:\u00a0Lunch Box Guitars, Antigravity Jars, and 22 Other Incredibly Cool Father-Daughter DIY Projects. 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