Contributors

Ten years ago, Mister Jalopy (World's Biggest MP3 Player and Own Your Own) decided to

be handy. “People are not born craftsmen; they just have the courage to screw things up,” he says. “Embrace your inner amateur and try everything. There will always be an expert to

take your money and fix the mistakes.” Mister Jalopy is a mediocre welder, a fair shade-tree mechanic, a clumsy designer, and has never touched a piece of wood that he hasn’t ruined.

However, he still gets a lot done at hooptyrides.com.

A new kind of activist, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen (Crafter’s Manifesto) started her blog, hobbyprincess.com, because she “thought girls should get more active in defining where

society and technology are going.” The Helsinki native is also building a free product code system and an open database for products, ThingLinks, while working toward a Ph. D. in the social

sciences. In her spare time, she likes to “scavenge second-hand shops for wonderful things, sing, and ride a green bicycle.” Note to Dean Kamen: She thinks you should invent a flying Segway.

William Lidwell (MakeShift) is an artist, author, and entrepreneur. For fun, he can be found

practicing martial arts, playing ping-pong, or working on esoteric problems over pizza and beer with friends. For work, he splits his time between writing, consulting, and working on

bizarre design projects at the Stuff Creators Design Studio. William is author of the book Universal Principles of Design.

Both motivated and broke, Dustin Amory Hostetler (Cigar Box Guitar and Retrocomputing illustrations) loves club soda, the color yellow, cats and dogs equally, and any tree with a tree

house. A prolific illustrator, this Toledo, Ohio, native just started a design studio with his wife ( studiosansnom.com) and is the publisher of the annual art magazine Faesthetic. He also

admits to holding grudges, so be careful about criticizing club soda in his presence.

Ed Vogel (Cigar Box Guitar) describes himself as “an aging punk who likes musical theater” and makes one-string pizza box guitars with kids at leonardosbasement.org (“fill the belly and then fill the mind!”). He once bet he could make a transistor using late 19th century

materials and built a device out of a photoconductive cell, a neon glow bulb, and a resistor. He’s now working on a solar-powered adsorption ice machine and can’t decide if he likes

chocolate cake or broccoli more.

His mom bought him his first 110 camera when he was 6, and Topher Lucas (cover photo)

has been shooting ever since. A photographer who describes his job as being “some sort of license to meet completely random strangers,” he’s currently working on a project docu-

menting the characters of the Lower Haight, his neighbors in San Francisco, Calif., and is going to Vietnam for a shoot early next year. He also enjoys yoga, the ocean, and riding his motorcycle, but does not like chocolate.

Contributing Writers:

Tim Anderson, Tom Anderson, Wendell Anderson, Thomas Arey N2EI, David Battino, Sabastian Boaz, Joost Bonsen, Gareth Branwyn, Rob Bullington, Cory Doctorow, Daniel East, Jeffrey Goldsmith, Saul Griffith, Jimmy Guterman, Alex Handy, Amy Horton, Andy Ihnatko, Mister Jalopy, Daniel Joliffe, Peter Kirn, William Lidwell, Steve Lodefink, Dave Mabe, Merlin Mann, Bob Miller, John Murphy, Ulla-Maaria Mutanen, Marc H. Nathan, Charles Neveu, Johnathan Nightingale, Danny O’Brien, Will O’Brien, Meara O’Reilly, Ross Orr, Chris O’Shea, Tom Owad, Bob Parks, David Pescovitz, Dave Prochnow, Claude Reith, Matthew Russell, Fred Sandsmark, Bob Scott, Sparkle Labs, Bruce Sterling, Bruce Stewart, Jasmina Tesanovic, Adam Thornton, Cy Tymony, Pacho Velez, Ed Vogel, Patrick Webb, Cristiana Yambo, Warren Young

Contributing Artists: Oona Albertson, Bit Shifter, Nick Dragotta, Dustin Amory Hostetler, Timmy Kucynda, Andre LaMothe, Gerry Manacsa, Jenny Pfeiffer, Damien Scogin, Derrick Story, Carla Sinclair, Mark Watkinson, Robert Ullman