CONTRIBUTORS
Alex Andon’s (Jellyfish Tank) fascination
with marine animals was sparked on a
sail through the British Virgin Islands
while free-diving underwater tunnels in
coral reefs. He went on to work for the
Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece,
camping on beaches in Crete to protect
nests and hatchlings. Alex accumulated extensive experience in building
aquariums for his own research projects
at Duke and the University of Delaware.
He founded Jellyfish Art on a platform
of cutting-edge jellyfish husbandry
techniques that have been developed
over the past decade. Alex has a B.S.
from Duke in biology and environmental
science.
As a kid, Peter Tabur (Limelight) had
just about every construction set there
was, and loved taking broken things
apart to figure out how they worked.
His love of making, fixing, and building
is unabated, so it should come as no
surprise that he went to engineering
school. He lives in Augusta, Mich., with
his wife, Teri, and foundling beagle,
George. Peter likes to make pizza and
furniture and loves his 1950s vintage
Rockwell radial arm saw — “a massive
cast-iron beauty” he fully restored. He’s
currently between jobs and is taking
advantage of his ample free time to
work on his long list of projects.
Marek Michalowski (Spazzi: A
Solenoid-Powered Dancebot) has
been excited by robots and airplanes
since childhood, and things haven’t
changed much. Together with Hideki
Kozima, designer of the robot Keepon,
Michalowski co-founded BeatBots
LLC in 2007. He’s enthusiastic about
the growth of desktop fabrication and
community hackerspaces, and about
their implications for the future of toys,
art, and design. In his spare time, he
enjoys using his private pilot, scuba, and
motorcycle licenses (though never at
the same time). Michalowski was born
in Poland, grew up in New York, and
currently lives in San Francisco.
Garry McLeod (Marek Michalowski)
Gregory Hayes (MAKE photo intern)
is a California photographer, writer,
puppeteer, and handyman, among
other things; it’s his hope that this rare
combination of skills will keep him high
on the invite list for off-Earth colonization efforts. In the meantime, he enjoys
canoeing, tinkering, cooking, and
eating. He lives on the Russian River,
throws sticks for his two wonderful
dogs (“this never, ever gets old”), likes
making tools on the fly (“particularly if
I can reuse parts of other projects for
new purposes”), and really, really loves
artichokes.
If Colin Way (Teaching Old Toys New
Tricks photography) were to describe
what he strives for in images, it might
sound like this: illustrative and immediate, layered and detailed. Colin has been
fortunate to work with a varied client
list, including Chatelaine, Dell, WestJet,
Canadian Business Magazine, and
Fashion. One of the best things about
his job is the interesting people he
meets along the way (including meeting
DJ Sures for this issue). To see more
of his work, visit colinway.com.
Kathryn Rathke (MAKE author
portraits) is “a practical Wisconsin girl”
living in Seattle with her husband and
her “gargoyle-faced dog,” Bunny. Her
portraits have appeared on the covers
of magazines, been projected onto
screens, turned into embroidery, and
scaled down to fit onto cupcakes. She
“treasures wit and absurdity,” took up
competitive badminton a year ago, and
just had her first Friend Request from
one of her subjects. She’s learning Flash
animation so she can teach her line
portraits to blink. kathrynrathke.com
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