About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
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FabLab Stories
Two weeks ago I went to the FabLab in Utrecht and recorded stories by the people working there during that day.
I collected six stories in total, enough to showcase stuff in the documentary. You can watch them all on the FabLabChannel @ 23video. Note that only one of them is in English, the rest in Dutch without subtitles (will follow!).
The one below is my favorite. It’s the story from a guy that came into the Lab for the very first time. He’s a college teacher (arts) and therefore works almost all the time when the Lab is open. Now, it was a school holiday and he arranged something for the kids so he could come here. He draws beautiful patterns by hand and this time he scanned the pattern into Corel Draw and printed it in plywood.
It came out almost perfect. How’s that for a first time visit!
(the video below is in Dutch and doesn’t have subtitles, yet)
FabLab Stories: drawing patterns (Dutch) from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.