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Hi all, We launched The Making Of… on KQED on Tuesday and the calls and notes and tweets and videos have been pouring in. This email caught our eye and we thought it might catch yours as well: kimchi is at least 4000 years old — I am proposing the making of kimchi by sunhui … more…
From our intern, Nora Kroopf: Some people look at the Bay Bridge and see a way to get to Berkeley. Some people look at the Bay Bridge and see a canvas, an art project, an installation, like Ben Davis, founder of Words, Pictures, Ideas, a creative marketing agency passionate about social and civic projects. Ben … more…
Story #1: The Call. Today, The Kitchen Sisters & KQED launch The Making Of… what people make in the Bay Area and why. The Making Of… is a community documentary project, that chronicles the art, creativity and invention going on in backyards, workplaces, cultural hot spots and public spaces throughout one of the most diverse … more…
From our intern, Lauren Benichou: At the beginning of November, thousands of folks across the Bay Area will celebrate El Día de Los Muertos by building altars ornamented with marigolds, pictures of lost loved ones, pan dulce and… sugar skulls. With November fast approaching, a story on the making of sugar skulls seems timely. Before … more…
When you walk by the Berkeley Art Museum, your eye is immediately drawn to the word, “Snitch” spray painted in huge letters on the museum’s Bancroft side and just like that you are swept into the world of Barry McGee. His current midcareer exhibit at BAM/PFA is open until December 9th and gives us a … more…
From our friend and former intern, Patty Fung: My grandmother has been making Jung, or Chinese Tamales, in her home in San Francisco’s Sunset District for a long time. It was a recipe passed down by her husband’s mother and I had a chance to learn all about her way of preparing Jung while I … more…
I’m Nora Kroopf and I just moved to San Francisco this week. I graduated from Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles and am now interning with The Kitchen Sisters working on their new project “The Making Of…” I’m new to this city and have been looking for what people are making in the Bay Area … more…
We were recently turned on to the Mollusk Surf Shop in San Francisco. It’s part surf shop, part art gallery. We missed the Jay Nelson exhibit that closed this weekend, but check out the video above of a custom treehouse and camper boat (aka “surf vehicle”) that he built. And while you’re at it check … more…
We received a call from Dr. Elliot Gann who is the co-founder of Today’s Future Sound, a non-profit that teaches beat making classes and workshops in schools and camps throughout the Bay Area. Here’s his message: And watch the video above to see the class in action. More beats from students can be heard at … more…
We’ve heard stories about the conductor of the San Francisco Symphony who is even happier making curry than he is making music; about what’s being made by the Death Row Knitters at San Quentin; about the Silicon Valley industrial designer who is revolutionizing the making of prosthetic limbs; about immigrant stone masons from Oaxaca; rappers … more…
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