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Forbes Video: High-Tech Luxury Fashion

diana — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:44:15 +0000

Back in November, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Sarah Austin for Forbes Video on High-Tech Luxury Fashion. Here I am waiting to get mic’ed up before the shoot. I changed my dress to an electronic one shortly before we started. This is one of the first interviews where I have expressed a strong viewpoint, so I was afraid to see how I would be edited. But I am happy with the result, and it was great working with the Forbes team.

Fairytale Fashion on Radar TV

diana — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:57:10 +0000

Radar made a great video of the Fairytale Fashion project. They captured some really beautiful shots and showed some of the work behind the collection.

It’s always crazy behind the scenes. We filmed this whole video in one day at three different locations! There was a video crew of about 8 folks, 2 photographers, a photo assistant, 3 models, hair, make-up, and my assistant for the day Luther Cherry.

This is the first time my home studio has ever been featured. At the time of filming, I was between spaces and had moved all of my things out of Eyebeam just days before. Now I use my home studio for work in the evenings and on the weekends.

The shoot was incredibly long, but all of our hard work paid off and I am happy with how the video turned out. I’ve still never had a shoot that was a tiring my Project Runway days.

Photos some rights reserved by WBPLabs, taken by: Lindsey Sundboom

Fairytale Fashion on ABC News

diana — Wed, 19 May 2010 20:34:16 +0000

In April the Fairytale Fashion Show made it on ABC News. You can view the clip here.

On PBS SciGirls High Tech Fashion

diana — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:25:14 +0000

Last fall, I had a lot of fun being a mentor for an episode of PBS SciGirls which aired last week. I worked with 11 year old SciGirls Ariella, Hallie, and Sophia to create a super hero princess dress for the Fairytale Fashion launch party. Watch the Episode here.

The girls designed the super hero prince dress and I showed them how to make it. The dress had an EL wire cape controlled by an accelerometer so that the cape lit up in reaction to motion. And the skirt inflated to create a billowing cloud effect which every flying superhero princess needs.

The girls programmed an Arduino microcontroller to make conductive thread embroidered LEDs sparkle on lace. The girls really liked sparkly things. When I was showing them how to program the Arduino to make the LEDs sparkle, they practically pushed me out of the way so that they could program the sparkles themselves. I didn’t even finish explaining how to write the program. The girls just took over.

In between takes, Ariella, Hallie, and Sophia made up a song and dance for everything, the ironing dance, the LED song. It would be interesting to see little girls take over the electronics world with sparkle programs and soldering songs.

The Twin Cities Public Television production crew was one of the nicest I’d ever worked with. The whole crew was really chipper and upbeat which made them great for working with the girls. And I enjoyed drinking the juice boxes that were always on set. Thank you model Jen Kresge, make-up artist Santiago Sibert, and big thanks to Collab for letting us use their space.

MotherBoard.TV Interview

diana — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:10:44 +0000

I had a nice interview with MotherBoard.TV. Claire & gang were very nice.

Good Day New York

diana — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:40:20 +0000

This morning Hillary Mason and I were on Good Day New York spreading the good word about hackers. FoxNY shows that we are helpful hackers, not harmful hackers

Excited to be on CNN

diana — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:58:39 +0000

Threadbanger: How to Sew with Electronics

diana — Fri, 08 May 2009 22:20:49 +0000

Today I am on ThreadBanger showing how to hand sew with conductive thread and LEDs to make the Robot and Friend embroidery from my book Fashion Geek.

Download the Robot and Friend pattern from ThreadBanger.

NPR: NYC Resistor Interview

diana — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:13:08 +0000

My hacker group, NYC Resistor was interviewed on NPR’s the TakeAway this morning. It was fun having them stop by. I talked with them a bit about ham radio in their TakeAway video below.

Photo Courtesy of Bre Pettis

Popular Science: A Fashion Geek Release Party

diana — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:17:19 +0000

Today, PopSci.com features photos from the release party for my book, Fashion Geek. Stuart Fox says, “Is that a circuit in your pocket, or are you just really into my conductive threads?”