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mejk is a swedishification of the english “make” , as in ‘maker culture’, as in what makers do and what goes on in hackerspaces, fablabs, studios, garages, backyards and other sites of production.
mejk.me is both an attempt to bring ideas circulating around the world about ‘making’ into the swedish mindset as well as sending them out again after being run through the theoretical and practical filter that the swedish mejking scene and net-based philosophical thinking make up.
What the concept mejk will end up meaning is not clear at this point. We will make an effort to broaden the themes and practices it can incorporate.
Suggestions are always welcome of how mejk could develop. We start small and iterate often! Also feel free to write for mejk. Just contact us at h e j [ at ] m e j k . m e or @mejkme on twitter
The mejk.me editors are: >>> Geraldine and Magnus <<< 
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Her name is Sofia, she is from Brazil and she like ice cream a lot. She love it so much that she wanted to make her own ice cream, so her mom got her a machine to make as much ice cream she wants.
Obviously when i was Sofia’s age, toys weren’t as sophisticated as now so i thought the machine made really cool fake ice cream and also i realized how early, we all start to demand to copy what we like…The only problem with this ice cream machine is that only makes copies of ice cream related things. The market obviously is not designed to show kids that with the right toy, you can potentially copy more than ice cream.
i’m afraid Mejk’s MakerBot is cooler than the ice cream machine of Sofia.
“Copying is an act of repetition, and contains in it the possibility of repeating that repetition unto infinity. If the world we live in today is obsessed with copying and copies, it is because that world is one which is based on the amazing realization that we (who are “more than one”) can make “more than one” of just about every- thing, and, more darkly, that we are interested only in things that we can make, buy, or sell “more than one” of.”
Im reading the new book of Marcus Boon “In Praise of Copying”, a refreshing work that leave all the legal and outdated discussion about intellectual property aside, to focus on the history of the infinite and unstoppable act of copying… more than ice cream!
You can take your copy of the book, here
