This guy is great. What makes him especially noteworthy for me is his orderly-ness. As I listened to the podcast, I couldn'nt get a good enough picture in my head of his garage i.e. was it messy, a pile of junk scattered everywhere etc. The video on your website let me see that.(I like that new added feature to your website)

Some people like Mr. Jalopy are seen as eccentric junk collecters, with junk strewn about their garages everywhere. I bet Mr. Jalopy knows where every screw and nut and bolt he needs is. That's what makes him more of a junk genius, than a frugal throwback from the Great Depression.

Kurt: many thanks for this interview. You are by now aware that you've awakened a geek giant across the globe. I fully claim my part of the borg but with more run-of-the-mill geek joy than than any sensitivity.

Mr.Jalopy, you hit the core of it multiple times... "I'm not a luddite. I love technology... but there is a beautiful clarity to old machines." "If you can't open it you don't own it."

I take pictures with a 1950 Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera - not for nostalgia, but for pictures. Our technology advances most often not because we've exhausted a given utility, but rather because we want something new. You are proving that infinity lies between the supposed constraining parameters of "the old" - just as between two points on a number line.

Much peace
if you get a moment:

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2007/03/09

http://dodgeburn.blogspot.com/2008/12/photographer-interview-eric-j-henderson.html

I'd love to do a riff on my Kodak Brownie Hawkeye.

Greetings to you.I enjoyed the video.His creativity has to be apperciated.Today's "Children" has to see this kind of videos.Good work.
Regds G.K.Agri.

I'm really glad you did this story, but to call this guy a Hero of a movement simple doesn't hold water. There are lots of real "makers" out there. There is a huge community of them in England and here in the states the proffesionals I know number about 100. It's what I've been doing for 50 years, the last thirty professionallay, because it was so much in demand. You can get a taste with the video's on my site just to get started. www.think3-d.com