Month: September 2006

Letterpress Machine

By Arwen O’Reilly We just got this great letterpress from the folks over at the LoBot Gallery in West Oakland. They were trying to clear out some space in their warehouse, and of course we just love cluttering ours up! We’re picking up the press itself tomorrow, but brought the type cabinet back with us […]

Crafty Komaneko

My Little Mochi has me addicted now to the little stop animation videos of Komaneko (means frame-taking cat) and her adventures in making her little plush and filming it. This movie won the 2003 Japan Media Arts Award for short form animation. This photo is now my desktop wallpaper. Link.

PowerBook Portait

PowerBook Portait

Mac OS X Hints uncovers a cool feature in Tiger that allows you to turn your landscape display into a portrait layout: If you go into the Displays preference panel, you will see a new drop down called “Rotate.” This will rotate the image on your display a number of diffrent ways: 90, 180, or […]

iPod sleeping bag

From the MAKE photo pool, crafty Lauren was inspired by this iPod shuffle cozy with instructions and decided her iPod needed a little quilted sleeping bag. The cozy quilt is made from an old fabric belt. From Lauren,”It only took me 20 minutes to make, and was almost like a little patchwork quilt where I […]