Month: November 2006

Craft the Vote!

CRAFT friend Susan Beal has a list of resources about today’s election day here in the U.S. Susan was in San Francisco last weekend and caught The Quilts of Gee’s Bend and showcases Irene Williams’ Vote quilt from 1975. Susan also pointed out AIGA’s Polling Place Photo Project where you help document democracy by taking […]

The Curious Furniture of Ned Troide

The Curious Furniture of Ned Troide

The Jack Daniels Drinking Fountain is pretty nice and the AC/DC Shifter lets you mix different music tracks using tractor shifters… – “Ned Troide was singularly famous for scoring 72,999,975 points on the video game Defender, the highest score ever recorded, in a single session lasting 62 1/2 hours. What is less known is that […]

Real Men Knit DVD

O’Reilly Editor Brian Sawyer introduces us to the new DVD, “Real Men Knit”. In addition to a 32-minute documentary, the video also includes a 20-minute knitting lesson (a knitted cap) and two 20-minute interviews with “famous” and “legendary” male knitwear designers. Check out Brian’s intro to the piece and the accompanying video preview. If anyone […]

The Antimaterial Cannon

The Antimaterial Cannon

FiveseveN writes – “Since spudguns are so popular these days, I thought my little contraption would make a nice addition to the topic. It’s what we in the starch launching community call an advanced combustion cannon. Quite advanced. The URL points to the AMC’s thread on the main spud gunners’ forum, Spudfiles. There’s lots of […]

Balloon Aerial Photography

Yahoo is wrapping up their time capsule project and then archiving it all with the Smithsonian. Time Capsule Camp was a gathering of media makers and some cool workshops that I got to attend yesterday. While there, I tried sending up my kite aerial photography rig, but there wasn’t enough wind to get the rig […]