Month: May 2008

Handmade Nation May Raffle

Handmade Nation is now offering tickets for their May Raffle, which included the following craft-happy treats: • Cancer Pants Journal with cancerpants Super funtime kit! from If’n Books + Marks! • Chocolate and pink Polka Dot Clutch from Poise.cc • Zeichen Press CD Mixpak • Honeydoux “In The Navy” Earrings with vintage blue glass anchor […]

Vote for my boot!

Vote for my boot!

Keeping with the CRAFT shoe theme — Dr Martin’s has a “design your own boot” contest, so I made a boot I always wanted, one with a circuit board on it, specifically one with the Wave Bubble open source RF jammer – vote it up if you’d like to see this become a real boot […]

Botanical communications kit

Botanical communications kit

You’ve read about it – now you too can follow your own pet vegetation on twitter! – The Botanicalls Twitter kit includes all the hardware you need to create a networked communication system for your plant. A moisture sensor placed into the soil will send information to simple electronic detection circuitry you solder together yourself. […]

Thomas Doyle’s Miniatures

Gareth @ MAKE writes: Artist Thomas Doyle makes fascinating art, tells compelling stories, with model train miniatures and scenery. I’ve always been strangely attracted to these miniature components and wondered why more people don’t make art, jewelry, dioramas, etc. with them.

Young Blood Gallery Grand Re-Opening

Congratulations to Atlanta’s Young Blood Gallery & Boutique on their grand re-opening! The shop had recently been forced to relocate, and the new space is reportedly bigger and better than ever. See for yourself on May 10 during their grand re-opening, complete with DJ and art show with Jessica Gonacha and Valerie Taylor. Grand Re-Opening […]

Tetris theme on bottles

This trio performs the Tetris theme on bottles of various sizes and water levels. They give you some clues to how they made it, one being the clicking metronome in the background and sped up effect; they must have performed it much slower then sped it up. My lips hurt just looking at it, though. […]