Embroidered Italian Bike Parts
CRAFT contributor Brookelynn Morris sent in her friend Susie Martinez’s amazing embroidery of Italian Capagnolo bike parts she made for her boyfriend, also in the Craft: Flickr Pool. Bellissima!
Month: December 2008
Luray’s cave-strument
Said to be the world’s largest instrument – the Luray Caverns’ Great Stalacpipe Organ plays the earth itself! – Located deep in the Luray Caverns in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the worlds largest musical instrument. Stalactites covering 3 1/2 acres of the surrounding caverns produce tones of symphonic quality when electronically […]
Oakland’s NIMBY Space Needs Help
NIMBY, a DIY space for artists and makers in West Oakland is re-locating and needs help to defray moving expenses and the cost of a security deposit. They are trying to raise $17,000 by December 15. Spaces like NIMBY are so important to creating the distinctive local culture in the Bay Area and other cities. […]
Embroidered Platters From Artist Lynette Andreasen
I am in awe of the work by Lynette Andreasen, a graduate metal arts student at Arizona State University. Embroidery is my favorite craft, and seeing it worked into metal like this leaves me breathless. She shares more of her work on her blog and through Flickr, and one of my other favorite pieces is […]
Human typewriter project
Mrs. Eves writes- A friend of mine recently ran this awesome type project.When each person’s assigned letter was hit, they had torun, jump and stamp their inked up letter onto a 20mream of paper. I was there to take some pix. The best!
Letterpress process in pictures
Interrobang Letterpress posted some lovely and illuminating photos of their letterpress printing process to the MAKE Flickr pool. I was trained as a printing and ran a shop for years (in the late ’70s). Trained in offset lithography, and ever-the-futurist, I turned my nose up at quaint tech like letterpress. Oh how times and aesthetics […]
Making a BlinkM reindeer ornament
I uploaded a red and green blinking pattern to my BlinkM programmable LED, hooked it up to some AA batteries, and shoved it up the reindeer’s nose. (Well, technically into the back of his head.) My wife saw it hanging on the tree and said it looked more demonic than cute. Maybe that’s because of […]
