Here’s a good follow up to our last post about consumption (Artist Chris Jordan) – The NY Times on where cell phones go when they die… Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on […]
Chris Jordan’s incredible gallery of consumption culture (this skeleton is made from 200,000 packs of cigarettes) artist’s statment – This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans […]
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Pac-Man Shoes – Link. Cal Lane’s Steel Lace – Link. Happy Star iPod Cozy – Link. Crochet Elvis Doll Pattern – Link. HOW TO – Make Pixel-Art Cookies – Link.
A different kind of wall clock. Autodesk Labs Sun Dial for a Green Clock – [via] Link
Pleodream writes – Since the previous two videos have proven to be so popular we have decided to make a series. Starting with this weekend’s episode “Bonez and his Thorocotomy”, we will shoot a weekly episode and detail each piece of the Pleo dinosaur. So far we have discovered 1 of Pleo’s 6 processors. I […]
A recent Arduino -vs- Basic Stamp discussion over on the DIY Drones site really caught my eye. Jordi makes a nice argument for the Arduino, showing off the current state of his Arducopter, which you can see in the video above. Built using a low cost electric heli, an Arduino board, and the guts from […]
MissAlison.com has long been home to amazingly cool hand-stitched vinyl accessories, but now the site is sporting a great new look and an expanded selection. The new design went live this weekend, and to celebrate Alison will be offering 10% off all orders placed in January–simply enter the coupon code awesome08 at checkout. Link.
