This Sunday is the You Bazaar! sale and workshop at the SF County Fair Building, featuring 30 vendors and a hands-on craft activities led by folks like Heidi Kenney, Missy Ballance, and Moxie. This will be a fun family friendly event to kick off the Plush You SF Show, opening Friday, November 7th 2008 and […]
How globes are made – via Kottke. The Chicago History Museum’s “Mapping Chicago: The Past and the Possible” exhibition also looks at Replogle Globes, Inc., which has been turning maps into globes in Chicago for over 77 years. Replogle is the world’s largest globe manufacturer. With their help, you can discover how globes are made.
A lot of folks who weren’t in the Austin, TX area last week for Maker Faire Austin 2008 wanted some of the deals we had at the Maker Shed Store, so – for the rest of the week we’re going to have a post each day with some of the specials. Here are 5 of […]
It’s made of meat, all of it… @ The Daneyal Mahmood Gallery…. Meat After Meat Joy brings together the work of contemporary artists who use meat in their work (raw meat, the concept of meat, its symbolism and viscera) in order to investigate the paradoxical relationship meat has to the body. Meat combines flesh, skin, […]
Ahh another classic is reborn. Check out this cool project where you can make the classic “Head in a Crystal Ball”. Of course not only does it move it also talks and floats as well. Here is a description from the original Disney concept: “Resting inside the crystal ball is the ghoulish disembodied head of […]
In response to International Caps Lock Day last week, Sean Ragan made this caps lock trainer key: DOES SOMEONE YOU KNOW HAVE A SHOUTING PROBLEM? IF SO THEN THIS HANDY TRAINER KEY MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT. A standard 101-pattern caps lock key has had its lettering removed by wiping with a paper towel soaked in […]
Molly Dash and her boyfriend Bryan came up with this packing peanut chandelier and were generous enough to share the instructions at Design Sponge. Related Banana Box Chandelier Milk Jug Chandelier Spoon Chandelier
