Earlier this week, I finished making a gift for my daughter’s second grade teacher. By the time I was done, it was all I could do to stuff it in a gift bag and toss in some tissue paper. So when I saw what a friend of mine did to wrap her kids’ teacher gifts […]
This year we’re pleased to have the first ever Kite aerial photography gift guide (KAP) on the web by Charles Benton, author of “Kite Aerial Photography Puts Your Eye in the Sky” from MAKE volume 01. Charles Benton is an inveterate tinkerer from Berkeley, Calif., where he serves as a Professor of Architecture for the […]
In this Thing video, Steve Reeder of Motmot Shop in Vienna, demonstrates how to make pinback buttons. Buttons were one of the things I first got serious about making as a tween. I saved up my allowance money and bought a hand-held button-making machine. I even had something of a cottage industry for a time, […]
Diddressed gathered some retro-fun craft supplies like gold spray paint, glitter, walnut shells and toothpicks to create these sweetly nostalgic boat ornaments.
This awesome mod was built by Peter Dickison and is of course meant to look like a nuclear bomb from your average action movie. The metal working is great, let’s take a look at it in more detail, shall we? Here’s one of the many plans shown on the site used in the making of […]
This radiator chair doesn’t look particularly light or comfortable, but it is beautiful: (Via boingboing)
I was on GOOD’s video show today, a more positive spin on all the “depression talk”…. So, we’re in a recession: now what? Consumer spending is down and the common (wo)man has been forced to cut back. But there’s no reason to go without. Phillip Torone, senior editor at Make, visits the GOOD News studio […]
