Month: January 2009

Aged resistor macro

Aged resistor macro

From the MAKE: Flickr pool Flickr member bengt-re serves up this dusty electronics eye candy of a 47Ω resistor in the wild. I sure enjoy me some good ciricuit board macro and this shot has some sweet detail including specs on it’s creation – Camera: Canon EOS 40D Exposure: 0.5 sec (1/2) Aperture: f/13 Focal […]

My Currency, My Money

My Currency, My Money

Hanna von Goeler’s “My Money, My Currency” via Land-o-links… The artist’s statement- The interstitial quality of money as it travels from person to person is the point of departure for “My Money, My Currency”. THis ongoing project chronicles my struggle and relationship with money. It also explores the ethical, political, and aesthetic questions that surround […]

Favorite Tutorials on CRAFT in 2008

Of all the possible things to post, my favorite is always tutorials. I love seeing people’s projects and how they made them. It was hard to choose, but here are some of my favorite tutorials/patterns/recipes that appeared on CRAFT this year. Toys & Whimsy HOW TO – Philly Phanatic HOW TO – Make a Meerkat […]

Evolution of the drink

Evolution of the drink

Over the holidays Jim Harriman decided to investigate the family tree of alcoholic drinks. To do this, he screen-scraped all the mixed drink recipes he could find online and crunched the recipe data with a program that generates phylogenetic trees, drawing relationships between drink species with matching ingredient genes. Note that you can make out […]