Katie Sokoler made these giant thought bubbles and hung them around Brooklyn, NY. The idea was to photograph people as they walked by. Check out the photos collected at the link below. Color Me Katie via Rebel Art
Craft Leftovers is offering a free download for these fun spice jar labels, which help you keep track of what’s in your jars and when it was purchased.
Afrigadget had a piece about this art colony near Nairobi National Park, called Kitengela Glass. They use local artisans (and train new ones) to make and sell items from recycled glass, metal, and other materials. From the Kitengela website: They try to help their locale as much as possible – over fifty people have been […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Barbie’s ride gets a major makeover [above, bottom-right] Homegrown modem from days of yore Cheapest standalone arduino? Compact laser light show from computer salvage [above, bottom-left] Wind-triggered garden light Handy tip for coin cell clips Secondhand mini-amp turned talkbox [above, top-right] Elegante pianoforte digitale Fractal woodburning reveals hidden aesthetic [above, […]
Some of you asked for a RSS feed of all the Make: television torrents and here it is… But wait, there’s more! If you use Miro to get your content we have a Make: television channel set up there too. Here’s the one-click add.
Here’s a torrent of Make: television episode 03 @ LegalTorrents. Enter the alternative universe of Jake Von Slatt, a leading Steampunk Maker, who turns modern technology into Victorian works of art. In the Maker Workshop, John Park mounts a remote control camera on a painter’s pole to take stunning aerial photographs, and Cy Tymony demonstrates […]
Georgia Tech grad student Matt Gilbert has been making some awesome crochet from a pattern generator he made, finding inspiration in acoustics. He and I share a strong opinion that computing and iterative crafting (crochet, knitting, weaving, etc.) have much in common. He writes: While the Jacquard Loom allowed for the beautiful and elaborate patterns […]
