NES emulator hacker Xkeeper has been working on a Lua script that allows you to manipulate Super Mario Bros. game objects right in the middle of game play: FCEUX is a NES emulator. It has Lua scripting support, and in the latest versions, a feature that allows you to grab input from the mouse and […]
On Wednesday at 4pm EDT, Magda Sayeg aka PolyCotN from Knitta, Please, will be in Etsy’s Virtual Labs encouraging guerilla crafting! Come on by and get inspired to start your own street crafting crew. Read a recent interview with Magda at The Storque.
I love spring with its rain showers, budding trees, and sense of renewal. And while it’s definitely fun to play in the mud, it’s not so fun when that mud enters my car. (Did I mention I have a big, white, fluffy dog?) Great time to revisit Brookelynn Morris’ Custom Seat Covers project from CRAFT […]
Sean Ragan writes: A few times in my experiments with creative reuse I’ve had some very satisfying Aha! moments. One was my finding, back in 2004, that this flexible blue plastic conduit (or “ENT” = Electrical Nonmetallic Tubing), which I find very beautiful, fits perfectly into 3/4″ PVC pipe fittings. Using only conduit, 3/4″ PVC […]
Here’s a really attractively displayed project by H. Mathis: Using Craigslist, I posed a listing in every state. Each had to be unique. The Craigslist post read that I was working on an art project. (oh man, do people love that) I explained that I created a dirt retrieval system to get the dirt back […]
Inspired by the 50 handmade boxes sent from the Coraline movie creators to bloggers, my little mochi put together a Coraline mini-mystery box swap. The boxes are being completed and shipped, and there are some really stunning pieces showing up in the swap’s Flickr pool. I love the way everyone was so inspired to create […]
In response to Chris’ Val ties the canoe piece, one of our readers, Dave, wrote: Zeppelin knot I bought a used Mother Earth News magazine just because of the article on a knot that it had inside. It is a GREAT knot for tying two lines together. The history makes it interesting. Here is the […]
