Whenever I want to start baking, I never seem to remember to put the butter out beforehand. Ok, I admit I’m impatient for the thought of whatever cookies or cupcakes I’ll soon be eating. Simply Recipes has a great tip on how to quickly soften butter by rolling it out between wax paper sheets. Thanks […]
Photo from Afropicmusing via Afrigadget Afrigadget has a post on repurposed shipping containers. A search through Flickr for shipping container gives some interesting results. I like the apartment building. Wikipedia has an entry on shipping container architecture. You may also want to park your container across the valley from Gareth (It doesn’t sound like he […]
Wow, check out irI5‘s portraits in cassette tape! What a neat use for this recycled material. Via BoingBoing.
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One of the most fun, active areas of the crafty side of Maker Faire is the Swap-o-Rama-Rama clothing refashion extravaganza. Between the mounds of clothes waiting to embark on their second lives, the whir of dozens of sewing machines filling the air, and the steady stream of screen printers leaving their mark on everything from […]
Douglas Repetto writes: The 1,618,033rd dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 at Location One in SoHo. Featuring the divine and proportionate: Erik Sanner: Paintings that Move, Spring Planting, and How to Enjoy Traffic Cones Why make art when every day we encounter strikingly beautiful, impenetrable objects of infinite interpretation? […]
I found this really interesting video on YouTube that was filmed by Tom Swindell. Felix Thirn created the amazing mechanical piece of art featured in the video. Other credits go to the Director Tom Mansfield, and Editor Chris Barnet. Great work! More about Felix’s Machines
