Made On Earth — Going Buggy
With an entomologist’s passion and meticulous attention to detail, glass artist Wesley Fleming recreates bugs in the form of tiny glass sculptures.
Month: March 2009
How-To: Power outlet from light socket
You can get these things at hardware stores in the US, but not in central Europe, where the Graffiti Research Lab Vienna operates. Use a light bulb and an electrical socket to create on-the-go power for your tools, in this case a projector. The basic idea is pretty simple: in a lot of today’s urban […]
Make Free — Love the Machine, Hate the Factory
The biggest appeal of steampunk is that it exalts the machine and disparages the mechanization of human creativity.
The Making of a Flower Head Vase
Ceramics artist Jeff Campana makes these lovely flower head vases, and he just posted process pictures of how they’re made. I haven’t worked in clay since high school, and it’s still really interesting!
How-To: Spring Clean Your Sewing Machine
Check out this great post on how to clean your sewing machine over on Craft Nectar. (All the better to mend with, my dear!) Sewing machine maintenance is something I have never attempted, which probably explains why my bobbin thread is always getting tangled up in dust bunnies! There are some really nice step-by-step photos […]
Old school intertubes
Photo from Museum of Retro Technology Years ago, I came upon The Victorian Internet by Tom Stangadge. It’s a fascinating read, telling the tale of how the world was girdled by copper wires carrying text messages to far flung places. The Victorian Age’s instant messaging system allowed geography and time to be compressed through the […]
Phil is on “MAKEcation” – see you at Maker Faire!
Hey gang! You may have noticed less posts and articles from me in the last couple of weeks. I am about to 100% go on a “MAKEcation” — this is a term I thought up for folks who want to take a “vacation,” but instead of going to a tropical island, you build projects you […]