A new design studio and shop is opening in San Francisco and they are looking for product submissions. Non*Mart, as the shop is aptly named, touts an interesting alternative to traditional commerce by promoting the barter system. Artists are invited to submit pieces for inclusion in the shop. From the site, “To be considered, your […]
Justin Huynh writes in: The Eli Whitney Museum in Hamden, CT is hosting a maker meetup on September 23, at 7:30 PM. Museum Director Wm Brown will be giving a talk called “Eli Whitney invented MAKE” to kick-off this series of maker meetups, especially since the modern-day maker embodies many of the qualities that made […]
Tim Schwartz made clever use of an old indicator dial with his piece Paris, 2007.
I wanted to create a new theme for his room to celebrate his starting school. He asked for a room decorated from the pages of one of his favorite books, The Octonauts. This was fun and difficult at the same time. One of my favorite elements turned out to be this gussied up lamp, which came from, you guessed it, Ikea.
Doe-c-doe created this fun embroidered ode to vintage wood-paneled cars. the overall piece is 18″ x 11″ & I got the illustration from a thrifted book. I created the wood paneling by scanning a piece of wood-grain contact paper then manipulated it in photoshop to make the scale & perspective work for the image, then […]
If you’re in the SF Bay area, don’t miss the segment on Maker Faire tonight at 7 p.m. on CBS 5’s Eye on the Bay!
Our 2008 display, pictured here, featured a skeleton in an electric chair. When a kid approaches the porch the system triggers and the skeleton rises out of the chair accompanied by fog, a strobe light, and loud sounds of an electrical arc. The front window featured a rear-projection video of a large tesla coil operating with large arcs streaming everywhere to complete the ‘mad scientist’ appearance….The electric chair has a light rope for the “wires” connecting the skeleton to the chair. Upon triggering fog is released by a fog machine behind the chair, illuminated by eerie green light and a strobe light.
