Humongous treehouse
That’s no treehouse, that’s a foresthouse! The Worlds Greatest TreeHouse
Month: October 2009
Light-Up Dog Costumes
Alison at Switch appeared on Martha yesterday and showed off how to make this light-up dandelion dog costume and the illuminated porcupine dog costume (below).
Xerox develops conductive ink for printable circuits
Xerox recently announced a new conductive ink that will allow for flexible printed ICs which are stable in open-air environments – Xerox’s process uses ink containing silver metal that can be used to wire up processing circuitry. It works on surfaces such as plastic that earlier have shown an inconvenient tendency to melt under the […]
Play kitchen made from shelving parts
I really like this homemade play kitchen build from dollar store shelving parts. It cost less than $20 and breaks down for storage.
Meticulously cut paper maps of NYC
four paper panels, each panel measures approximately three feet by four feet (overall dimensions, six feet in width x 8 feet in height) and exposes city blocks of brooklyn, manhattan, queens, and the bronx. the panels fit together like panes of a window and all four pieces must be sold as a set. image one would located in the lower left pane. image two located in the upper left pane. image three in the upper right pane and image four in the lower right pane. image five shows the delicacy of the pieces
Brian Jungen’s Strange Comfort
CRAFT’s graphic designer Katie Wilson wrote about Brian Jungen‘s show, Strange Comfort, at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. (through August 8, 2010): Native American artist Brian Jungen (Dunne-za) creates perceived icons of Indian culture from commonplace utilitarian objects — an igloo from trash cans, a whale skeleton from plastic chairs, […]
Captain Electric and Battery Boy
Brookelynn @ CRAFT writes: This dress is called the “Itchy Dress,” and it uses kinetic energy to power lights in the garment.