Sweaters for Intimacy
Jeanne Jo is an interesting artist working in a number of different media, and here’s a piece from 2005 that really catches my eye: Sweaters for Intimacy: 42 sweaters sewn into pairs.
Year: 2009
Strange signal on 14.250 MHz
Drdeak writes – This is a video I took on the 2nd of January 2009 at my amateur radio station. I first heard it on New Year’s eve early afternoon. It was on all day today and other ham operators across the country have reported receiving the signal; a very strong signal as well. The […]
Tiny Monogram Challenge From Sublime Stitching
Wowza! Look how teeny tiny this monogrammed pillow is over on the Sublime Stitching web site! The Sublime Stitching folks are hosting a Tiny Monogram Challenge to see if anyone has the needle guts to make a monogram even more micro than this one. The winner will take home a box set of the first […]
Rerooting Blythe Doll Hair – CRAFT Video Podcast
I started getting interested in Blythe when I wanted to make a three-dimensional self portrait, and was dumbfounded by the enormous community of customizers working with the Blythe Doll. One of the main online sources for customization is Puchi Collective, which houses oodles of tops for changing her eyechips, face makeup, and clothes. I was […]
Behind the Scenes at the permiere of Make:television @ Geekdad
Behind the Scenes at the permiere of Make:television @ Geekdad – Dan writes – MAKE:television invited GeekDad to their premiere event in Minnesota this week. GeekDad John and I played with some of the projects they built on the air, met the host, John Park and got a preview of the series. It was a […]
Interview with Freeman Transport
Selectism did an interview with American commuter bike makers Freeman Transport on the importance of feeling the hand of the maker in their product (bikes). It’s all around inspiring! …We wanted people to know how important it is for us to support US manufacturing and the lack thereof. If things continue to go the direction […]
alt.CES: Scan books into audio files
Plustek is showing this $700 Book Reader V100 at CES 2009. It scans books directly into MP3 audio files using optical code recognition (OCR) and a tiny little man with a mellifluous baritone voice trapped inside. Or some kind of text-to-speech program. I’m not sure which. Given the choice between this and buying something that’s […]
