Stained glass pixel art
I dunno if these pixel art stained glass windows I stumbled upon in Gary in Cleveland’s Flickr stream are his original work or not, but I dig ’em. Can anyone confirm authorship?
Year: 2009
How-To: Sculpt open eyes on lifecast heads
Keeping your eyes open during a life-casting of your face is probably impossible and in any case is certainly a very bad idea. So life-cast heads always have closed eyes. YouTuber brickintheyard, affiliated with BITY Mold Supply, has provided a great video tutorial on how to sculpt those eyes back open.
CRAFT Flickr pool weekly roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: U for the Plush You! show by miaumau, Tidal twinings zig-zag basket class by Dunbar Gardens, Theremin Cat for TMBG’s Here Comes Science liner notes by the inimitable hine, and a closeup of this jellyfish embroidery by caffaknitted. What a weekend! If you haven’t joined the […]
CRAFT weekly recap
It’s been awesome week on Craftzine. Here are some of my favorites: Carl Thompson Custom Basses How-To: Knit Caution Tape Spider Silk Weaving Pixelated Art From Paint Chips Shoelace Rug
How-To: Cast cheap foam skulls
There’s Jake, there’s Elwood, and there’s Dr. Kreepy. In this video he shows you how to cast cheap prop skulls by blowing canned expanding foam from the hardware store into a blow-molded plastic master. Good stuff. Wear work clothes!
How-To: Turn shelf fungi into actual shelves
Natalie at the CRAFT blog just posted Paul Baxendale’s cool mushroom-shelf-making tutorial and I think it belongs over here, too.
Back in the Maker Shed: MAKE Controller Kit v2.0
The MAKE Controller Kit is an open source hardware platform for projects requiring high performance control/feedback, connectivity, and ease of use. It can be programmed and run autonomously or used as a peripheral to desktop/laptop applications via the popular OSC protocol. The MAKE Controller is supported by great open source software tools.