How-To: Cherry Blossom Garlands from Disposable Tablecloths
The Creative Jewish Mom blog has a super simple post on how to make cherry blossom garlands from disposable tablecloths. I love that “randomness” is a key in their making.
Month: January 2010
Helvetica Cookie Cutters
I only eat typographically distinguished cookies, so it’s a good thing I found these Helvetica cookie cutters by Beverly Hsu! [via The Crafty Chica]
This week in Maker Events
Looking to take a break from tinkering on your latest project this weekend? Here are some fine maker events to check out, from The Maker Events Calendar.
How-To: Table Cloth to Treat Bags
Heidi Kenney of My Paper Crane shares how she turned a vinyl tablecloth into cute, reusable treat bags for her son’s class Valentine party. Brilliant!
This Week In Craft Fairs
There’s always a bit of a lull in craft fairs after the holidays, but it’s picking back up. Remember to add upcoming events to our calendar! And if you have a call for entries you want listed in this weekly post, please . Coming Up This Weekend: Sunday, Crafty Sunday Gift Bazaar – Valentine’s Day […]
Adding VGA output to a Beagleboard
Interested in playing with the open-source Beagleboard, but don’t have a DVI-capable monitor to use it with?
Movie: Manufactured Landscapes
While we’re on the subject of great Maker-movies, I feel obliged to mention Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary Manufactured Landscapes, which is a survey of the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose mรยฉtier is finding beauty in the midst of environments radically altered by human activity. If you watch no further than the first shot, you will have seen one of the most amazing takes I’ve ever seen in any movie, ever: It’s an eight minute tracking shot of a Chinese factory floor that just goes on and on and on, and you keep thinking “This place can’t be that big; this shot has to end soon.” And it doesn’t. And the images of the ship-breaking beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, are like something out of a post-apocalyptic video game. Beautiful and frightening.
