Al Linke has just thrown down the gauntlet by entering his DIY Magic Mirror in our Gadget Freak Design contest! Al’s prototype won the Tech Grand Prize in our 2008 DIY Halloween Contest, and the kit he’s developed is for sale now in Makers Market. It features a Sleeping-Beauty style floating, talking face in a gilt-framed mirror with an amazingly wide variety of integrated and integrable functions–even a breathalyzer!
July is Design & Photography month on Craftzine. And while I know we have 2 more days of June, I couldn’t resist sharing Canadian photographer Lissy Laricchia and her fantastical shots of various fictional characters getting sucked back into their literary origins. Can you guess who’s who? Here’s a hint, clockwise from top left: she […]
By Andrew Lewis Sometimes, the simplest recipes are the best. These succulent pork ribs are great at barbecues and can be served cold at picnics, yet they only take a few minutes to prepare. Although this recipe calls for pork ribs, the marinade works equally well on belly draft, pork chops, chicken wings, or even […]
Last weekend in NYC, Vice and Intel launched an event/chennel about art and technology called the Creators Project. Lots of cool projects, here are a few highlights: Hojun Song – Open Source Satelitte James Powderly – Eyewriter Muti Randolph – Deep Screen
Dawn and Nicholas Burger got married on September 2, 2007. Their amazing cake pictured above was made by Dawn’s maid of honor and a good friend from high school — both University administrators by day, pastry guru and artist by night! Dawn shares with us the details about their handmade wedding. Dawn writes: We were […]
Evan Merz’s album Black Allegheny was arranged by the behavior of many AI ‘agents’ functioning within a bit of Java-based software – In Becoming, I directly borrow Cageรขโฌโขs gamut and graph concepts; however, the software assembles music using concepts from the AI subfield of swarm intelligence. I place a number of agents on the graph […]
Last week, we featured each of our top five finalists in the Save My Oceans contest. Now we can reveal which of these finalists is the Grand Prize Winner. All the entries in the contest were impressive, and it was great to see all the fun, innovative and practical ways folks are reusing plastics in […]
