Giant Soft Egg
Fiber artist Bonnie Boogaard made this giant fabric egg as part of a food-themed show. Also notable are her felt pizza slice and wall spaghetti!
Month: June 2010
Ribcage as iPad case
Luscious texture! The anatomically-inspired RibCage iPad case supposedly uses its “bones” to protect the screen. I’m curious what the mold looks like that’s used to form its faux-leather surface. [via Street Anatomy]
3D Graffiti Sculptures
Evan writes – Graffiti Analysis: Sculptures is a series of new physical sculptures that I am making from motion tracked graffiti data. New software (GA 3D) imports .gml files (Graffiti Markup Language) captured using Graffiti Analysis, creates 3D geometry based on the data and then exports a 3D representation of the tag as a .stl […]
How-To: Yo Gabba Gabba DJ Baby Rock Knit Hat
Vickie Howell shares a pattern for knitting this fun toddler hat inspired by Yo Gabba Gabba’s DJ Lance’s hat.
Save My Oceans: Grand Prize Winner
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 […]
How-To: Make traditional Hawaiian shark-tooth weapons
OK, so it’s not actually a tutorial–it’s a chapter from Oakland martial arts instructor Sid Campbell’s 2006 Warrior Arts and Weapons of Ancient Hawaii that’s freely available in its entirety on Google Books. I found Campbell’s book after seeing one of these lei o mano, as I think they are called, in a Discovery channel program. Before hiking to the library to check it out I thought, what the heck, I’ll see how much is available on gBooks, and was surprised to find that the chapter on shark-tooth weapons, which goes into great detail about the various traditional methods of preparing the teeth and attaching them to the handle, is all there. Thanks to Mr. Campbell and his publisher. If you’re into it, please consider buying the book.
Bionic Cat Feet
From BBC News, a cat named Oscar gets bionic legs! You’ve got to check out the video. Where do I sign up for a pair of these? A cat that had its back feet severed by a combine harvester has been given two prosthetic limbs in a pioneering operation by a UK vet. The new […]
