Jenny Hart, artist and founder of Sublime Stitching, will be giving an artist talk tonight in Austin at Domy Books, where her show Study Hall Drawings is currently on exhibit. These are drawings based on year-book photos of various students from my high school. I grew up and attended school in the same town throughout […]
Mark Frauenfelder www.colbertnation.com For those of you who missed Mark Frauenfelder’s appearance on The Colbert Report last night (or just don’t have a TV), the segment is now live online. Watch it above or on Colbert Nation.
Kate Hartman and Hazel Meyer (both at OCAD) have developed a project called Nudgeables, where the wearers of a garter/brooch pair can communicate with each other over a short distance, “nudging” each other with small vibrating motors. The garter switch is activated by crossing one’s legs, and the brooch has a clever soft “pinch” switch. […]
Check out the excellent work by artist Thomas Kuntz, a sculptor who specializes in ornate, macabre automata. The alchemical process begins with the exquisite clay sculpture that is transformed into a shell. This body houses gears, chains, shafts, cams, levers, cylinders and valves. Many materials are used including carefully machined brass, steel, wood and composites […]
John Baichtal over at MAKE points us to these amazing life-size wooden spacecraft replicas. Found on Designboom: This wooden replica of the Hubble, created by artist Pete Hennessey of Melbourne, Australia. But wait, there’s more: he’s done recreations of Voyager, Mission Control, and a superbad version of the Lunar Rover, above. Pardon me while I […]
The Antipasto folks have a short tutorial on how to assemble battery powered touchscreen BeagleBoard gadgets. There’s minimal soldering involved, but well worth heating up the iron.
Leatherman Super Tool 300 is the multi-tool for the working Maker. Larger pliers are the strongest we’ve ever produced and the sloped-top handle design means you can maneuver them further into tight spaces.
