Giant Papercraft Gundam
This Freedom Gundam is made of 175 pages of printer paper comprising 500 parts. The finished sculpture is four feet tall and comes complete with a process video. [via Kotaku]
Month: July 2010
How to Build a Medieval Castle
How cool is this? The Chateau de Guedelon, in Burgundy, France, is a new medieval castle. Say what? That’s right: the castle was started in 1998 and is being built entirely by hand using medieval techniques. The stone is quarried from the site, the nails are made by blacksmiths right then and there, and they […]
Pixel casting machine
Julian Bond built this physical casting machine, which can be used as a re-configurable mold to cast ceramic objects
How-To: Tomato Cage Lanterns
Kelly of Make Grow Gather shares this fun, quick and messy project for creating a tomato cage lantern with fabric and fabric stiffener. It would be a fun project to whip up to decorate for any outdoor 4th of July parties this weekend!
Blacklight-happy fabjects
Nicholas Lewis of Everett, WA, made a Mendel print using translucent blue PLA and got a neat surprise: After receiving my PLA from UltiMachine on Monday I put the natural roll on and did some test prints. I was saving the blue translucent until after adjusting the machine a little more. For some reason I […]
How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos
By Susannah Bothe Capturing either fast-moving or often sleeping babies with our cameras can be a challenge. As a photographer specializing in all forms of family portraiture, I share some useful tips below on how to photograph your precious little ones. Topics discussed in this how-to include the following: set-up, lighting, composition, camera settings and […]
Felted Seascape Celebrates Summer
Our pal Holly White-Wolfe over at Sono-ma.com points to this awesome seascape created by Monica Ashley to celebrate the solstice and the arrival of summer. To which I say: “Felted friends, the beach, cool breezes, and plenty of sunshine. Hallelujah!” Monica also offers summer art camps for kids in the San Francisco Bay Area, with […]
