Spice Skulls
Helen Altman cast these skull forms from different spices and glue. They’re amazing to see in person! They’ll be at the Dead or Alive exhibit in NYC until October 24.
Month: October 2010
Refashioning Louis Vuitton at Parsons
Ecouterre reports on the recent Reconstruction 2.0 competition at Parsons where students cut up Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Sumer 2010 collection and stitched them back into their own wearable art. Pictured below is the winning piece “Time Travel” by Janelle Abbot, Zachary Clark, Emily Hudson, and William Norris.
Making a Vuvu Gramophone
Ah. Those ubiquitous Vuvuzelas. I don’t watch soccer, don’t own a TV, and I still became overwhelmed with Vuvuzela references and World Cup fever. And in its wake, the world was overwhelmed with the deafeningly-loud 2′ plastic tooters. Now that the matches are over and the world’s attention has moved on, what to do with […]
Laser cut rubber band gun
DXF files freely available from Thingiverse user freakinhuge. Been thinking about designing one kinda like this myself, but with a release trigger.
How-To: Recycled Glass Bead Earrings
Kristin of Craft Leftovers shows you how you can salvage leftover beads from jewelry projects or from old jewelry pieces to make sweet and simple earrings. And that’s it. Once you get a few done, you can start whipping up earrings in about 10 minutes a pair or less. They make great Christmas gifts, birthday […]
Coconut Deconstructed
I’m really enjoying The Sweet Beet, a food blog with a focus on nutrition and “real” food. This latest post has some fascinating facts about coconut: “the water has more potassium than a banana, the flesh more fiber than an apple and the oil comprised of a nutritious fat found only (at such high levels) […]
Make: Projects Halloween roundup
With Halloween just two weeks away, costumes, house decor, and party plans are well in the works. We’ve been busy entering a bunch of the projects we ran in the Make: Halloween Special Edition into Make: Projects, our new projects library. Take a look at our Halloween project offerings, which includes the animatronic Flying Crank […]