Photograph by Javier Trueba This is certainly old news to the geologists in our midst, but I couldn’t believe my eyes watching this BBC video clip of Professor Iain Stewart exploring the amazing Cueva de los Cristales (Cave of Crystals) in Naica, Mexico. The cave is home to crystal beams as long as 36 feet […]
Spice Your Prints with “Shadowgraphs†Mechanix Illustrated, Aug, 1941. So that’s what people did before clip art and photoshop :)
These photos remind me of just how much little babies sleep! Using artfully arranged blankets, the carpeted floor, and her baby’s propensity to sleep all the time, Mila’s mom Adele (Helsinki, Finland) stages imagined dreamscapes for her daughter on her blog, Mila’s Daydreams. The tagline on her blog is “I’d like to see your dreams, […]
This fabulous musical instrument was created by members of the Perth, Australia hackerspace Artifactory. It will be having its first public concert in about two weeks, and the final configuration will have 13 coils in 2 tiers. (The photo shows a partially competed build.) Bicycle spokes are proving to be a fun choice for the […]
How cool is this? These signs showed up at Purdue University, on the sides of Neil Armstrong Hall. Here’s the full text: I think work should be about making things work. Better. Faster. Smaller. Smarter. So I build bridges between what’s known and what’s not. I tinker. I toil. I write poetically in an abundance […]
Perfect for your Mystique or other reptilian costume, Instructables user sincerlydisregard wrote up this how-to for creating scales using liquid latex.
Congratulations to Debbie from upstate New York for winning a copy of Cute and Easy Costumes for Kids! Let us know what you make from the book. Thanks to everyone for the great comments.
