The Geometry of Pasta from Pan Marketing on Vimeo. Are you lacking an Italian in your life? Ever wonder what all those amazing pasta shapes are for, and why choosing a certain shape over another matters? I certainly am, and have. Thankfully there’s a decoder cookbook, full of gorgeous black and white illustrations that appeal […]
Create a variety of natural looking shapes — ferns, trees, and dragons — using fractals and the controlP5 library.
Pam of Gingerbread Snowflakes proves that pumpkin seeds aren’t just for roasting. She shares her tutorial for cleaning and dyeing the pumpkin seeds and then how to string them together as a necklace. Brilliant!
Lego fan Jason, aka Doctor Moebius, created these cool Lego beetles… but they have a trick up their sleeves (shells?)
Giant for a model, anyway. At 4′ tall it’s only 1/20th the size of a “real” one, and still not even close to Disney World’s “almost life size” version. Still, just try offering Disney what eBay seller komonac is asking for his and see what they say. [via Boing & Boing, LLP]
The Crafts Department, over at Martha Stewart, has a photo show of how they carved the pumpkins for this month’s cover.
Spotted in the MAKE Flickr pool, this beautiful modular origami construction, Ã la Tomoko Fuse, from user fdecomite. Its formal title, Giant short nanotube, provides a rare opportunity to observe a double oxymoron in the wild.
