I wish I could see this beautiful origami holiday tree at the American Museum of Natural History in person. Five hundred origami sculptures were created by volunteers to adorn the 13-foot tree. Each piece reflects an actual object or specimen found in the exhibit hall. The theme of this year’s 13-foot tree is Discovery, featuring […]
Our resident space geek, Rachel Hobson, turned us on to this amazing amateur video, posted on the Bad Astronomy blog, of animated photos of Jupiter. In the blog post, Phil Plait writes: That is just about the finest imagery of Jupiter from the ground I have ever seen! Look at the detail: the Great Red […]
Johngineer writes: My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn’t find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of brass stock I had lying around. I did a little CAD drawing to help myself visualize what it would […]
We love covering design and photography projects so here’s a roundup of our best Design and Photography projects from this year. Pictured above is Andrew Lewis’ tutorial for printing on fabric with an inkjet printer. How-To: Create Great Kids Photos and How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos by Susannah Bothe How-To: Build an Amateur Photography Rig […]
Johngineer writes: My mother collects rocking horses. She tries to get at least one each year for Christmas. This year, she couldn’t find anything she liked in the stores, so I made her one out of brass stock I had lying around. I did a little CAD drawing to help myself visualize what it would […]
Here is our final installment of Maker Pioneers featuring inventors, entrepreneurs, and makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Kurt Fleischer. Kurt is a senior research scientist at Pixar, where he worked on building filmmaking software and directly on such films as Cars and […]
Wow! I got some great cards in the Brooklyn Bride card swap this year. Take a look at this Flickr set to get a close-up of each one.
