Ben Franklin Crafts in downtown Manistique When I knew I was going to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I immediately started looking up Ben Franklin Crafts locations. A nod back to the days of the five-and-time, BF has a general store feel with a heavy emphasis on crafts. You tend to find them in your smaller towns. […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Ginko the Glowinthedark Bear Me by loveandasandwich, Home container box by gaudblogvrudaii, Class: DIY Footwear using recycled jeans by DoNight, and Friendship Bracelets by goodnightgracie.
Evan Roth wants a Graffiti Markup Language tag recorder badly enough to pay 1200 euros for one. GML Field Recorder Challenge An easily reproducible DIY device that can unobtrusively record graffiti motion data during a graffiti writer’s normal practice in the city. Project Description and Design Requirements: The GML Field Recorder Challenge is a DIY […]
It’s a LEGO world, we just live in it. ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ to be featured… Several large exhibits built with Lego blocks will be on display Sept. 11 and Sept. 12 at the Clermont County Fairgrounds. Ken Osbon of Goshen Township, one of the organizers of the event, will have one scene depicting the […]
Martha Stewart rounds up the top 50 best clip art from her site. I love these doily tins and miniature gift bags. [via Curbly]
Craig Kaplan and Robert Bosch turned the Traveling Salesman Problem – a famous and important problem from computer science – in to a way of rendering halftone images, called TSP Art. The goal of the Travelling Salesman Problem (TSP) is, given a list of cities, to determine the shortest tour that visits each city exactly […]
I’m on the road right now for a friend’s wedding in Michighan’s Upper Peninsula, but here’s a quick peek at where I was today and what I’ll chat about tomorrow: Ben Franklin Crafts, a small-town staple.
