Year: 2010

Is That a Cat in Your Pocket?

When a friend changed his Facebook profile picture to one of him and his son wearing a hilarious and awesome coordinated western cat-in-your-pocket t-shirt and baby snapsuit, I had to know where he found them. They came from Brooklyn-based Deli Grocery who has a handful of fun screen-printed tees in their shop. Now I’m plotting […]

Weekly Make: Projects round up

Weekly Make: Projects round up

Here are a few of our favorite new offerings on Make:Projects. If you haven’t registered yet, done a project, or posted one, what are you waiting for? Here’s how to get started. Projects from MAKE magazine and Make: Online: Playable Pac-Man Costume Halloween will be sneaking up and scaring the stuffing out of you before […]

How-To: Cast a solid ice beer caddy

How-To: Cast a solid ice beer caddy

Rob Cockerham–who has previously brought us spring shoes, a sweet Doc Ock costume, and How Much is Inside?, among other delights–wanted to serve a six-pack out of a solid block of ice. The block had to be cast with openings that would hold the bottles tightly but still let them slip loose when somebody wanted one. It took a bit of trial and error, but he eventually got the process figured out. The whole story is here. Rob hasn’t tried it yet, but he thinks, as I do, that one of these will probably float in a swimming pool fully loaded. Nice work, Rob! [via Boing Boing]

Awesome custom skateboards

Awesome custom skateboards

Alan Argondizza of Ithaca, NY, wrote in to share the super cool skateboards that he builds from scratch using sheets of birch plywood cut with a jigsaw and hand-held router, then decorated by hand with paint pens, spray paint, and sharpies. Interested in making your own? Alan’s provides an excellent how-to on his site.