Illustration by for Len Churchill for Homemade Caskets: You Can Make a Coffin, Mother Earth News When I was 20 years old, I helped my best friend die of cancer. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, and also one of the most soul-satisfying. In the grand circuitry of life, there is […]
Last weekend at Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, Angela McNally’s felt collages depicting icons from video game and internet culture. Check out her Etsy shop, Pixl Pushr.
Butlerbots are starting to finally become more popular, many built upon the iRobot Create platform. Such is the case with Belvedere, who cracks jokes, serves appetizers (and cake!) at parties, and is teaching one-year-old Ethan how to dance like a cylindrical robot with no rhythm. Belvedere – A Butler Robot
I’ve been doing a lot of digging in my garden lately, and my 14-month-old loves nothing better than digging right alongside. Getting the dirt off my hands at the end of the day is hard enough, but it’s almost impossible to clean up a wriggly toddler! I really like this sewn soap pouch how-to (try […]
Almost 11 months ago, Natalie Purschwitz made her first pair of shoes out of leather and wood — “a rudimentary beginning” to a tremendous undertaking. Her self-made challenge, now 9 months underway, is a venture called Makeshift. Starting September 1, 2009, Purschwitz — an award-winning clothing designer and the founder of Vancouver-based Hunt & Gather […]
It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.
Found on Designboom: This wooden replica of the Hubble, created by artist Pete Hennessey of Melbourne, Australia. But wait, there’s more: he’s done recreations of Voyager, Mission Control, and a superbad version of the Lunar Rover, above.
