Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn, NY have some rad craft classes coming up very soon at their Gowanus facility: Corset Making – 3-part Class: Dec 5, 12 & 19 SantaCon Prep Class w/ Jacquie: Dec 7 SEWING MONSTERS! – Intro to Sewing with Jason: Dec 13 Christmas Stocking Making w/ Jacquie: Dec 14 Make Your Own […]
I’m completely enthralled by these colorful thread installations by Gabriel Dawe. I had the good fortune to spend some time with Fred Sandback when I worked at the Dia Center many years ago, and this seems like an exuberant reinterpretation of those minimalist string sculptures. It’s incredible the way the thread just looks like colored […]
Madagascar Institute in Brooklyn, NY have some interesting classes coming up very soon at their Gowanus facility: Electrochemical Etching with Household Ingredients Dec 9 and 11 This class will teach you to transform flimsy paper images into indelible metal, using easily available materials and the magic of electrical ion transfer. Make authoritative brass plaques to […]
Since the Makers Market beta closed, a group of self-described “MM Refugees” has set up an Etsy treasury to promote their “wonderful science, tech and artistic creations.” I’m very pleased to see this; some of my personal favorites are included. They’ve also got a Facebook group. [Thanks, Michelle!]
i3 Detroit’s Matt Switlik is a pro when it comes to EL wire crafting. Here’s a time-lapse video he made of himself creating an EL wire cowboy hat he’ll be teaching how to make this weekend at the Detroit Urban Craft Fair. I think I need one of these.
Here is the second installment of our series of Make: Shorts covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou and Sol Design Lab. Among other things, they turn lovely vintage gas pumps into solar-powered electronic device […]
I really like the work Robert Hodgin is doing with a Kinect and Cinder to map a texture onto the Kinect’s sensor output. Check out his Kinect pix on Flickr. (Click pix for big.)
