It took a huge amount of design, engineering, and coordination to create this spectacular Rube Goldberg machine in this internet-sensation OK Go video. We’d like to introduce you to four of the designers! Dan Busby – Bottom Floor I was one of the guys who helped build the machine. While we had a few core […]
Take a look “behind the scenes” as Kipkay shares what goes into shooting the Weekend Project videos and shares some tips to help you be a better movie maker. To download the Making The Weekend Projects video click here
Andrew Salomone wrote a project for CRAFT, in which is guides you though creating a pair of retro-style running shoes from old tires and a busted pair of jeans. It’s upcrafting month on CRAFT, where we explore all the possibilities surrounding repurposed, recycled, and refashioned crafts!
In response to our Maker Business coverage, I got a wonderful email from Fran Shea of Zeichen Press. She wanted to tell us about her foray into the small letterpress business she started with her sister-in-law, Jen. Being a huge letterpress fanboy, how could I resist? Here’s a short interview I conducted with Fran. — […]
The half life lamp by Joris Laarman is apparently powered by living, bioluminescent hamster cells.
By Andrew Salomone A few years ago a friend of mine brought me to a little town in Mexico to see the Tarahumara race. The Tarahumara are an indigenous people who live in a massive canyon and run incredible distances in sandals, called huaraches, made from old car tires. When I tried to wear a […]
I didn’t know such a thing as scientific cookies existed, or even that a round up (or two) were needed to show off all the flavors and possibilities that creative people have come up with. But now I realize I was living in the plain white flour and possibly moldy pantries of mundane cookiedom. Why […]
