Amanda of Amandeleine made Oreo stuffed chocolate chip cookies. She says: It’s exactly what it sounds like. Make cookie dough. Scoop dough. Smoosh around a double stuff Oreo in its entirety. Bake. Eat. Yeah. So I’m just going to drop this recipe in front of you guys and back away slowly. You don’t need me. […]
As a graphic designer who works in publishing, it’s easy to forget that my profession often dovetails nicely with other creative pursuits. If you deal in imagery and functionality, your materials are endless. So it was nice to see this video with quilt maker Denyse Schmidt and be reminded that arts and crafts don’t need to be divided by a “vs.”
In a follow-up to my recent post about Charlie Visnic’s B-Roll blog, and his recent attempts at making rigs for generating ginormous bubbles, here’s a video he posted of bubbles on Stinson beach. So gorgeous and lyrical, and something to long for as we’re teased by an imminent spring. Giant Stinson Beach Bubbles
I admit to a guilty love of all things Oscar (particularly peeping all those beautiful dresses before the show starts!) and one of these years I’m going to throw a proper dress-up Academy Awards Party. Twig and Thistle has a bunch of great Oscar Party paper template downloads, including printable invitations, ballots, envelope liners, popcorn […]
What does a Toothpick City look like? It looks like… this video!
Prestigious general science journal Nature has just published a video segment on MAKE pals GenSpace NYC. GenSpace, an open dues-based DIYbio workspace in downtown Brooklyn, bills itself as “the first-ever community laboratory.” This line from their front page is highly quotable:
Two weeks ago I proclaimed a winner in the microcontroller dev board arena with “Why the Arduino Won, and Why It’s Here to Stay.” There’s still lots of great debate going on, and conversations that still haven’t ended. Is my prediction right? We’ll see what happens in the upcoming months and years. This week I’m […]
