Crochet Space Shuttle Sure, today folks are celebrating the royal wedding, but my thoughts have been more focused on today’s potential shuttle launch. Targeted for a 3:47 PM EST launch, the space shuttle Endeavour will make it’s final journey in to orbit in the next-to-last shuttle flight ever. You can read more about the mission […]
Over on CRAFT, Katie Wilson has some exclusive comments from Oakland artist Shawn HibmaCronan, whose mechanical sculpture “The Press” is on display at Terminal 2 of the San Francisco International Airport until 2021. I’m guessing the lawyers put a rope around it when they saw those big potentially-finger-crushing gears, but Shawn talks about how important it was to design the mechanism to be operated by a single person. So it’d be cool if they actually let people operate it.
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In this how-to, mountain biker Chris Nodder explains common problems with bike shifters and how to deal with them.
I’m often puzzled by how satisfying older technology is. What a treat it is to muscle around an ancient teletype, feeding it new-old paper-tape or rolls of industrial paper with the weight of a bygone era. What pleasure I take from the length of piano roll I’ve hung like a banner from a high place […]
Rachel Wright of Mobile, AL creates some interesting repurposed clothing. (Her Etsy shop is called Toolgrrl Designs.) The dresses she created for her series, The Dream Anatomy, are intriguing and beautiful. The Dream Anatomy series explore these imagined realms inside the body. Because these garments are meant to be worn, the boundary between the internal […]
I am totally in awe of The Press, an amazing printing press creation by Oakland, CA, wood artist Shawn HibmaCronan. Made from steel, bamboo, oak, cork, and rope, Shawn built almost every aspect of The Press himself.
