Photo: My Love For You Ben Venom makes visually dazzling quilts from pieces of cut up heavy metal t-shirts. “See you on the other side” is his latest work, and you can see it in an exhibition called, Ban 6 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The exhibition opens this […]
Wicked mechanical papercraft from Instructables user dombeef. I actually made a remarkably similar model when I was but a lad, but it didn’t turn out nearly as well as this one. It’s his entry in their ongoing Toy Challenge.
Flickr user AM RADIO created a whole new breed of camera when he hooked a 1917 Series III Kodak 127 to his Pentax K10D. He dubbed the result Frankensteintax, and it actually works! The modern camera shoots through the antique lens, and results are pretty stunning. Here’s a link to his full set on Flickr: […]
The KDS-POTO2 camera by Kit Man of kit da studio is over the top. Assembled from laser-cut acrylic parts and scavenged lenses, this fully functional manual film camera takes interesting pictures reminiscent of an analog Hipstamtic or DIY Lomo and seems like it would be a blast to assemble.
As we previewed last month, the Vancouver Mini Maker Faire featured the Panterragaffe, an ambulatory vehicle inspired by Theo Janssen’s famous Strandbeests. Panterragaffe is a pedal powered two person walking machine, a walking bicycle. The name has a few elements to it. It’s a play on pantograph, which is a mechanism for copying drawings, since […]
Recently for my girlfriend’s shower I used the Photobooth application on my laptop to add a fun feature to the party. Priya, Jandra, and Ruella take it a step further by building their own for Apartment Therapy’s Home Hacks 2010. Just think of all of the back-drops you can hand make! More: DIY Photobooth Rig […]
As a sewer for a long time, I always wondered how crafters used jelly rolls, charm packs, etc., that I often saw at fabric shops. As a quilter I now get it, but these pre-cut fabric options are very versatile in your craft room. I recently used one Moda “Nautical and Nice” charm pack to […]
