Sylvia’s Super Awesome Mini Maker Show: Crazy Putty
Did you know you could have fun making extended polymer chains at home with household chemicals? You bet you can! Today we’re going to make “Crazy putty!”
Year: 2011
Sylvia’s Super Awesome Mini Maker Show: Rockets
Did you know you could be a rocket scientist in just one day? Well, a hobby rocket scientist anyways! The field of hobby rocketry is huge, ranging from $5 mini starters to multi-thousand dollar custom made giants that can fly thousands and thousands of feet. Today we’ll show you enough to get you up in the air and crashing in no time! More here: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/07/sylvias_super_awesome_mini_maker_sh.html
Learn photography inside an enormous pinhole camera
Whoever thought you could learn about cameras while sitting inside a camera? Luxembourg-based Flash007 holds photography workshops inside an awesome custom trailer that doubles as an oversized camera obscura, which they call the Roulot’ographe. It reminds me of Sol Cinema, the movie theater trailer featured in MAKE Volume 25. [via Springwise]
Moroccan Boucherouite Rugs
Berber-Arts has a nice little collection of images of Moroccan rag rugs, called boucherouite – from the Moroccan Arabic bu sherwit, “a piece torn from pre-used clothing.” I like the look of the slightly shaky geometric patterns.
Quilled Wedding Certificate
I love the design of this quilled wedding certificate. Mine is stuck away in a filing cabinet, but this is one you’d want framed and on display! What a great idea–the chandelier is just gorgeous, and quilling is the perfect medium for it.
How-To: Origami Heart Lollipop Valentines
Jessica of Zakka Life shows you how to fold up a sweet origami heart and use it as a lollipop wrapper, perfect for Valentine’s Day!
Daisy-chained history o’ printers make artist’s book
Cory writes on Boing Boing: Xavier Antin’s installation piece “Just in Time” uses four devices spanning 100 years of desktop printing to generate a rather lovely book; each printer’s output is the input for the next one down the line. Just in Time, or A Short History of Production
