DIY Wedding Details
Your wedding is one of the most special and touching days of your life, making it the perfect time to bring personal, one-of-a-kind DIY elements into the mix.
Delia and Jeff’s wedding did just this and is featured in Ruffled.
Year: 2011
John Fluevog Needs Crafters!
I have absolutely adored John Fluevog shoes since I first discovered the ultra stylistic footwear in the 80s during a trip to Vancouver. Now there’s one more thing to love about them – they are calling on crafters to help fill their new vending machine! From their site: You remember the phone booth in Dr. […]
News From The Future: Augmented Reality Advertising Takeover
Public Ad Campaign and The Heavy Projects developed Augmented Reality Advertising Takeover. The augmented reality viewer runs on smart phones and virtually replaces outdoor ads with curated artworks by street artists Ron English, John Fekner, PosterBoy, Doctor D and Ox. Here’s a quick video.
Crafters, Hackers, and Hackerspaces
Where visions of crafting often conjure up images of glue guns, popsicle sticks, fabric and looms, hacking evokes soldering irons, microprocessors, and software. Truth is, there’s a lot of similarities between hacking and crafting, and even more to be gained from a dialogue between both groups of makers. Both hackers and crafters feel the same need to create things and manipulate materials, and have very similar basic requirements: access to equipment, space to work, and a supportive community within which to grow and share projects and ideas.
Take Back Halloween’s Costume Ideas
While I think it’s changing, for many years I approached Halloween with a chip on my shoulder due to the masses of scantily clad women in unimaginative costumes. (Yikes, I sound like my grandma!) At any rate, I love the suggestions for costumes based on historical figures from Take Back Halloween. It includes ideas and […]
Black Swan Halloween Make-Up
Another lovely, dark and fun Halloween costume idea is to go as Black Swan. Refinery 29 shows a really rad make-up tutorial that will help you master the look.
Welded Chain Sculpture
Remarkable art from Korean Young-Deok Seo, who works in many different types of chain, but always, it seems, with the human form as subject. The roller-chain piece shown here is but one of many beautiful examples, none of which have apparent titles, in the artist’s online portfolio.