In high school I used to steal large sheets of grid paper from the drafting room flat files and spend hours, if not weeks, meticulously coloring in each square with a seemingly random selection of colors. It was like therapy. So you can imagine my delight when this turned up in my inbox. Geometric color grid explosion!
Just in time for lunch packing season, Mollie from Wild Olive teamed up with Tara at Sew Tara to make these wonderful embroidered snack bags! I’m always a serious sucker for anything that’s properly labeled, so the item-specific embroidery on each bag really makes my day. Click here to check out the snack bag tutorial, […]
In the Spring of 2011, I worked on a project with artists Steve Hanson and Elliot Clapp that was part of Apexart’s “Let it end like this” group show, curated by Todd Zuniga. Steve created a generative questionnaire that polled gallery-goers and presented them with their Last Words.
Looking for that classy Dr. Who touch? Simon Jansen made TARDIS cufflinks from an N-scale model train Police Box. It just took some light metalworking (basically using a razor saw) and painting, and the cufflinks nicely match his TARDIS MAME console.
Community-learning offering Skillshare lets folks teach just about anything their heart desires. When I saw this posting offering a “A Sock Monkey Madness” class, I was instantly sad Detroit is so far away from San Francisco. If you could teach a class, what would you offer? Photo via Zen Cupcake
HP if you’re going to kill it, open source it – or at least consider giving it away, just like google is doing with Android. On a related note, there will be about 250,000 HP tablet flooding the market, below cost soon. It will be interesting to see what makers do with them.
I want to buy, like, 100 of these interlocking motion-responsive LED modules from EMSL and cover an entire wall in my house with them. Unfortunately I can’t afford to do so at the moment, either in terms of money for that many kits or in terms of time to solder them together.
(Sigh.)
Oh well, maybe one of you can do it and post some nice video so I can live vicariously.
