Month: June 2012

Stair-Navigating Skateboard

Stair-Navigating Skateboard

Po-Chih Lai’s Stair Rover is designed to traverse stairs as easily as flat surfaces. The piece aims to expanding the capability and possibility of extreme sports as we understand them. Inherited from our natural instincts, sliding as children and snowboarding as adults, the focus is on one of the most influential and stimulating sports – […]

Decapitated Rat Head Catnip Toy

Decapitated Rat Head Catnip Toy

Artist Heather Muise crocheted a decapitated rat head and filled it with catnip in order to create a delightfully macabre cat toy. This probably seems totally normal to the cat. She also made a severed finger catnip toy, but I’m not sure that sends a message to the cat that I’m entirely comfortable with. More: […]

How-To: Extract and Process Natural Clay

How-To: Extract and Process Natural Clay

This two-part series from Eddie Starnater of Practical Primitive shows you how to extract the clay from raw soil and process it into a material that can be used for pottery. In the first part, Eddie teaches a simple water extraction process that uses a series of mixing and decanting steps to remove sand and silt, followed by pouch filtration to remove excess water. In part two…