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Here’s a photo from pmtorrone (me) uploaded to Flickr and posted to our Makezine.com blog. I think it’s going to work out now. Let’s see. Click the image for a larger view.

Update: Thank you for all the responses, we found our AZ makers! We (were) looking for a Maker in AZ to be interviewed by a local paper. You can be a Make subscriber, Maker contributor or Make-pal. The image is the Arizona state flag, I really like it- who knew it was that cool.

There’s quite a bit of POV (Persistence of vision) projects lately. Most POV projects are a series of LEDs (lights) blinking and when moved produce a word- it’s the same “hack” when you play 30 frames a second to see a movie. A couple years ago I made a pair of shoes that spelled “NIKE” when you run (View image) and when I get time, they’ll display speed too. If you’re interested in the POV “movement” here are a few great examples to get started. Drewish’s 2-sided pov toy, Lady Ada’s minipov and Make pal EverythingDigital’s recent posts using off the shelf parts.

PSP Video 9 is a free tool that will manage and convert video files to play on your PlayStation Portable. The cool part is- you can add Videora and using RSS, and BitTorrent subscribe to video feeds. While this is just another example of podcasting, videocasting, etc… the really interesting thing here is that many portable devices capable of playing audio and video are hitting the market with applications that can automatically grab and convert stuff you want from the cloud using RSS and BitTorrent. Music, Audiobooks, eBooks, how-to videos, movies, TV, it’s all starting to really happen.

There are a lot of super interesting and super-odd plans as well as fully assembled Sci-Fi type projects over on Future Horizons. Before I click on through to the purchase side, has anyone ever ordered a set of plans from them, how were they?

I keep a sketch book (here) of my artwork but I’ve been looking to make my own for bigger drawings. This how-to shows you how to turn those old vinyl albums in to sketchbooks and you can of course extend that to other types of notebooks or books. Most garage sales have a variety of weird albums that are perfect for this sort of project.

English cut is a blog from Thomas Mahon, Bespoke Savile Row Tailor, London. I’ve been reading Thomas’s site since Hugh McLeod dropped it on me. Clive Thomson from Slate properly identified why I think it’s so appealing… “After all, suits have many of the things that geeks particularly appreciate: Intense levels of engineering, an obsession with structural elegance, physics, totally wicked gear that’s used to create them, topographic geometry, and materials science that burrows right down to chemistry and – these days – nanotechnology. And when it comes to ties, my god, you’ve got the most awesomely realized application of knot theory on the planet”.