When we launched Make: Projects, our how-to wiki, a year and a half ago, we wanted to free all the great projects from the over 25 volumes of MAKE by offering them up on the site. That way, folks could check them out even if they didn’t have the issues of MAKE the projects came […]
While New York City is known more for its “Silicon Alley” start-ups, showrooms for just about every major technology company, and of course the boogie-woogie lights of Broadway and Times Square, there’s another – older and often unseen – side to the city of five boroughs.
“Les Trois Inventeurs” (“The Three Inventors”) is a beautiful 1980 papercut animation film about a family of inventors that build amazing machines but are misunderstood by others. It’s the story of an encounter between the soaring joy of creativity and the destructive nature of fear. In one scene, the father glides elegantly through the air […]
Martha Stewart’s paper lanterns are such a breath of fresh air.
Add shaping to garments without creating a full lining with this facing tutorial from Kate at See Kate Sew. If you’ve never sewn a facing, you should definitely try it. I use them all the time on the necklines and waistbands of my own sewing projects, and it really gives them a great professionally finished […]
Dennis Manarchy seeks to capture these “Vanishing Cultures” before they disappear, using his handmade 35′ long, 12′ tall, and 8′ wide camera, whose bellows and body resemble an old view camera.
What is more dapper than a dude in suspenders? Make your own as seen on A Beautiful Mess.
