This photo has been on Apartment Therapy before and I LOVE the concept. Taking an old (or new for that matter) photograph and making it an entire wall. Brilliant. This classic black and white photo works so well. Recently on Oh Dee Doh, Apartment Therapy’s sister site for little ones.
On today’s O’Reilly Radar, Alex Howard has a really nice write up about Dale being recognized by the White House yesterday. The piece includes a brief interview with Dale and an embed of the streamed event at the White House conference center.
November 5, 2011 is the 66th anniversary of the first FM transmission in 1935 from Yonkers, NY, by Carmen “Randy” Runyon W2XAG. On Saturday, a network of Tesla special event ham radio stations will be on the air helping to raise awareness of the effort to purchase the Wardencyffe laboratory and restore it into a science museum.
Congratulations time! Last week we posted a red scarf project excerpted from the book Craft Activism by Joan Tapper. This post also included a book giveaway, in which 3 lucky winners were randomly chosen from nearly 100 comments. So let’s give a big hand to Tamara Thomas, Sara Davis, and Pete Leih, who will each […]
Mr. X Stitch points us to this unbelievable cross stitched portrait of Bea Arthur by Adam Jon Moore. The detail is so astonishing that, at first glance, it almost looks like a photograph. I’m amazed by how much he was able to capture with just tiny Xs. Check out the detail in her hand!
There are a few efforts right now to try and get a list of all the open-source hardware, I think that might be impossible at this point – so lists of specific types (like music) sounds like an attainable goal :)
Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn talks about the value of handmade, and how that extends to his line of kitchen knives that he builds in his studio in Brooklyn, New York. Joel was a writer by trade who, after taking a three month sabbatical, found the desire to make things instead. He worked with wood, made jewelry, and eventually ended up making hunting knives.
