David Shuff reports on the 2011 New York Comic Con: While superheroes, video games, toys, and all things anime abounded on the show floor, a few stalwart crafters were sprinkled in the mix, proudly displaying their handmade creations.
The process Merrilee of Mer Mag uses to create these adorable Halloween paper mache puppets could be applied to any design or season, making it a great project to create over and over again. Get the full tutorial over on her blog.
Polish street artist NeSpoon turns lace into lovely and haunting pieces of public art. Instead of being creepy, her webs bring a whimsical quality to the spaces they occupy, and look both completely at home and entirely unexpected. You can see her older work on her blog, and some of her more recent installations here. […]
Heather of Dragonfly Designs shares a series of extensive step-by-step photo instructions for making several Angry Birds Halloween costumes. They are sized for a family to wear, but can be adjusted to fit an all-adult or all-child group. Seeing a whole pack of Angry Birds and green pigs going down the street on Halloween would […]
John Wilson of Minneapolis, MN, created the Stella Amp, his own twist on the cigar box amp. The Stella Amp is a portable battery powered guitar amplifier! Perfect for making your own mini-practice amp, cigar box amplifier, headphone amplifier, or any other kind of battery powered amplifier you can think of. Engineered for a good […]
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about color pairings. I’ve found some nice watercolor color wheels out there, and this embroidered color wheel by Rene Creates is pretty awesome. Do you have any favorite color-related websites? I like Kuler and Color Collective.
It rolls on tracks instead of walking, but this ditch-witch style tracked chassis retrofit with a pair of giant waldos is pretty much the power loader from Aliens. This video showing it in action is a great news segment from Ed Yeates of Utah’s KSL-TV, right up to the point where they start talking about the system as an “equalizer” opening up jobs to women “that might’ve otherwise been closed just based on strength issues.”
