Hey food makers, don’t forget that we have our Cooking for Geeks giveaway going on. The eligible comments close at midnight tonight PDT (3am EDT). To be eligible for one of the two books we’re giving away, all you have to do is tell us a little about your desktop dining habits and share some […]
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Homemade “Pop Tarts”, with recipe, by djwtwo, Birds and Flowers, by Rachel Ford James, and pulltab brooch red, by Freya Willemoes-Wissing.
Highlights from this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup include a solar-powered turntable, a lovely shot of a justifiably proud potter’s first wheel-thrown pots, a fantastically hare-brained concept sketch of a rocking chair with what appears to be a jet engine, and what may well be my favorite picture of Matt Richardson ever.
Cathe of Just Something I Made shares her brilliant solution for organizing loads of ribbon scraps with this drapery ring cup hook yardstick organizer. I love that it’s not only highly functional, but also creates a really colorful backdrop on the wall!
Normally, ultra slow motion video requires very expensive cameras and lots of light. Using an unconventional method reminiscent of Eadweard Muybridge’s Sallie Gardner at a Gallop, Destin from Smarter Every Day caught slow motion video of a bullet coming out of a gun. Since that particular fast action is easily repeatable, he was able to […]
Artist David Wasserman painstakingly cuts shapes from tin cans, soda cans and other metal packaging, then nails them to plywood to create detailed art pieces. This portrait of an immigrant family makes beautiful use of rust. From the artist’s website: “Around the turn of the 20th century, immigrants were said to believe that the streets […]
As you know, I’m a big Herman Miller fan. When I saw this Plastolux tutorial on how to restore found Eames shell chairs, I was in heaven.
