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CRAFT Flickr photo pool member Mommy Peace made a few nice bags from recycled materials and stenciled them on up… – Link. Related: Recycled sweater bags – Link. POSCH – Reusable shopping bags – Link. Super Eggplant’s Tote Bags 101 – Link. Bags made from recycled skateboads – Link.
Arist Lee Stoetzel made these beautiful huge wood vehicles from Pecky Cypress… [via] – Link. Related wood transportation: Chopper 2004 (for sale too) – Link. Wood Motorcycle – Link. Rwanda wooden bikes – Link. Homemade wooden coaster bike – Link. Wooden Cadillac – Link. Unusual Home Built Bicycles from wood and salvage – Link. Wooden […]
SRLworld has an interesting camera accessory, since it requires a SLR camera, I’m guessing you activate it via the extend-o-pole or something… Great for short folks/peeping toms/paparazzi… (cost seems to be $58) – “With the Slik “S pole digital” you can capture shots from over fences and above barricades, and never be limited by crowds. […]
There’s still time to rock out our weekend project – This weekend, make your own GPV. Grocery Powered Vehicles are contraptions that you can make with materials that you can find at your local grocery store. In this podcast, I teach you how to make a simple hovercraft, bearingless motor, and dirigible. – Link. Click […]
I really like these can-art light sculptures from artist John T Unger, great re-use/recycle of old cans… – “What I enjoy about making the CANtern luminaries is the way they allow me to think in the exact opposite way I do when I make fences or sculpture… When you’re welding steel together, all the lines […]
Ken sent in this hand painted band-aid skateboard, he writes – “I had an urge to put together a skateboard and had this idea for deck art. Irony comes together with a cheap blank deck and some paint. “ – Link. SKATE @ MAKE: Spotted on the Playa – Self-balancing skateboard – Link. Skateboard Slingshot […]
Retro Thing has the history and some links to these amazing animated records, seems like you could do this with a CD player if you modded the heck out of it (would be worth it!) or just get a record and start experimenting… – “These were cardboard children’s records with the animation printed right onto […]
