Kid powered ferris wheel
The Washington Post has a “Day in photos” feature that is usually stunning and surreal – like this one from Adif Hassan, a homemade ferris wheel in a trash heap in Pakistan – [via / via] – Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Meet Syuzi Pakhchyan of SparkLab
Syuzi Pakhchyan, pictured here from eTech, is a media designer and tinkerer working and residing in LA. Her studio, SparkLab, lives in the intersection between culture, craft, and technology. Weaving electric circuitry with craft, SparkLab carves out a space for the cultural production of technologically crafted artifacts. You’ll be able to meet Syuzi at the […]
Tomato soup battery and more – art by Ben Woodeson
New Maker-art crush, Ben Woodeson – “Variations on scientific methodology, energy and electricity, my practice examines basic technology through crude experimentation. Systematically reinventing and cross fertilising, primitive attempts to re-use and re-examine that which is commonplace and everyday; A pan technical investigation with maximum effort for minimal achievement.” Thanks SicklyGirl!- Link. Pictured here, Mega Drive, […]
HOW TO – Circuit-Bent Big Mouth Billy Bass
Dosser writes – “Remember those fake fish mounted on a plaque that flopped about and sang “Take Me To The River” and “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”? Well, here’s your chance for revenge.” – Link. Related: Circuit Bending. Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you’ve […]
The great LadyBug animation
We profiled Natalie Jeremijenko in MAKE 02 (toxic sensing robot dogs) – and here’s some of her latest work, amazing animations showing the variety of the lady bug “200 individual labybugs selected from a population of approximately four thousand, become the frames in an animation. The ladybug images are scaled, color corrected and ordered by […]
PixelRoller – Digital paint roller
rAndom writes – “PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the […]
Paper Pixels
Aram Bartholl’s Paper Pixels – “Paper Pixels is a 30 inch, 8 x 8 pixel, manually controlled screen. Each of the 64 pixels is illuminated steadily by a light bulb. Apart from the light bulbs, no further electronic parts are used. The display is controlled by a long paper strip – the data medium – […]