Craft & Design

George Sanger’s homemade Leslie speaker — which he first built out of a punctured paint can and record player — taps a polyethylene drainage device to get a sound he describes as “one of the most organic, spacious, and beautiful there is.”

Throughout history, music has played an important role in our social, political, and religious rituals. It’s been used to express the most elusive of emotions and situations: love and loss, conquest and oppression, joy and mourning. You name it, there’s a piece of music that will fit it. And now, the music can fit you: Alyce Santoro has created a series of products that allow you to wear your music and listen to your clothes.

Now midlife crises don’t have to be quite as expensive. Ron Champion’s cult classic, Build Your Own Sports Car for as Little as £250, has spawned a host of clubs devoted to doing just that.

Back as far as 400 BC, catapults were used to hurl the vilest of projectiles: rocks, arrows, cow manure. But perhaps the most notorious missile of all may be … the fruitcake.

Artist David Best is known for his gigantic temple installations at Burning Man in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert; his latest was 115 feet tall, a quarter mile long, and visited by thousands.