Photo Montage of Japanese Craft Books
Ok we want every single one of these great Japanese craft books! Each photo is complete with ISBN number so you can try to find them through Amazon Japan, YesAsia.com or through the Japanese bookstore, Kinokuniya. (There’s a Kinokuniya in San Francisco’s Japan Town with lots of crafty books.) But just looking at all the covers is inspiration in itself because we aren’t sure we’d be able to read the directions! Link and more resources here.


Wow, this stereoscopic motion picture camera uses two Mac mini’s as its brain – “The built in recorder of the 3DVX3 is comprised of two extensively modified Apple Mac Mini computers. The compact size and CPU horsepower offered by the Mac Mini coupled with the power of Mac OS X make the 3DVX3 a truly unique camcorder. Flash memory modules replace hard drives in the Mac Minis for fast booting and reduced operating temperature.” [
Harvey writes “Where US Taxpayer’s have already bought the best equipment (Like $2,000 hammers) and you can pick up it up for a faraction of its original cost. Get electronics and test equipment, pumps and motors, battaries and computer equipment by the pallet! Buy entire pallets of parts at a time and make the impractical dream a reality! NOTE: Read the fine print and watch out for shipping costs!”
Jason from Preshrunk writes “The gang over at Vestal Design have made and documented a really killer bar made out of somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 discarded library books. Well, I know I’d totally make one if I had that many books laying around.”
Excellent set of photos of the construction of cigar box guitars from Pasque – “I am building guitars out of cigar boxes with my students. Here are some photos of the prototype I built at home (now updated with photos of my students’ guitars). I went begging and got a bunch of wooden fingerjointed cigar boxes. The fee… a photo of my students with their guitars, a fair trade. The project idea came from Make magazine
Slashdot has a post about Michael Golembewski’s homemade digital camera projects. He writes – “For the past three years, I’ve been taking apart cheap secondhand flatbed scanners and turning them into homemade large format digital cameras. They are well over 100 mexapixel in resolution, and produce results that are both similar to and significantly different from traditional digital and conventional cameras.” [