Made On Earth — Speak Your Mind
If you’re walking through your local park and happen upon a device looking like something out of Yellow Submarine with loud random voices blaring from it, you’ve found Daniel Jolliffe’s “One Free Minute.”
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.
Tea Leaves — Wabi-Sabi
The Japanese have a deep appreciation for things humble and handmade.
Make Your Own Paper
Make your own paper by recycling newspaper or old paper. Embellish them with pressed flower petals or add some color with crushed grass. From this, you’ll be able to create all kinds of neat craft projects like handmade journals or cards. Just in time for handmade holiday gifts. Thanks Rick! Link.
Film Jockey
Combining live performance with old film gets Julie Meitz back to her roots.
HOW TO – Vintage Polaroid camera modding
Mark writes “Here’s how to convert old obsolete 1950’s era Polaroid 110a cameras into semi-proffesional, full manual, large format work horses. The site describes the process of converting these cheap old cameras to accept easily available modern pack film. There are lo-fi methods and is mainly directed toward poor starving photographers or college students who can not afford a Litman 45 single.” Link.
DIY Telecine
Giles writes “Step by step, do it yourself, super 8 telecine – How to make Super 8 movies into digital files for the cost of an old projector, a big lens and some bits from the local electronics store!” Link.
How Halloween candy is made (video)
Candy Addict writes “A blog from The National Association of Manufacturers where they post videos of things being manufactured commercially. There are some really interesting videos!” Here’s a post (with video) on how the Just Born candy company makes their treats. Link.