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.
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Secret Wall Tattoos
I always thought hotel rooms were under utilized gallery spaces for artists, local artists could hang their art and the hotel could get a commission. Artists would promote and encourage people to stay and these hotels. Perhaps someone will do that one day, but for now- it seems Secret Wall Tattoos might be the first (unwanted) entry in to the hotel art arena. Hidden wall art, roll the mouse over the gallery images to see them. Link.
Empty Zippos OK on Planes
Zippo has some hardcore lobbyists! You can now bring empty Zippos on planes, at least in checked luggage that is. I’ve been following this Zippo thing pretty closely since I use a Zippo shaped camera and those aren’t allowed. The little camera has a cool mode that will take photos on a timed basis so when I travel I like to have it take time-lapse pictures out the window while I am gone. Link.
E3 Audio
Major Nelson has posted the audio from Xbox 360 keynote briefing here. Also, Popular Science is podcasting from the E3 gaming expo- they’ll be publishing a podcast (MP3 audio program) each day this week. They’re interviewing people, have some commentary and they’re singing too. Link. If you want to see some photos that go along with this too, here are the e3 tagged photos on Flickr.
Retropod Photo Shoot
Photo shoot with Consuelo and Oraia in July(?) of 2004. Launched retropod.com a couple of days afterwards, then got a cease-and-desist from Sony six weeks later. Sony was worried that the Retropod would confuse consumers: “Moreover, they will be misled into thinking that Sony is backward in its design of products and is going away from miniaturization, as the size of the tape player housing is quite large by today’s standards.” Link.
Sonic Clothing Projects, Resources, DIY
Peter “Musical Pants” Kirn has a round up of sonic clothing, projects and resources on wearable, interactive clothing with integrated electronics that respond to or generate sound. Musical gloves, Denim Synth jackets, noise shirt and sonic dresses, sensor shoes and more. Link.
DIY High-Altitude Ballooning
These fellows made their own high-altitude balloons to take photos using a Dakota Digital camera, a Hi-Value Radio PocketTracker, two latex balloons from Kaymont and a parachute from Public Missiles. They also found a closeout on DigiTraveler GPSes from RadioShack. The balloon made it up to 52,000 feet, the pictures are really neat. Link. Via /.
