Threadbanger’s Macrame Planter
Our friends over on Threadbanger are always serving up DIY realness with their projects. I love that their spin on a macrame planter involves bold colors and GOLD.
Photography & Video
The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
DIY Bullet Time Using a Ceiling Fan
The original “bullet time” special effect from the Matrix was created with a series of cameras in a circle, each triggered in turn. Jeremiah Warren built a rig out of a single GoPro camera and a ceiling fan that creates the same effect.
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!
DIY Macrame Hanging Planter
Refinery 29 is an epic site for all things fashion, home decor, and thankfully DIY! Their latest video explores the very fun macrame moment that is happening right now and I am excited about it.
The Makers of Things
There’s something about Britain, it’s the land of God’s own hobbyists. The Makers of Things is a short film collection by Anne Hollowday documenting the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. While today we hackerspaces, makerspaces and fab labs, back in the 1800’s they had the learned society.
Knitted Bohemian Wedding Inspiration
This bohemian wedding featured on Ruffled Blog is giving me some serious inspiration. That back-drop is out-of-control rad and every crafty girl needs a pom pom headdress moment.
How-To: LED Photo Lights
What do you use to light small objects you’re trying to photograph? MAKE contributing editor and author of the bestselling Make: Electronics book Charles Platt found that electronic flash is overkill and photo lights are too bulky and hot, so he built an array of miniature LED photo lights and shared the how-to with us in MAKE Volume 34.