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.
Rachel @ CRAFT explains: More than 450 DIY movie makers participated in reenacting Star Wars by creating their own versions of 15-second slices of the film that have been spliced back together as Star Wars Uncut, making it the largest crowd-sourced film effort of all time. Casey Pugh sliced the film into into segments and […]
I love Caleb Charland‘s geeked-out photography. His work, in essence, consists of scientific experiments explored on film — magnets, electricity, fluid dynamics — all beautiful. My process and choice of subject matter stems from growing up in a do-it-yourself household where I learned to appreciate the power that tools and materials hold. As I explore […]
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw:
I lived in a rental years ago that had a water tower on the property. Each year barn owls nested in the eaves of the water tower, and each year my husband and I spent many evenings sitting nearby watching them. We saw babies learn to fly, mother and father swoop in and out with […]
While waiting patiently for what is likely the galaxy’s slowest turbolift, spacefaring duo Metalmags (Erica Magrey) & The Alien Ambassador (Collin Cunningham) take a casual stroll through the seams of their own chroma-keyed reality – in search of an answer to that age-old question, “Why are we here?”
Read more on how the vid was made –
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/04/collins_lab_diy_sci-fi.html
This post over at Hack N Mod is titled “World’s Most Stunning Data Centers.” In point of fact, only two are mentioned, but the photos are pretty stunning. Shown uppermost, the Skynet system core Microsoft Chicago Data Center (of which more and better pictures are available here), and immediately above, the Stockholm facilities of Bahnhof, one of Sweden’s largest ISPs, which are located in a Cold War-era underground nuclear shelter. A video tour is available here.
As a designer, I am endlessly enchanted by letterforms, especially non traditional ones made from surprising sources. Last year I stumbled upon and fell in love with We Make Words, a fabulous photoblog (or phlog, if you like) comprised of Amy and Luci who state: “We like words. And we like arranging objects. And we […]
