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How To: Champagne Punch

Tomorrow I’m having brunch, and I’m going to walk down the hill in the morning to pick up some champagne for the meal. (I’ve got the sweetest little wine shop in my neighborhood!!) I love the look of Martha Stewart’s fruit filled champagne punch, and the recipe could not be easier. Cheers!

Annual Parade o’ Peeps

Annual Parade o’ Peeps

This year, it seems like everyone is getting in on the Peeps love (and Peeps abuse). There are now overwhelming numbers of Peeps-themed art shows, stop-motion movies, and all manner of grotesque Peeps experimentation. Do a search on YouTube and you could spend your entire day watching Peeps-themed programming. Er… but don’t do that. Get […]

TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop in NYC

TerraCycle’s Green Up Shop in NYC

In a previous CRAFT post, we introduced you to the new Terracycle Green Up Shop that’s happening this month in NY from our friend, Tiffany Threadgould of Replayground. The space is now open for business! Tiffany shares with us some photos of Green Up Shop which is a combination exhibition area and boutique shop which […]

Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around

Virtual 3D “fish tank” box has screens all around

The brilliant (if perhaps poorly named) pCubee from The University of British Columbia’s Human Communications Technology Lab is exactly what it appears to be–a box with flat screens on 5 sides. Both the user’s position and the orientation of the box are tracked to provide a real-time, perspective-corrected illusion of 3D forms “inside” the box. I want one with an impossible pet inside, like a baby Totoro or something. [via Geekologie]