Exoskeleton costume
Mario Caicedo Langer just posted a bunch of pics to the Make: Flickr Pool showing off his “Battlizer.”
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24 Halloween Crafts in 24 Hours
Alexa from The Swell Life recently completed a 24 hour marathon of posting a Halloween craft an hour on her blog. Now she’s compiled all 24 crafts in to one post for easy browsing. Enjoy!
How-To: Create Faux Porcelain Pottery
P.S. I Made This shares a brilliant transformation of old vases, bottles and cans to faux porcelain pottery with the help of a little puffy paint and spray paint. [via @thingswemake on Twitter]
Big Bad Wolf Dog Costume
Halloween is clearly not just for humans. Down Under Dog Designs has some amazingly adorable dog costumes in their Etsy shop. My favorite is the Big Bad Wolf costume, custom-made to fit your dog’s exact measurements, whether your pooch be big like the one pictured above or little like the ones below.
Remote controlled shrieking spectre
This video by YouTuber electricunicycle, while dark, shows off a pretty sweet haunt prop he made by attaching a frame, fabric, and lighting to an electric wheelchair base he adapted for radio control.
NYC Papercraft show
Slash: Paper Under the Knife (warning: autoplay video) is the NYC Museum of Arts and Design’s third major exhibition, and if it’s anywhere near the quality of Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting or Pricked: Extreme Embroidery, it should be fantastic. One of my favorite book artists, Brian Dettmer, is involved, as well as many many […]
Ken Wallich’s Rok-Bak chair
MAKE reader Ken Wallich built a couple of versions (one shown above) of Larry Cotton’s Rok-Bak chair project from MAKE, Volume 19 and shared them with us. The Rok-Bak is an amazingly comfortable chair that’s easy to make and is built from a single sheet of plywood. Here’s what Ken had to say about the […]