How-To: Recycling Awareness Ribbons
Swiss Miss features this video tutorial from Swiss designer, Mayari, for making your own Recycling Awareness Ribbons from aluminum cans. Just be sure to watch for sharp edges! [ via DudeCraft ]
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Over-the-Socket Toothbrush Holder
Lacking shelf space in your bathroom? I know I am! Hannah Perner-Wilson made this plug-in shelf that is basically just a little hanging apparatus over an outlet-extender. Rad!
Cellular Mitosis
Phil @ MAKE points us to this art piece by Kevin Van Aeist called Cellular Mitosis (krispy kreme) from 2005. Mmmm, delicious biology!
Live at the Handcar Regatta
The scene along the tracks was controlled chaos, with equal parts corsets and mustaches. Hand built mechanical wonders flew down the tracks, drag race style, and my team and car, the Bumpin’ Contraption finished 4th!
Stained glass pixel art
I dunno if these pixel art stained glass windows I stumbled upon in Gary in Cleveland’s Flickr stream are his original work or not, but I dig ’em. Can anyone confirm authorship?
How-To: Sculpt open eyes on lifecast heads
Keeping your eyes open during a life-casting of your face is probably impossible and in any case is certainly a very bad idea. So life-cast heads always have closed eyes. YouTuber brickintheyard, affiliated with BITY Mold Supply, has provided a great video tutorial on how to sculpt those eyes back open.
How-To: Cast cheap foam skulls
There’s Jake, there’s Elwood, and there’s Dr. Kreepy. In this video he shows you how to cast cheap prop skulls by blowing canned expanding foam from the hardware store into a blow-molded plastic master. Good stuff. Wear work clothes!