Did mousetrap ever work?
Apparently, no one in comedy group The Station was able to get the game working when they were kids.
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Get your smash on at “sport” bottle recycling center
When I was still living in Dallas, our local recycling center included a giant steel dumpster, open at only one end, with an elevated platform you could climb up to chuck your glass bottles in. I was in high school, then, and it was pretty common, when we were bored, to go down there on the weekend and pass an hour or so smashing glass bottles into the dumpster just for the fun of it. You’d see “grown-ups” there doing the same thing, and more than once perfectly “respectable” suburban adults would see what we were up to and join in, which inevitably put a big grin on everybody’s face. I’m sure this kind of impromptu bottle-breaking game happens naturally at recycling centers all over the world.
Open call to digital artists for NYC show
Nick Normal writes in to share this awesome opportunity for all you digital artists: Blue Box Gallery – a popup gallery named after a classic phreaking tool – is currently seeking submissions for a multi-work digital art installation. Blue Box are seeking digital artworks for display on a massive 220 sq. ft. LED screen! All […]
Maker Faire: Flaming Lotus Girls Soma
Photograph by George Schaller The Flaming Lotus Girls (FLG) are no strangers to Maker Faire Bay Area, the world’s largest DIY festival, taking place on May 22nd and 23rd at the San Mateo Fairgrounds. This crew of creative and talented makers has participated in the annual fair since 2007, and this year they’re bringing an […]
How-To: Insulin pump fashion
Jessica Floeh has been developing Hanky Pancreas, an empowering fashion line designed around insulin pumps (for type 1 diabetics). She made a tutorial to get you started on your own: This tutorial will show you how to make a simple piece inspired by my transformative fashion collection, Hanky Pancreas . The current collection is for […]
Featured Maker: Michele Banks
Washington, DC artist Michele Banks, aka Artologica, is a painter who, in her own words, “uses an old and often-disrespected medium, watercolor, to create pieces that are anything but old-fashioned.” Her works in Makers Market focus on biological and medical themes, particularly the microscopy of living cells. Shown above is Cell Division Blue 1, a 12 x 9″ canvas executing using a special “wet-on-wet” painting technique.
Breathing table lamp
A functional piece of kinetic art from Jaems Coury. Shown here is number five in a limited series of hand-made lamps.