When you’re a needlearts person, you can’t look at a material with holes in it without thinking, “Hey … I could stitch on that!” I’ve seen stitching on window screens, and I’ve stitched on peg boards, so I love seeing this front porch sign in progress over on Stitch-Cook-Grow-Love. Lily took metal mesh and stapled […]
Conceived as a simple way to record both sides of a conversation in a single shot for a documentary about love filmed in Paris, The Love Box has a name more likely to elicit a stare rather than a split screen. It achieves its effect using a single mirror mounted on a slide and rotated 16º from the camera.
Jon Danforth from Mini Maker Faire North Carolina wrote in to let us know that their call to makers is now open! Maker Faire North Carolina June 16, 2012 MAKER FAIRE: NORTH CAROLINA IS A CELEBRATION OF EVERYTHING MADE. Every year at Maker Faire North Carolina Makers, Crafters, Inventors, Evil Geniuses, Scientists and Artists come […]
Two young makers from Toronto, Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, both age 17, successfully sent a Lego minifig and four cameras to roughly 78,000 feet elevation on a homemade weather balloon. After a 97-minute flight, the balloon returned to Earth with great footage of the journey. Inspired by a similar project done by MIT students, […]
John of Quilt Dad has created this new block, “Modern Starlings,” for Generation Q. I like the fresh take for this piece – good inspiration for the new year!
HydroSpan 100, from Houston-based Industrial Polymers Corporation, is billed as “a 3 dimensional copy machine enlarging any shape or design in near perfect proportion and detail.” Shown uppermost, a Morgan silver dollar from 1896, enlarged via three generations of HydroSpan 100 casting to about the size of a salad plate. To use it, two components […]
I’ve been drooling over this massive collection of comic book covers that are part of the “Proof of Heroes” exhibit at Bear and Bird gallery in Florida. “Proof of Heroes” is a gallery exhibition featuring nearly 300 comic book cover printer’s proofs, spanning a decade (1964-1974) of Julius Schwartz’ 42 year run as Editor at […]
