When you think of fire art, you likely think of art on the desert playa or the Flaming Lotus Girls at Maker Faire. Here’s some fire art worthy of a gallery setting (think of that call to the insurance company). These pieces were presented as part of the 2011 Combustion Art Competition Awards, held at a recent meeting of the Combustion Institute.
Image by Lajos Geenen, Readymade There’s a good reason why pegboard has been around forever, and is such a common solution for organizing tools. It’s inexpensive, easily painted, and so simple to customize with a variety of readily-available hooks. DIY Life has a nice round-up of ways to use pegboard for crafty and cooking storage. […]
Wow! I love these toilet-paper roll creatures from El Hada de Papel, a trilingual (!) blog about crafting with kids. These couldn’t be easier–assuming, of course, that you’re capable of drawing quirky owls, cats, dogs, or anything else with pointy ears. (Via Swiss Miss.)
Project White Star, those intrepid souls trying to fly a weather balloon across the Atlantic, built an excellent helical antenna to be featured as part of their next payload. (The one pictured above is not their final antenna, but one of the experimental ones.) After the scrub on the launch pad for flight attempt A, […]
I can’t wait to get my hands on a set of these new stamps coming out from the United States Postal Service – Pioneers of American Industrial Design. Many of the items featured are antiques and collectibles you might have in your own home. I’m particularly excited to see Gilbert Rohde’s, former design director for […]
Rob’s recent post over at Boing Boing drew my attention to Ren Ng’s startup, Lytra, which is developing a digital imaging technology that requires no moving parts to focus an image at any depth of field–even infinite. It’s called “light field” photography, and, besides eliminating failure-prone moving assemblies from cameras, it will let you refocus your pictures however you want, as many times as you want, after they’ve already been taken.
Black and white checkerboard floors are classic and you can create them without setting a single tile. I transformed my tile entry way with paint and you can too!
