The detail and delicacy of these cut leaves from Nature’s Art is stunning. Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. […]
Check out the original Super Soaker, the world’s first push-button and cellular telephones, the Moog synthesizer prototype, and the first Atari and Apple computers in this annotated photo gallery over at Wired. [via Boing Boing]
Think Reactable from Björk’s Volta tour meets Revenge of the Nerds jam band meets a steel drum playing organ grinder. That about sums up this fabulous technobusker apparatus that’s sure to attract numerous patrons.
When I mentioned to Chris Hackett, director of Madagascar Institute, that I’d have a bum knee during World Maker Faire NY, he offered to “get the Rascal Cycle working” for me. He did indeed, and I rode it from my station in the CRAFT booth to my demo performances on the opposite side of the […]
Curbly editor, and ManMadeDIY blogger, Chris Gardner has a cool post up about transforming an old patio table into a large jewelry organizer. I think I’d have to use a banquet table to get all my jewels in one place…
Lisa Gansky on BoingBoing writes: LA public art project, Fallen Fruit, started by mapping public fruit–fruit trees growing in or over public property. Since then, the interests of this Meshy project “have expanded from mapping public fruit to include Public Fruit Jams in which we invite the citizens to bring homegrown or public fruit and […]
My dad is a huge fan of Jell-o, and we’d always rolled our eyes a little about it, but clearly he’s not the only one who sees its possibilities. Liz Hickok creates incredible jellied cityscapes, lit from below and true to scale, giving gritty city streets a fantastical, magical twist. While she mostly photographs her […]
