How-To: Fabric Day of The Dead Skulls
Shawnee of Life With Monkey shares a simple pattern and instructions for sewing up cute Day of the Dead skulls. It would be fun to whip up a whole batch and then get friends together to decorate them all!
Shawnee of Life With Monkey shares a simple pattern and instructions for sewing up cute Day of the Dead skulls. It would be fun to whip up a whole batch and then get friends together to decorate them all!
Porcelain Pistol by … The Porcelain Pistols are replicas of James Bond’s Walther PPK and its contemporary sister, the P99,with friendly permission of Carl Walther Inc.The fragile weapon, hand-painted in the style of classic tableware motifs, liesnext to your coffee and cake, asking to be picked up. Its coolness andcomfortable grip increase the qualms of […]
Subscriber RocketGuy tipped us off to this EPFL School of Engineering project involving a fleet of swarming flying robots. Using an ant-inspired swarming algorithm running on a Linux SBC, this network of swarming micro air vehicles is purportedly the largest of its kind.
MeeGo running on the Nexus One. As agreeable as Android can be, it’s nice to know that there’s a formidable alternative on the horizon.
Instructables user LongToe, inspired by design student John Hobson, borrowed tools and techniques from plywood kayak construction to make this beautiful laminated Baltic birch bicycle frame. Best of all, he shows us how.
OK, so this video from YouTuber beachj0 includes no explanation, but my belief is that there are one or more cylindrical magnets embedded in the plastic bait worms (possibly by casting them in place using the DIY bait molds commonly sold to fisherman), and several more magnets attached to a platter rotating beneath the table. A simple effect, but strikingly creepy. [via Propnomicon]
Tilt-Shift Van Gogh via Waxy. The visually stunning field of tilt-shift photography became a fairly big thing in the Web a couple of years ago. It uses a special lens that gives a real-world scene the illusion of being a miniature model. You’ve probably seen examples by now, but if not then see the “Credits” […]