Today most of us CRAFT ladies are going to the Women in Periodical Publishing Women’s Leadership Conference in San Francisco. Natalie and I will be giving a presentation on online video, and Goli will be sitting on the diversity panel. We’re excited to spend the day with other strong women in media.
I’m utterly charmed by these fun colorful silhouettes from Katie Sokoler of Color Me Katie. Las summer, she shared how to create silhouettes in more interesting poses than the classic profile view of the face. Her twist on doing everything with colored paper really makes me smile. Enjoy!
Touchscreen and computer vision interfaces are slowly starting to replace the traditional game controllers in next generation systems. Today’s Wiimote will be tomorrow’s joystick. Speaking of joysticks, the guys over at Retro Thing are producing some pretty cool classic Atari-style joysticks using clear plastic and a USB interface.
Here on Make: Online, we’ve featured lots of projects that use electrolumiscent wire, like the barbershop pole, the sequencing costume, and the angler fish. EL wire is a really flexible (pun intended) way to add lighting to your projects, and it’s fairly easy to use. In the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 21, we offer […]
There are some great quotes in here: “I never learned anything. I have a 5th grade education.” “I made this submarine because I have a lot of creative ideas.” “I made this to appeal to someone who can back me up and give me a helping hand.” “I seldom use a ruler. Everything is based […]
Earlier this week I posted a Flashback to Eric Smilie’s sourdough bread tutorial that first appeared on the pages of CRAFT Volume 04. Visiting Eric’s site, Awesome Pickle, I found this great tutorial on how to make pickled herring. As a bonus, he included pictures and directions on the proper way to fillet fish. Thanks, […]
The Free Art & Technology Lab is going to Berlin for the Transmediale festival next week, and in preparation for rolling in style, I’ve worked up a tutorial for appliqueing letters across the hood, including a downloadable patten for the letters. The crew will be workshopping this project at the festival, and I’ll Skype in […]
