Month: February 2010

(H)ear piercing

(H)ear piercing

These are concept shots of a hearing aid based out of a gauged ear piercing plug. From Core77: The Deafinite Style is a concept from Munich-based Designaffairs STUDIO that turns a hearing aid into a piece of jewelry, provided you’re up for a bit of lobe stretching to get started. The main advantage they propose […]

Valentine Gingerbread House

Kristy of Craftastica makes a great point in her post about this fun Valentine gingerbread house she made with her children. This year the girls and I decided to make gingerbread houses. Well, the holidays can sort of sneak up on a person, so we didn’t make them until after Christmas. That got me thinking, […]

SurfaceScapes 2.0 demo

Wolfgang Baur, former editor of the immortal D&D magazine DRAGON and current publisher of a new, independent D&D magazine Kobold Quarterly had a chance to play around with the second edition of MS Surface-based SurfaceScapes D&D game. There are a lot of cool developments, like being able to load your character sheet onto a smartphone […]

Trilo-femoral-mechnicus

Trilo-femoral-mechnicus

There’s plenty of bad found-object and “junk” sculpture in the world. I know because I made most of it myself. But Jud Turner, whose skeletal “Bio-Cycle” made some waves when we posted about it last year, does it right. He’s recently posted a bunch of new work to his website, e.g. the awesome mecha-trilobite shown above.