I just love Owen Schuh’s Pythagorean Nightmare, an ornate painting machine that mixes the mechanical and electronic. Built from scrap wood and metal, a broken ladder, a hang-glider pole, numerous bicycle parts, a door, used chemistry equipment, solenoid valves, light sensors, an arduino micro-controller, window counterweights, and a non-alcoholic beer. The machine is driven by […]
Benjamin Parker will blow your mind with his origami tessellations. Pictured above is his Light Blue Tessellation, folded from one hexagonal sheet of dyed Zanders Elefantenhaut paper and sewn to a piece of mat board. Based in Connecticut, Benjamin has been making origami since he was 6 years old, and it shows. Check out the […]
Our new Bazaar is up focused on all things gardening, like these lovely herb garden plant markers by Nina Gibson Designs. (You can visit Bazaar or any of our other sections anytime via the gray sub-navigation above.) As an added treat today, Susan Beal brings us two great garden book reviews, Growing Vegetables West of […]
Billbergia nutans is the most unusual bromeliad I have ever seen. Named Queen’s Tears, this hearty plant is called one of the most commonly grown bromeliads by Wikipedia, but I think she is a rare beauty. I picked up my first Queen’s Tears from a Brazilian at the Sebastopol flea market 8 years ago, and […]
I have a confession to make. I love sweets. When this book Whoopie Pies: Does of Mix’em, Match ’em, Eat ’em Up Recipes came to my door, I jumped for joy. These little cakes with filling in the middle are like a cross between cupcakes and cookies. Whatever they really are, they look magical, no? […]
The kind folks at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY, write: Keep Calm and Wobble On. The Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition is back for a second year . . . because frankly, Jell-O hasn’t gone anywhere. It wobbles onward, come what may. Jell-O springs eternal. This year’s competition asks designers to explore […]
The kind folks at the Gowanus Studio Space in Brooklyn, NY, write: Keep Calm and Wobble On. The Gowanus Studio Space Jell-O Mold Competition is back for a second year . . . because frankly, Jell-O hasn’t gone anywhere. It wobbles onward, come what may. Jell-O springs eternal. This year’s competition asks designers to explore […]
