Corset Making
Here’s a decorative corset you can make with things around your house from a plastic bin, duct tape, old t-shirt, and some non-stretchy fabric. Link.
Craft & Design
From traditional crafts to modern crafts, we’re covering news and interesting projects to educate you and keep you inspired. Design trends and pop culture related projects are here to inspire.
Tension Thing
Judith Fegerl’s haie raising ceramic sphere – “20cm long human hair is embedded into the ceramic sphere. The object is charged by a high voltage generator (about 120-200kVolts) and the embedded hair is standing upwards due to the electromagnetic field. Rhythmical it slowly charges and discharges.” [via] – Link.
Balloon art
Drawn rounds up Jason Hackenwerth’s balloon art – Thanks Chuck! Littlejohn Contemporary – Link. The Proposition – Link. Site projects – Link. Savannah College of Art and Design – Link.
Nabaztag dashboard widget
Gravity Girl writes – “Well, I first saw a nabaztag here, and had to have one. When it finally arrived, I cracked open the API and started playing with it. Here, after a weekend or so of work (because javascript isn’t my language of choice) is a dashboard widget for macintosh users to put in […]
Animatronic flesh shoe
Adam Brandejs made a really cool animatronic flesh franken-shoe controlled by a MP3 player – “The shoe is stitched together with multiple pieces of latex rubber cast out of moulds made from my own skin. The shoe’s toe and heel raise and lower as it occasionally vibrates/pulsates, and twitches on the floor as if it […]
Shoe kit, sorta
I really like these DIY “over” shoes from artist Eelko Moorer. [via] – Link.
Knit Cord Maker
Betz White shows you how to use this cool crafty gadget, the Magicord Knitter (looks like now called Embellish-Knit) which lets you crank the handle and knit a long cord in an instant. Betz then felts the cord to embellish her projects like this felt tea cup pin cushion. Link.