HOW TO – Make a Paper Gown and Dressform
Calamity Kim created this lovely paper mache dressform (and even a gown) for the Project Blogway challenge. She shares her tips on how she did it here.
Month: September 2008
HOW TO – ESD removal mouse
A simple and helpful idea – David added a ground contact to his mouse. I work a lot with ESD sensitive stuff – ICs, transistors and other devices. And that means – if I don’t wanna kill em all I need to discharge often – which is quite annoying. But I happen to work with […]
Making a glass cat
Another bit of maker zen in this glassblowing demonstration. The process’ flow seems quite similar to drawing and painting. [via Neatorama]
Instructables Faberge-Style Egg Contest
Now here’s an interesting contest over at Instructables: The brilliantly bejeweled Easter eggs of 19th century Russian artist Peter Carl Fabergé are a hallmark of miniaturist engineering and craftsmanship. Forbes magazine’s late, great publisher Malcolm Forbes was an avid Fabergé collector, building a set of eggs and objets d’art even a czar would envy. But […]
Unusual bugs from around the world
Trilobite beetle of Laos Mad Maxine sent me a great bug link – QuaoArlo has a great collection of videos he’s taken – he’s quite the world traveler and really knows his bugs. My favorite is the Trilobite beetle from Laos – it’s fantastic! It moves in a really unusual way; its legs are all […]
David Rogers’ Big Bugs
Artist David Rogers makes these wonderful ginormous sculptures of bugs. He started constructing things and learned to weld when he was only 13! His bugs are well-traveled; looks like they’re currently at the New England Wild Flower Society’s Garden in the Woods in Massachusetts.
Here, kitty, kitty, kitty
Remember seeing this thing on YouTube a while back? A lot of people thought it was fake, but it’s a real critter, an Asp Caterpillar, Megalopyge opercularis, otherwise known as the puss caterpillar. It pupates into an equally adorable moth. It can be found in the southern United States – anyone ever seen one? If […]