mp4 | mov | hd-appletv| 3gp |3g2 | itunes | blip | youtube | pdf This month we continue the best of “Weekend Projects” with Bre Pettis. This particular episode was made to celebrate the One-Year Anniversary of Weekend Projects and features the flames to prove it! If you haven’t seen this podcast, its a […]
The “Urban Echo” installation connects up SMS with urban graffiti. Questions are posed in a public projection that people can SMS answers to that end up on the wall and eventually lose all gravitational pull and combine to create a spatialized audio performance. [via], Link see also related SimpleTEXT
Skinny laMinx (aka Heather Moore) posted this photo of some paper cuttings that will become screen prints. I’m a fan of her screen printed towels and aprons so it is interesting to see where they come from. Link.
“Juggernaut” by Phil Ross is a self-contained habitat for a living plant built from 3 glass blown enclosures with LEDs for light and nutrient-infused water. The project takes inspiration from Victorian glass conservatories and Juggernaut-Chinese scholar’s objects, sharing the belief that nature is best understood when seen through the lens of human artifice. Pretty interesting […]
Blogger imomus’s girlfriend Hisae knit this wool cable cover. I don’t know how much sense it makes to hide just a single cable, but it looks kind of cool. [via] Link.
Aside from being great projects, recent MAKE Flickr pool submissions are just plain pretty – like this tabletop terrain by member Aud1073cH: The Silo Station for storing fuel, luminous flux, and a communications relay station. Made from wood, plastic, concrete, metal, wire, and a touch of various adhesives and paint. The atmospheric background is a […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Care for a cup of BZZZZZT? Witness the “Teapotus Noisus”, another good one from pool member Whereisthecavern: Noise, lights and tea. I need nothing more. It has a pickup installed and you can plug it into an amp and hit it and it makes all sounds of noises. It also […]
