This “Juke Box Entertainment Center” costs about $200 and makes it pretty obvious how old your media collection is by showcasing up to 104 CDs, 80 DVDs, VHS tapes, and your small, 27 inch TV. We like the homage to the past, but we wonder if its compact design makes it a bit difficult to […]
Jun Murakoshi’s “Noisy instrument”- What has not been done by using rapid prototyping technique? My answer is making sounds. It must be difficult to make music but it could be possible to make noise. When you put a seashell on your ear, you can hear something strange noise. It is noise but it makes us […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Cmorris32839 made a really DIY magnetic sculpture – Link.
Here’s a good follow up to our last post about consumption (Artist Chris Jordan) – The NY Times on where cell phones go when they die… Americans threw out just shy of three million tons of household electronics in 2006. This so-called e-waste is the fastest-growing part of the municipal waste stream and, depending on […]
Chris Jordan’s incredible gallery of consumption culture (this skeleton is made from 200,000 packs of cigarettes) artist’s statment – This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans […]
Here are some of my favorite posts from the CRAFT blog this week: Pac-Man Shoes – Link. Cal Lane’s Steel Lace – Link. Happy Star iPod Cozy – Link. Crochet Elvis Doll Pattern – Link. HOW TO – Make Pixel-Art Cookies – Link.
A different kind of wall clock. Autodesk Labs Sun Dial for a Green Clock – [via] Link
