“Face paintings”
The amazing “face paintings” James Kuhn.
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“Road Kill Carpet”
The “Road Kill Carpet” is gross, but since it’s Halloween season it’s a go! via Bre. Do you know the feeling that you do not want to take a look at something, but you still do? The Road Kill carpet is a continues struggle between attraction and repulsion. It’s a warm, soft, cuddly carpet that […]
Creating a handmade newspaper
Ryan writes in about creating a handmade newspaper… The complete paper – a four page publication not far off the Berliner size – was distributed this morning at select central London locations. Every word and every image and every mark of any kind in The Manual was drawn by a team of volunteers – mostly […]
Listen to the money talk…
Jeff made a fun Flash app that lets you listen to the price of a stock, he writes… So, my boy Mike Nathanson and I wore our brains on our sleeves at Flashcamp this weekend. We dreamed up a sweet idea of listening to stock prices, which we dubbed MoneyTalks. It uses the new SampleDataEvent […]
Creative advice on iPhone
Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies was created as a set of cards containing a variety of non-specific phrases and ideas intended for use by the creative mind in need of direction. They can be quite helpful in those ‘stuck’ moments of manufacture, and now there’s a free open source iPhone application available to […]
La Superette – call for submissions
The annual NYC art/device/wearable market-show is accepting submissions – La Superette 2008 is looking for: Survival crafters, conceptual product makers, DIY game producers, micro distributors, fashion hackers, electro-gadget inventors We want to see what you’ve got! ++La Superette IS: An annual hybrid event mixing art, shopping, music, and community spirit —La Superette is NOT: An […]
ILoveSketch – Amazing 3D program
Seok-Hyung Bae, Ravin Balakrishnan, and Karan Singh, “ILoveSketch: As-natural-as-possible sketching system for creating 3D curve models,” (To appear) ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology 2008 (Monterey, CA, USA, October 19-22, 2008) [pdf] via NOTCOT. A 3D curve sketching system that captures some of the affordances of pen and paper for professional designers, allowing […]