Custom audio interfaces and handmade amps are great, but I’ve always found regular knobs to be quite boring and impersonal, so I made these felt knobs to enhance the fuzziness factor a bit, and embellished them with embroidery floss indicator lines. They’re just wool around regular knobs, so there’s no sacrifice in performance, just festive […]
This project takes 3 mirrors positioned at right angles so that it looks like there are eight of anything placed in front of it. This happens because “each mirror doubles things (the thing itself plus its reflection) so you get 2 × 2 × 2 of everything, which is eight”. Check out the build photos […]
MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder has a piece on Dinosaurs and Robots about sea glass hunting, inspired by Kevin Kelly’s piece we blogged about last week. We had a wonderful time searching for the sea glass. Sea glass is rare enough to make you excited when you find a piece, but not so rare as to […]
Interesting look at how some mannequins are made and maybe more important, a look at why… A documentary about mannequins, perfection, and religion. 34x25x36 is the 3rd segment in a project about physical perfection being made into a feature film – by Jess Epstein.
Evan is one of my favorite artists, check out his limited edition new era hat.. made from counterfeit New Era stickers…
The final day of 5 in 5 was happy-dirty, telepathic, deliciously chilly, retro-reflective, recursively meta, southwardly mobile, ephemerally illustrated, dubiously conversant, cartographically challenging, mixed, mashed and lovingly recycled. Andrew Schneider was our final Guest Star and meta-chronicled the waning day of five. As promised, the fivers headed to Odessa where their personal bartender concocted the […]
My friend Mike made a lapop/messenger bag with an integrated tail light – When the magnetic snaps are closed it completes the circuit.
