Paper architecture
Richard Kaufman won one of the Dover Paper Architect books we gave away in a contest back in February. I love that he’s doing the projects and tweeting the results. Nice going, Richard!
Crafts
Ignite: Cutting-edge technology – samurai swords
Brady Forrest writes: A katana (commonly called a samurai sword) is a marvel of art and technology. In this week’s Ignite Episode, Jonathan Kahan walks us through its creation and usage. This was filmed at Ignite NYC 3. The katana is made of steel that’s been folded up to 20x which produces hundreds of thousands […]
Spinning papercraft
Patti writes on New World Geek: I really like playing with papercraft – it doesn’t cost much to make projects, and they can be incredibly complex and interesting. Paper Forest posted about this wonderful spinning star – I’ve watched this video over and over, trying to figure out the movement and why it’s so elegant. […]
Crafting for guys
From an item called DIY Dangerous Toy – The Universel Cycle Buddhist temple made from beer bottles Bicycle table I’m not ashamed to admit it: I’m a dude who crafts. I like altering books, journaling, papercraft, rubber stamping, mail art, making stickers, and… God help me for saying this … “scrapbooking” (tho not the sucky […]
Trashbag whales
You’ve heard of balloon animals. How about trashbag whales? Spotted on our MAKE Flickr pool. Bertrand, air whale.
Wire scorpions
Nice tutorial on Instructables for making vicious little scorpions from twists of craft wire. Wire Scorpion
Floppy disk greeting cards
Here’s a craft project I could get into: turning all of those old 3.5″ floppy disks into turntables on greeting cards. Good way to wrap the ubiquitous iTunes Gift Card. Making a moving turntable greeting card from a floppy disk
