Paper Forest has a post about a Japanese artist living in France, Aoyama Hina. Hina says of her work: They are super fine lacy-paper-cuttings done by a simple pair of scissors. My passion is to create a finest cutoff beyond the level of the very time-consuming needle lace making. I don’t follow traditional but I […]
C’mon, tell me that doesn’t make you go “awwww” and wanna cavort with butterfly swarms and woodland creatures. Get the hi-res template here. [Via the MAKE Flickr pool]
We have our five winners for the Crown Publishing giveaway of The Paper Architect. They are: Kelly Faerie Sleep Goblin Daniel Dorsen WoofBoy111 Richard Kaufman Congrats you guys! I’ll send you an email and you can return your mailing addresses. And after you make some of the projects in the book, please send us pictures […]
I love this quirky idea of using old removable memory cards as covers to little books of photos. Talk about computer-age folk art. Memory card memories
Syracuse, NY pottery and ceramics artist Tim See is enamored with the iron pipes, boilers, rivets and bolts, gauges and levers of steam-age technology. He incorporates all of this into his clay creations. They look so real, you almost forget that they don’t work like the devices they’re meant to evoke. Tim See Clay
Tabistry? Yup. At least according to this site it’s the “art of creating versatile textile out of ordinary soda/bear/soup/fruit/other can pull tabs woven together with fabric, ribbon, cord, wire, jump rings or any other material.” Some of the work is quite lovely. Seems a little… inappropriate to make a kid’s hat from beer can tabs, […]
Keith Newstead is an “automatist” who makes the most amazing kinetic mechanical sculptures. Here are a couple of his pieces, recently posted to YouTube. Keith Newstead Automata [via Dug North] More: Cabaret Mechanical Theatre – A Museum of Automata (mechanical sculpture) Designing automata kit & cabaret mechanical movement
