Afrigadget had a piece about this art colony near Nairobi National Park, called Kitengela Glass. They use local artisans (and train new ones) to make and sell items from recycled glass, metal, and other materials. From the Kitengela website: They try to help their locale as much as possible – over fifty people have been […]
Every year, some friends of mine throw an “Art Hat” party for New Year’s Eve. We get together and each construct a hat that we wear at the stroke of midnight. We parade around in the hats while banging on their pots and pans. Last year, we had a bonfire in their front yard and […]
Nothing captures the holiday spirit like staggering numbers of alcoholic beverage bottles. [via Unpluggd]
I love the funny and characterful scenes that Lenny & Meriel manage to capture with their Sparebots sculptures — like this dude, obviously ready for a bellyful of button cell. Sparebots
In this Thing video, Steve Reeder of Motmot Shop in Vienna, demonstrates how to make pinback buttons. Buttons were one of the things I first got serious about making as a tween. I saved up my allowance money and bought a hand-held button-making machine. I even had something of a cottage industry for a time, […]
The amazing Habu Textiles has started their annual yarn sale – they have the coolest yarns made of paper, silk, cotton, ramie, lots of strange and wonderful stuff for all kinds of art projects!
A knit piece by Ben Fino-Radin Here’s a cool panel at the New Museum this Friday: CRAFT HACKERS Rhizome.org panel discussion Fri, Dec 12, 2008 | 7:30 PM New Museum of Contemporary Art Craft Hackers is a panel discussion among artists who use crafting techniques to explore high-tech culture and the relationship between needlework and […]
