Top 10: Binder clips
While searching for related content for this morning’s clever plastic bottle top hack post, I noticed that we have lots of binder-clip related tips, tricks, and hacks. Here are the most trafficked.
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Seal Plastic Bags with Cut-off Plastic Bottle Tops
Though I’m having a hard time imagining the particular circumstances where I would need to do this, I am thoroughly impressed by its resourcefulness and cleverness.
Plastic from Fish Scales
Erik de Laurens recently graduated from the Royal College of Art. As part of his graduate exhibition, Erik presented his project The Fish Feast. He was experimenting with uses for fish scales (of which the commercial fishing industry discards tons annually) and discovered he could create a useful plasticby forming the cleaned scales under heat and pressure.
How-To: Forge a Scorpion From a Lag Bolt
Cool folk art tutorial from delightfully-pseudonymed Instructables user “oldanvilyoungsmith” that manages to combine blacksmithing, old rusty bolts, and scorpions in a single project. Win, win, and win.
Make: Projects – Pop Top Lamp Shade
My project this week is “by request.” I made the first one of these back in 2009, and it was later included in Garth Johnson’s creative reuse book. Since then, I have had many requests for a detailed tutorial. But it was the very polite e-mail I received from Jael last week that tipped the scales. Thanks, Jael!
Recycling Paperbacks as Partitions
Diane spotted this interesting idea from London designer Lucy Norman, who writes: “There is currently no infrastructure set up to recycle the paper from books because the paper is low grade and the glue on the spine must be removed. The Paperback Partition is made from this waste, creating an aesthetically pleasing and interesting divide in a room. It provides both good heat insulation, and acoustic insulation…”
Painstakingly Embossed Portraits on Disposable Aluminum Pans
From artist Idan Friedman’s portrait project. “All people featured in the project,” he writes, “are part of my everyday life, ranging from close friends to passers-by.” [via Dude Craft]
