I found this cool manifesto while digging through the dusty shelves of the MAKE Flickr pool, and thought it was particularly apropos given that this is Make and Mend month! Most excellent. What do you think readers? What would you add or take away?
Ghost of a Dream via NOTCOT. Dream Car 2008 $39,000 worth of discarded lottery tickets, cardboard, cast plastic, wood, steel, and mirror
[Via Jeri]
Competitive lockpicking growing in US popularity @ Boston.com. Based on what I’ve seen it’s true, more people want to learn how to pick locks just for fun and more events have lock picking sessions and workshops – While lockpickers thrive on the intellectual thrill of beating all sorts of locks, they oppose attempts to use […]
It’s called txtBOMBER, by Felix Vorreiter. Battery powered, with seven rollers and an Arduino for a brain. [via Dude Craft]
The 8-Bit Cities project, which started with 8-Bit NYC, is an attempt to make the city feel foreign yet familiar, smashing together two culturally common models of space: the lo-fi overhead world maps of 1980s role-playing and adventure games, and the geographically accurate data that drives today’s web maps and GPS navigation. I hope to […]
Since visiting Detroit last summer, I’ve felt a connection to a city that I had never before set eyes upon. I don’t know exactly why. On my own, I explored the ugly, decrepit parts of the city and I felt I was looking at a disaster zone like New Orleans after Katrina. When I mentioned […]
