John Baichtal @ Make: Online found this gorgeous etched brass LED lamp by Japanese artist Keisuke Matsushita. If you’re not into harmful etching chemicals, another way to remake this could be with heavy paper and a laser cutter. More photos after the jump!
Learn to make your own tempura butterflies from root vegetables like carrot or daikon radish in this video by YouTube user gryphern. How cute would that be in a bento box?! More: Starbucks Bento Crafting a Bento
Featured on Ecouterre is artist Tine De Ruysser who creates ornate origami jewelry with paper money collected from all over the world. I love this large chain-link choker and the bracelets woven together like candy wrappers.
Becky at Glue and Glitter writes in about her sister Amanda’s sushi cupcakes, made for a friend’s birthday. The cognitive dissonance between the appearance of fish and flavor of cake must be very disorienting, but they’re so lovely!
Every other week, CRAFT’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Craft: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern My family reuses holiday wrapping paper to a hilarious extreme — presents have been known to show up swathed in paper as old as […]
Our friend Liz of Felt Cafe has started Felt Cafe Japan a resource for Japanese crafting. Pictured above is a natural wool class at one of her favorite wool stores in Kyoto. Here, Liz dyed wool with gobaishi, a japanese gall.
While on You Tube, I came across my new favorite channel, Cooking with Dog, a Japanese cooking show complete with a poodle host/sidekick. Makes me love Japan even more now. It also reminds me of one of my favorite Nintendo games, Cooking Mama. Watch this video on how to make a bento box.
