Kinetic Steam Works on BBtv
The folks at Kinetic Steam Works show Xeni around the shop in this latest issue of BBtv. Kinetic Steam Works: artifacts of clockwork modernity. – Link
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Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris on the Space Channel
The Space Channel in Toronto, Canada is featuring Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris this weekend. Catch him on the Space Channel’s HypaSpace Weekly, a weekly entertainment news program about the world of science fiction and fantasy with “insightful features on movies, television, books, comics, video games and community events.” It airs Saturday, February 9th at […]
Light as jewelry
Kyeok Kim is an artist, jeweler and metalworker who’s created these amazing pieces of jewelry that project patterns onto the skin. To see them, click on “Portfolio,” then “The Sensory Wearable” (any image), then “Jewelry as Skin.” Jewelry as Skin – [Thanks, Patti!] Link
Your Psycho Girlfriend on BBtv
A tutu made of severed baby doll heads? A taxidermed possum that projects a keyboard from one of its hind legs? It’s maker fun brought to you by HP Lovecraft and Salvador Dali. Actually it’s brought to you by BBtv. Text-o-possum / Your Psycho Girlfriend – Link
Folding bike wheel
The aim is to try to get a really high end city bike or courier bike that can fold up into a package like a golf bag, which could go into an overhead rack on a train or go into a plane locker. Reinventing the Wheel – Link
Eccentric Cubicle author Kaden Harris profiled in The Globe and Mail
Canada’s The Globe and Mail has a fantastic story up about Kaden Harris, the author of Eccentric Cubicle: It’s here, right next to the refrigerator, that Mr. Harris fabricates what he calls “antiques from a parallel universe” – wood and metal objects that draw on equal parts Jules Verne, Leonardo da Vinci and Salvador Dali, […]
10 year old makes a ski slope
Cool (literally) maker kid! He made a snow machine and filled his backyard – Forest Pearson’s snow dreams started three years ago when he froze ice cubes for an ice track. Back then, his mother wondered what in the world he was doing, but this year, she understands. “We’re past toys,” she said. “We’re into […]