Need a little help making your stitches pop on screen? Check out these tips for taking beautiful embroidery photos from Niamh at StitchPunk. Even if you don’t have a top-notch camera or a ton of editing know-how, she’ll show you what you need to know to start capturing and sharing the beauty of your projects! […]
I often find bags of wooden thread spools at thrift stores or garage sales, and feel a crazy urge to rescue them. If you have a similar affliction and need a way to repurpose the spools, check out this tutorial from jessica of Miniature Rhino for turning them in to beautiful photo holders. Planning a […]
Thanks to everyone for the helpful and constructive feedback on last week’s Flickr pool roundup. We asked, you answered, we listened: We’re sticking with the old format. Enjoy!
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: My first Brooch, by patriciaolazo Purple & Brown Rag Rug, by roses&pearls A girl with a hamster hat felt brooch, by hanaletters Bookmarks dolls, by *elenatillas* Flappy Owl, by Angry Angel
At an RCA event Oscar Lhermitte had the idea to mount a camera to an electric drill and record the outcome, dubbed “Seeing in Circles.” With the camera recording at 15 fps and the drill spinning 20 times per second, the resulting image turns whatever the camera is pointed at into a swirling kaleidoscopic video. Lhermitte explains:
For all of you out there planning weddings, here’s a new take on a wedding reception favorite from Leigh Graves Wolf – an Instagram semi-instant photo booth!
I wanted an unusual shot to show off the results from my recent soda can label embossing project, and had some success using this unusual method. There is a classic physics demonstration, sometimes disguised as a bit of stage magic, in which pieces of glass are made to disappear by immersion in a liquid that […]
