Threadbanger’s Macrame Planter
Our friends over on Threadbanger are always serving up DIY realness with their projects. I love that their spin on a macrame planter involves bold colors and GOLD.
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Circuit Bending Bacteria with the Fuel Cell Symphony
A look at Gilberto Esparza’s latest project, the Fuel Cell Symphony, which converts water samples and the unique bacterial agents contained therein into audio. Esparza refers to his art-meets-science setup as “DJ Microscope.”
The Knit Garden
The Knit Garden is an ongoing series of works by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky, in which she creates fantastic knitted versions of flowers and plants.
Justina Blakeney’s Jungalow
I am loving Corinne Leigh’s most recent episode of Recreate on About.com where she visits the fabulous and stylish Justina Blakeney. Justina’s “jungalow” is endlessly inspiring and together they show us how to make our own customizable hanging planters. What an awesome project to do to prepare for spring!
DIY Vertical Terrariums
These mini DIY Wall Terrariums from Ruffle are just about the cutest little things I have ever seen!
Stunning hyperrealistic glass flower models at Harvard
In the late 19th century, when biologists and botanists from Harvard were sailing all over the world taking specimens of every living creature they could find and sending them back home for study, a very serious problem arose in the accurate preservation of those specimens. There was no refrigeration and no practical color photography, and fresh plant and animal specimens rapidly decayed into colorless blobs of mush in jars full of alcohol or formalin. So then-director of the Harvard Botanical museum George L. Goodale commissioned German father-and-son glass artists Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka to create photorealistic replicas of fresh specimens in solid glass. The Blaschkas would go on to spend the next 50 years creating more than 3,000 such models, which are still on display at Harvard today. It’s a thing not to be missed in your time on this Earth.
The Cheap Vegetable Gardener LED Grow Box
On the last day of Bloom month, I want to share my favorite gardening blog. The Cheap Vegetable Gardener is thrifty and innovative, and all about automation. His projects include computerized grow boxes, and this neat LED project. And for the CVG, its all about the bottom line. He makes like with this screen door […]
