The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… E-Bike stretch Cruiser from kiteanderl. Halo Reach EOD from Tsabo Tsaboc. Manikin Figure Lamp with iPad 01 from Whamodyne. Russian toy rocket kit from lookseeseen. HIV Viral Cell from chimaeraphoto. Soma Cube from 3D King. Together from funnypolynomial.
Here are some things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: “Holgy” Camera Camera/iPhone Case, by hine Linen Lucky Horseshoe, by made by maxine Capitol Inspired Micromacrame Bracelet, by Raquel’s Designs Little People Fashion Line, by Hasenpfeffer Incorporated Boba, by rRradionica
In 1934, New York’s Museum of Modern Art opened their famous Machine Art exhibition, featuring industrial objects like gears, bearings, and propellers displayed solely for their aesthetic value. The embedded video is excerpted from avant-garde U.S. filmmaker Ralph Steiner’s Mechanical Principles, which was released only a year earlier, and is very much in the same […]
Destin of Smarter Every Day took the lens off his Canon 60D, pointed a Phantom Flex high speed video camera at the shutter, and took a picture. The exposure cycle happens in four stages and lasts less than a tenth of a second in real time, but the Phantom Flex stretches that action out to […]
Conceived as a simple way to record both sides of a conversation in a single shot for a documentary about love filmed in Paris, The Love Box has a name more likely to elicit a stare rather than a split screen. It achieves its effect using a single mirror mounted on a slide and rotated 16º from the camera.
ITP students Will Jennings and Lia Martinez built a small catapult (not a trebuchet in the strictest sense) that, when pulled back and released, announces “Banana” and triggers a video projection of said fruit flying into the wall. From Lia’s site:
Our featured image from the MAKE Flickr pool this week is from regular fdecomite, whose beautifully-made and -photographed geometrical sculptures appear here frequently. In fact, this is the second of his works featuring spherical-mirror anamorphosis to be featured in this space; the first was back in March 2011. Hats off to you, sir. Thanks for […]
