Quilted Plastic Bag
Craftastica takes the fused plastic bag thing one step further by making a quilted fused plastic bag. She really turned trash into treasure with this one! [via] Link. Related: Plastic Bag Crafts – Link.
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Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards
Mark on BoingBoing points to this great flickr set of 1950’s Valentine’s Day cards scanned in by James D. Kimberlin, an avid garage saler who found 4 large scrap books of cards. Perfect to use for your Valentine’s craft projects! [ via ] Link.
Chinese New Year Crafts
Today is Chinese New Year! Welcome the Year of the Rat (which happens to be my sign). Jess at How About Orange points to the these cool downloads at HP for Chinese New Year crafts where you can print out and make paper lanterns like the lotus flower above, iron on Chinese zodiac animals, fortune […]
Real world Mario
Keith Lam (a.k.a. The Demos) created a real life Mario game installation called “Moving Mario”. The video shows the artwork and describes a lot about the creation process. It would have been a lot easier to use parallax scrolling of the background, but the point is you actually MOVE Mario, not the background…and a moving […]
The electronic snowman?
From Hatayanorg in our Flickr Pool Happy Winter! (do not apply current) – Link Related: Make a Snowman Ornament from a Light Bulb –Link
Maker Faire tryouts in Los Angeles, Saturday, February 9
Mark has the deets’ on this weekend’s Maker Faire try outs in LA, he writes – Are you ready for Maker Faire Bay Area 2008? The call for makers is open now! Come to the Los Angeles tryouts on February 9, 2008, from noon to 4pm at Machine Project, 1200 D North Alvarado Street, Los […]
Riding the (mono)rails
French artist Vincent Lamouroux built this cool pedal cycle to travel along abandoned French Aerotrain monorail tracks. I love it when the future is already in ruin. Vincent Lamouroux – [via] Link