The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for the kitchen, garage and backyard from food to furniture to fun & games for your family.
If you’re in the Bay Area, take a visit to Johansson Projects (2300 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA, phone: 510- 444-9140) for the opening Thursday night 6-9pm of Thread, a survey of sewn, stitched and woven works whose common thread is the media, not the medium. By re-exploring the functional avenues of textiles and materials, these […]
Here’s how to make DC Bicycle pedal power generators from the folks as Science Shareware – Here you can learn to create your own green power electricity using a pedal power bicycle generator. We setup the 24 bicycle power generators at the 2007 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, 60,000 people a day for 3 days […]
CRAFT Magazine’s Carla Sinclair and Goli Mohammadi were in LA for two big crafting events: Tinlark Gallery’s Modern Fables and Felt Club XL Summer. Throughout the weekend, Carla and Goli were busy meeting crafters, doing workshops (paper beads at Tinlark and Gocco demos at Felt Club), and braving the scorching heat. Pictured above is Carla […]
Special thanks to everyone who attended the Ybox build night, The Ybox is an open hardware and software spec for an IP-enabled set-top box in a candy tin, here are some photos! Link.
These altered Altoid tins look like vintage treasures in the online gallery up at art-e-zine. Pictured above is a piece by UK artist Gillian Allen and a retro Chinese newspaper tin by Mo Wassell of Oklahoma. See the rest of the vintage style art by scrolling up and down the page. It’s amazing to see […]
Jason writes – Art-O-Mat celebrates 10 years! Art-O-Mat machines are retired cigarette vending machines converted to vend art. There are 82 active machines in various locations throughout the country. Art-O-Mat: 10th anniversary – Link (great gallery!).
Abstract Octopus Attack has a flickr set on how to make these super stylin’ boxes made from recycled magazines. Link.
