NYC in LEGO
Brickshelf has an entire gallery of NYC-turned-LEGO, I think the LEGO lady feeding the LEGO pigeons is my favorite – [via] – Link. More: LEGO articles, oddities and more – Link.
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Flickr Group – Wardrobe Remix
There’s a cool flickr group called Wardrobe remix which is filled with outfits that show everyone’s personal style. It is about whatever you wear, wherever you happened to get that from…mass market, designer, handmade, thrifted, etc. Shown here is a thrifted gingham dress, altered, screen printed, and embellished by the owner. Refashioning has never looked […]
HOW TO – Make a garden hose vase
From Phil over on the MAKE Blog, “Quick, easy and clever project – make a vase from an old garden hose…” [ via ] Link.
Elements of Interactive Art: A Creative, Mac-Based Introduction” class in NYC
MAKE pal Peter Kirn @ Create Digital Motion (who also wrote a great MIDI primer in MAKE 07) is teaching a class in NYC, he writes – “I’ll be teaching a class on using the free Mac developer tool Quartz Composer to build DIY projects and interactive visual art driven by music, sound, and video. […]
Made to order MythTV
You can buy a TiVo, a TiVo-like video recorder, or a Microsoft Media center PC, but who knows how long you’ll be able to keep/record all your shows – so – I usually try and get folks to take MythTV for a swing, an open source alternative. That said, sometimes setting up a Linux box […]
Bike stereo round up
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race ~H.G. Wells… What’s better than riding a bicycle around? Roll’in with a homemade bike stereo blasting out the tunes… there are some DIY ones and a few you can buy – here we go… Thump: Ultra-light/ultra-efficient […]
Make a jar lantern
Sarah’s Pink of Perfection video blog shows us in the most recent segment how to save money and recycle old jars to create nice lighting for those evening backyard BBQs. From Sarah, “I turned instead to the charming jelly jar, but you could use empty salsa and peanut butter jars to the same end. On […]
