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.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Jar of pickled bums, by Julie Rose Stitches Bat vampire brooch, by Coco_Flower “Waling” Banshee, by Plushroom Soup Reading Mummy, by Madame Soufflé Fantastical Fantasy Pumpkin, by Spellstone Inspired to craft something for Halloween? Be sure to enter it in our […]
Back in June, I was excited about the idea of so-called “light field” photography – a digital raster process that captures not only intensity and color for each pixel, but also the direction of inbound light. The upshot? So-called “light field” cameras actually record a vector field for each image that allows ray-tracing routines in software to produce images of the scene arbitrarily focused at any depth, including infinite.
Kim Keever’s elaborate method produces remarkable results. This, from a statement at Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery: “Kim Keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water.”
MAKE headquarters received a visit yesterday by three gentlemen on an interesting (and very random) mission: following a $10 bill on its journey across the U.S. for a month. Filmmakers John Hardwick and Ben Unwin, along with journalist Steve Boggan, had traveled to the States from the U.K. to make a film about the journey […]
As I predicted, the third week of October has brought with it the MAKE Flickr pool’s first Jack-o’-lantern of 2011—a leering, laser-cut, LED-lit orange from Hacked Gadgets blogger Alan Parekh. I’m also pretty stoked about the bolt-shouldered, needle-felted frog from FeltedChicken (whose koi I featured last Monday), and the latest amazing steampunkery from gogglerman.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Primitive Cat Doll in a Santa Hat, by oldworldprimitives luie-luie mice doll, by luie-luie Reversible Cat—Good Kitty Side and Reversible Cat—Bad Kitty Side, by caffaknitted packaging, by cupcakes for clara yeti, by lindsay harmony
Actually, it’s pretty easy: Shoot the film, have it developed (not mounted), cut out the exposures, and feed them to a craft-store sticker maker. And it’s always a pleasure to see what the inventive photo-hackers at Photojojo will come up with next.
