Crafty Events

Button It Up Book Events

For those of you in the Portland, OR area, don’t miss Susan Beal’s Button It Up Book Events. The first one is tonight at Powell’s Books (1005 W. Burnside St., in downtown Portland) at 7:30, upstairs in the Pearl Room. Then next week on Saturday, March 28 at 4:00pm, Susan will be at Bolt Fabric […]

Book Sculptures by Brian Dettmer

Via BoingBoing, check out Brian Dettmer’s awesome sculptures! David Pescovitz writes: Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer creates marvelous sculptures by performing surgery on books. He has a show opening April 3 at Chicago’s Packer Schopf Gallery. The gallery kindly sent a few sneak peeks at the new work.

Handmade Music 3/19/09 – recap

Handmade Music 3/19/09 – recap

Many Noise Toys were born at last night’s Handmade Music event. Kit creators Loud Objects were on hand assisting with assembly and soldering basics for those new to the sport. Bret Truchan, creator of GlitchDS (and its forthcoming desktop iteration), demonstrated his cellular automata based software and Eric Beug explained the inner workings of his […]

Reminder: Craftster SXSW Day Party Tomorrow

Austin has been going nuts this week with all kinds of great events related to SXSW. I’m really looking forward to tomorrow’s Day Party for Craftster and Standard Recording. They’ll be demonstrating the Yudu personal screen printer, and will have craft projects, food, drinks and live music throughout the day. Jenny Hart from Sublime Stitching […]

Making the 2009 Shmooball Cannon

Making the 2009 Shmooball Cannon

Larry Pesce wrote in to let us know that he’s posted his build notes for this year’s Shmooball Cannon: Shmoocon (hosted by the fine folks at the Shmoo group, an independent security “think tank”) is a small hacker/security conference in Washington, DC, typically some time during the month of February. … They provide a foam […]