Cheap fisheye lens – I have come across a few broken, or just old and scratched, camera lenses at garage sales that would be perfect for this project. Although there aren’t specific directions on how to make one, the image above does certainly make it look easy.
Junktion is a boutique in Tel Aviv featuring locally-made upscale recycled products. Recyclart put me on to these baskets made from chopped up liquid propane gas bottles.
File this under “brilliant” and “why didn’t I think of that.” Betz White shares her genius, and ever-so-easy, steps for covering a boring old canvas tote with fabric, resulting in a nicely lined bag with straps with minimal effort. Brilliant!
So you couldn’t get a visa to Ghana, misplaced your tickets to Accra, didn’t have an up-to-date yellow fever shot or for some other reason couldn’t make it to Maker Faire Africa…Well lose that sad face, the feed is just beginning. It always seems that during amazing events like Maker Faire, the online coverage doesn’t […]
Garth Johnson and Jeanee Ledoux have paired up to bring you an instructional DVD of eco-friendly craft projects called Re-Construct. The DVD format is really fresh, and watching Garth and Jeanee is captivating and quite relaxing at the same time. They are both talented artists whose unique personalities come through, complement one another, and keep things interesting. Their tone and format is so natural and casual it feels like they’re hanging out in your living room teaching you how to make cool green crafts.
The terrific blog Inhabitat has an intriguing article about the winning entries in the Rising Tides competition, wherein entrants came up with ways to deal with what could be a 55″ rise in the San Francisco Bay waters in the next century. From Inhabitat’s recap: Another mind-boggling solution to the high-water mark is Folding Water, […]
More arboreal architectural awesomeness, here brought to you by German architect Marcel Kalberer and the Sanfte Strukturen group. The first structure, called the Auerworld Palace, was constructed in 1998, in Aeurstedt, Germany, and was their first “willow palace” project, taking the efforts of 300 volunteers to build. Kalberer has gone on to… er… plant 70 […]
