Instructables user bigtreehouse writes: The goal was to make a light box for my students to use that didn’t cost me an arm and a leg. Went to the second-hand store and found a florescent light… ($4.99 with 50% off) then noticed a suitcase/briefcase ($3.99 with 50% off). I got them both and started thinking […]
From Hack N Mod: We’ve seen some projects featuring how to draw with light using your camera’s exposure settings, but nothing compares to this. This group goes by the name of Light Art Performance Photography and they use lasers, LEDs, illuminated body suits, sparklers and just about anything else which emits light to construct these […]
Photo via the Telegraph UK Sara Wilson likes to make things seem to go away. One of her recent works, an apparently invisible car, is featured at the Telegraph UK: Her work, created as part of her drawing and image making course at the university, creates the illusion that the car is see through. She […]
What says “family get-together” more perfectly than volatile, asphyxiating gas? Every year, Professor Fzz and his family get together over the Easter holiday and issue an “Easter Challenge.” Last year, they made an Egg Cannon. This year, they built a hydrogen balloon and suspended camera rig to take pictures of granddad’s house. I guess because […]
Our pal Eric Gradman came up with a cool augmented reality set-up for an event which poses the musical question: If you put all sorts of personal information on your Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter accounts, would you want to walk around in the real world with that data literally hanging over your head? He writes: […]
Here’s an interesting vid of a close-up/card magician using augmented reality with his card tricks. Marco Tempest From the Maker Shed: MAKE, Volume 13 Our Price: $14.99 MAKE, Volume 13 is our magic issue, loaded with enough tricks to keep your friends and family entertained and mystified for months. Telekinetic pens! Levitating heads! Ghostly blocks! […]
Photo from svofski on Flickr in the MAKE Flickr pool I made this from cardboard, old velvet jeans (for light-tight cover). The shutter is made from the back of an old 35mm camera. To start an exposure, you slide it down the plastic rails (barely visible). The pinhole itself is made in a foil shim. […]
