Believe it or not, Delphus, the mask pictured above, is folded from one solitary sheet of elephant hide paper (donโt worry, no elephants were harmed or used). Delphus is just one of Joel Cooperโs incredible origami creations. Check out more of his work on his Makerโs Market page, which includes a tutorial on making a [โฆ]
I bought one of these RSS throw pillows from Justin almost a year ago when Becky hit it in a Flickr pool round-up on CRAFT. It was a steal then at $15, and it looks like Justin has only marked it up a little bit in the meantime, to $19.99, which is still a great price. Mine is a year old, has seen daily use on my living room couch, and still looks great. Comfy, too.
Brain Dereu of Hollow Spy Coins has done it again. As if the solid stainless steel version of their original aluminum dead drop spike I recently blogged about werenโt cool enough by itself, the Dereu family is now offering the same product machined in solid freaking titanium. Incredibly, theyโre selling it for exactly the same price as the stainless steel version.
Aw, man, this is almost too good to be true: Makers Market seller John Doffing, of Philadelphia, PA, has scored a license to reprint every card in Toppsโ famous 1962 trading card series Mars Attacks. Johnโs company, LTL Prints, has a novel full-color print-on-demand process using environmentally friendly inks, at 1440 dpi, on a 10 mil self-adhesive โfabric paperโ substrate that can be removed and repositioned over and over again. Heโll sell you any card in the series at your choice of six sizes ranging from one foot to six feet on the long edge, with prices starting at $15. Heโs also selling complete sets at a steep discount over the per-print price.
Apparently there was some kind of giant rocketship at Maker Faire this year. Did anybody else notice this? I tend to tune everything else out when thereโs funnel cake around. We should probably put it in a more prominent location next time.
Anyhoo, if, like me, you were at the Faire and happened to miss the 40-foot-tall gleaming aluminum spaceship in the middle of the grounds, on the program, and on all the posters, donโt fret: There are plenty of groovy photos and videos whooshing around the tubes, and if you find yourself unsatisfied by two-dimensional simulacra you could always purchase one of Raygun Gothic crewman Alan Rorieโs kit models of the craft. Heโs got
beautifully-printed pepakura
for $12.50 and laser-cut plywood for $50.
Logan Austeja Daniel, Martin Azevedo, and biochemist/jeweler/entrepreneur Raven Hanna of Made With Molecules are the brains behind this beautiful deck of Tarot cards with scientific themes. Suits were commissioned from five different artists: Janelle Schneider (Wands), Kristy Whitehouse (Pentacles), Shari Arai DeBoer (Swords), Tammy Stellanova (Cups), and Kris Johnson Michiels (Major Arcana). The deckโs gonna be available for sale soon, but the exact date is TBA. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail here.
Right, so, hereโs a question for the nomenclaturally aware mechanical engineers in the audience. Last weekend, I was exposed to two equally awesome objects that include radially-opening apertures that I call โirises.โ The first, to left, is Alan Rorieโs Aperture Lamp, which includes an adjustable opening to control the amount of light it emits. The [โฆ]
