Here’s the new issue of MAKE on the newsstand at Barnes and Noble in Dearborn, MI. It’s always a delight for me to find it and see MAKE next to other magazines. MAKE is like a little brother who somehow gets attention by being a bit different. At this newsstand, the computers and business categories […]
Everything we do at Beam is directed towards enabling campers and staff to make ideas happen. Our aim is help kids explore how the skill and process of making things can be applied to all of life, not just strictly objex of art. Making, for us, is where art, work, technology, utility, resource management, communication and collaboration intersect. We see making as a pathway to being intentional about how you live, who you are and what you bring to the world.
It’s like one of those champagne fountains at a wedding. Except, you know, made of toilets. And running water (er, one hopes) instead of booze. A “Duchampagne” fountain, perhaps? No, SRSLY: It’s a 2005 installation called “American Standard” by Vancouver artist Reece Terris. [via Boing to the Boing]
This is not, in fact, an actual volcano. It is, rather, the work of Matthew Albanese, a photographer who builds meticulously detailed landscape models and then lights and shoots them to achieve amazing realism. You can view more of his work here. My personal favorite is the Martian landscape made from paprika and charcoal. [via Neatorama]
Here’s a great story in the Telegraph about an amateur stargazer who tricked out his garden shed in the U.K. and surprised professional astronomers around the world with his top-notch images.
We got this wonderful letter from MAKE subscriber Jim Kelly that we thought we’d share with all of you: Make: Team, Issue 21 is, in my opinion, the best issue of MAKE to date. I’m blown away by all the DIY fabrication tools that are now available to the small business or hobbyist. Reading through […]
Jeri Ellsworth has (finally :-) put up another video in her DIY pinball project. In this episode, she covers wire ramps, vacuum forming experiments, slap chop bumper and latching solenoid. DIY Pinball Update – 9 More: Jeri’s homemade pinball machine
