Eric Kurland makes DIY stereoscopic (3D) cameras and displays from off-the-shelf components. He runs a 3D film festival in Los Angeles and showed off his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 in a special 3D village. Subscribe to the Maker Faire Podcast in iTunes, download the m4v video directly, or watch it on YouTube […]
This week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup is full of great Halloween memories. Our featured image, recalling Wednesday’s Cardboard Clone Trooper, is an equally-impressive cardboard Master Chief costume from user jek in the box. For sheer comedy value, my personal fave is user Unconverted’s QR code costume, lowermost, followed in close second by hine’s costume squid hat. And, somehow, to me, Chris Connors’ untitled skull-scrubbing shot sums up the maker Halloween experience quite nicely.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Day 3 Crane Mobile 2, by LaurenBrevner Galaxy of origami stars: starfish, by bloomize Miniature Knitting, by DJLDorset White Ukulele, by hine westie dog mobile: side, by eleni creative
Check out The Playa Time Lapse Project, which captured a bird’s eye view of 27 days of Burning Man set up, break down, and lots of burning. And it all fit into a five minute video. The view is stunning. If you appreciate it, consider helping to fund the next one. Playa Time Lapse 2.0 is live on Kickstarter. Support now and get prints from the Burning Man gallery!
This photo has been on Apartment Therapy before and I LOVE the concept. Taking an old (or new for that matter) photograph and making it an entire wall. Brilliant. This classic black and white photo works so well. Recently on Oh Dee Doh, Apartment Therapy’s sister site for little ones.
Dutch artist Purr Anders creates lovely leaf and flower-shaped brooches by printing antique photos onto fabric. She brings imperfect and complex elements from nature into her art, which really complements the beauty of the photographs, which, themselves, can be somewhat imperfect and worn. Her leaf projects also bring to mind the familiar imagery of a […]
Gorillapods are pretty versatile tripods.You can find them for between $20-$50 depending on the size or build one for a few dollars in parts. Wanna know what’s even cooler than a Gorillapod? A Gorillapod on wheels. Yep, just bolt on some inline skate wheels and your fancy new tripod is now a hybrid tripod dolly.
