Archive for the ‘craft’ Category.
November 3, 2008, 20:40
Back in 1985, a laser printer had just broken the 7000$ barrier and become affordable even in small offices and homes.
Right now the the first sub-5K three-dimensional printer has been announced.
The laser printer ushered in the postscript age of non-boring documents and desktop publishing, there’s no bets on what the upcoming printing revolution will bring about, but it ought to be something vastly cooler than the ability to exercise bad taste by including seventeen fonts in a three page document.
[ via O'Reilly Radar. ]
October 31, 2008, 17:21
Indeed, happy halloween. At least the weather is appropriately gloomy.
(How to jack-o-lanternify lego minifigs.)
October 18, 2008, 15:13
Faking the tilt-shiftness of a photograph definitely has ended up on the things to learn properly.
This image of Boston’s Fenway Park shows how well real life imitates model railroad aesthetics.
December 22, 2007, 00:55
More targets for the insatiably curious amongst the readers:
November 7, 2007, 00:56
Scrooge McDuck turns 60 this year.
Sadly, there’s no new story by Don Rosa to celebrate the birthday - the six-part story by a committee of european artists seems very lame indeed in comparison.
Instead, duck fans are strongly suggested to turn towards an awesome scale model of the world’s richest duck’s money bin.
September 19, 2007, 20:59
Here we go again. It’s so hard to hold back the stream of links.
June 12, 2007, 21:59
Words cannnot do justice to Obelia Medusa, a tenacious modelmaker who has built an amazing doll house.
And not just another doll house, but one that takes its inspiration from messieurs Tolkien and Jackson: a doll house from the Shire.
Click the link and scroll the distance, the images are worth the effort.
February 16, 2007, 00:39
The perennially useful Jason Kottke provided no less than three very interesting topics topicsday.
Tried out origami a few years back (bought a starters kit from a dingy Chinatown shop in San Francisco). Liked fiddling with paper, but obviously not enough to keep doing it. This exposé on a master of the art just might re-strike the spark of interest. The papers ought to be in a drawer, so all I now need is a rainy day for inspiration.
The Morning News provides a guide on How to behave in New York. Been hankering to go back a long while, and the mightily verbose guidelines ought to be applicable to any urban environment anyway…
And last, but definitely not least, especially in stirring up a hornets’ nest way: an imaginatively abusive rant against gadgets from the former alpha geek of gizmodo. About as entertaining as William Shatner trashing trekkies back in the day in the Saturday Night Live.
