There’s a rather awesome little meme making the rounds about Facebook at the moment. If you’re on facebook you can join the DIY Album Covers group and following some simple guidelines to introduce randomness, produce your own album cover art and upload it to the group. Some of the results are quite hysterical.
here’s a few of mine.
Actually there’s nothing to do with drugs in this post, but here are some cool pics I pulled off Flickr of other jeweller’s benches.
Form&Function also here:
Two things, Citizen Engineer is an online video series about open source hardware, electronics, art and hacking by Limor (Ladyada) Fried of Adafruit Industries & Phillip (pt) Torrone of MAKE magazine.
image via pingmag
Pingmag is featuring a nifty little post about clever Japanese packaging solutions.
Bonus: Pingmag has a make section where they post interviews with various artisans and craftspeople from across Japan like this one with shipbuilder Kazushi Takahashi who also happens to dabble a bit in architecture or this one with Hideto Hyodo who designs with acrylic plastics
image via pingmag
image via pingmag
This guy Stephane Halleux does some pretty amazing steampunk sculptures; robots, chairs, vehicles of many sorts as well as wierd and creepy characters.
more here
also here
I have also discovered that there is a forum dedicated to all things steampunk right here
Yes, he is a ring. He swivels on the shank, now that I think of it I can’t imagine what possessed me to make him swivel in the first place as there’s little practical use to it, also his little tentacles get caught between the shank and my finger. All in all not really a commercial success, but he’s the first one in a while that I made for no-one but myself and I love him.
A collection of links from BoingBoing.net’s archives
“The Tomorrow That Never Was” Henry Jenkins
The art of Alex CF – Martian botanical device
Images of Steampunk Choppers sculpted from watchparts
Mike Libby’s Steampunk Insects at Insect Lab
Dr. Grodbort’s Steampunk Rayguns
Jake of All Trades Steampunk Computer Mouse
The Villainizer – Custom Steampunk Guitar
After many delays and hang-ups, we managed to get our shit together and took some pictures in the dark.
rest of the album is here
So its late and I’m supremely bored so I dug out my camera and had some fun with the manual setting…
Newsgator clippings
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