sticky-note mona lisa
Shay Hovell, from Ottumwa Iowa, recreated the Mona Lisa entirely out of post-it notes for an online contest.
“I put it together on individual poster board sheets and then what you’re seeing behind me is all of those poster board sheets put together,” Hovell said.
If you’re wondering just how many sticky notes it takes to create a nine foot by nine foot portrait, it’s 12,000.
He used seven different colors of notes and a black marker for his picture.
“It took about 40 hours. I’d usually as I woke up in the morning as I was having my coffee would work on it then,” Hovell said.
DIY iPhone Scanner
I love this, especially since I don’t exactly have a steady hand (a surgeon I will never be). Here is the link to ponoko showroom which houses the eps files.
Modified My Little Ponies
Apparently, people do this.
Frog
Womb
Boo
Dinks and Boobs
Dinks and Boobs are hand crocheted and designed to help raise awareness of testicular and breast cancer. Each comes with a little lump in it and instructions on how to find it. Available at Shannon Gerard for $25 Canadian, with $5 going to the Cottage Dreams cancer charity.
(via Bourne Magazine)
For Cooper: Steampunk RV
V12 Origami Engine
A Project for Rick
Inspired by Barry Stone’s photograph of carts in a Hobby Lobby parking lot, I ambled over to the Hobby Lobby website, where I discovered a project that has RICK NEECE scribbled all over it.
Try to keep the crayons as even as you can. Also, try to keep the small hoop in the center of the large hoop. Only glue one crayon at a time. If you don’t, you will not have enough space between the crayons.
Fighting the trend
Right or not, is it really worth the effort to write the polemic?
No. A thousand times no. Repeat after me: There’s no such thing as knitting that doesn’t suck rotting intestines out of a dead cow’s ass through a rubber hose. In evidence I offer the Philadelphia’s Men’s Knitting Circle-created for “fellas to have a place to sit, knit and enjoy each other’s company and share the male-focused creative process.”
The Porsche Dress
(Via a comment on A Dress A Day)
cut and fold candidates
These cut and fold candidates are way too awesome (for a full size templates check out the link):
via swissmiss
What has Mary been up to lately?
Glad you asked. I finished up knitting five foot-long socks for lightbulbs and then also performed in the installation. Look for me on A Moment of Luxury and Rachel Ray.
Calculator made from wood and marbles
In essence, this is how computers do math
via Will
Threads this Sunday, February 24
Threads: Wearable Art Fashion Show
at the Jersey City Museum
350 Montgomery Street, Jersey City, NJ
Sunday, February 24th, 2008 1pm: Runway show 2pm: Reception immediately following
Threads: Wearable Art Fashion Show is presented by _gaia in conjunction with Jersey City Museum. The
show will be presented at the Jersey City Museum on Sunday, February 24th, 2008. The event, which is free
and open to the public, will highlight the work of 20 artists and designers who are combining non-traditional
materials and/or technology to create wearable designs.
An artist talk at 1pm will feature Despina Papadopoulos, an interactive designer and director of Studio 5050 who specializes in developing concepts and inventing applications for wearable computing. She will be joined by Nora Abousteit and Benedikta von Karaisl, the founders of BurdaStyle.com.
Artists/designers: LoVid, Christina Mancuso, Johana Moscoso, Jenny Chowdhury, Julie Blanciak, Kate Hartman, Juliana Cope, Gwen Charles, Pollie Barden, Geraldine Juarez, Norene Leddy, Gailene McGhee St.Amand, Zawadi, Giana Gonzalez, Sonali Sridhar, Danielle Fotopoulos, Stephanie Tichenor, James Tichenor and Amanda Mayoff.
For more information or directions see: www.gaiastudio.org or www.jerseycitymuseum.org
Tampon Crafts
thing-a-day
A Smut Story
Dear Popular Mechanics,
I’ve enjoyed the reader letters in your magazine since first sneaking a peak at your pages as a boy, but I never thought that one day I would write in with an unbelievable story of my own.
Andrew Clemens
This is sand:
An Origami Vagina
Be the belle-vetica of the ball
Or, perhaps, the Monotype Bell[e]?
The brilliant Erin of A Dress A Day has pointed out some aggressively textual textiles for sale on eBay (and, presumably, elsewhere).
She’s made a circle skirt of this already, and is considering making a dress with numbered fabric for the trim. What else can you see being made out of this? Me, I’m thinking that the nasty side chair in my office desperately needs reupholstering. And then I might make some Scrabble™-style throw pillows. What other typefaces would you like to see made into fabric? Some of the Emigre patterns, perhaps? Got any rug ideas?
Two-Piece Throwing Star — All 22 Steps
Panography
How to build the best paper airplane in the world
