As a new doggo foster for Rocket Dog Rescue in Oakland, CA I had to go check out their Pop-Up Adoption Event Craft Fair at the Ellen Shershow Photography Studio this past weekend. What a great little event to check out some cool crafts from local artisans and adorable pups needing forever homes. The whole place was thriving with creatives, animal lovers, shoppers, and supporters of the community. Several of the local artisans were also giving a portion of their...
Want a costume that’s compact, lightweight, and covers you from head to toe? Inflatables might be what you need. You can fit your costume in a handbag like a normal person, only to later reveal the weirdest costume at the party. Giant floppy outfits are always fun. But if the one you want is unavailable, fear not! You can make your own. Here are a few builds worth investigating.
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Every winter, Trillium Park on the waterfront in Toronto is lit up with amazing sculptures at night. For a few years now, my friends Kyle Chisholm, Hillary Predko, and Daemon Baliski and I have had the opportunity to create some of these works. This year we’re super excited to have made Greenhouse Reflect, a mesmerizing mirrored sculpture that changes throughout the cycle...
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78. Subscribe today to get more great projects delivered to your mailbox. Featured image: Demon Hunter from World of Warcraft. Photographer: A.Z.Production Cosplay Photography. Cosplayer: Willow Creative Flight has caught our fancy since the dawn of time. Ancient Greek myths detailed Daedalus strapping wax-and-feather wings to his arms. Leonardo da Vinci diagrammed wearable winged mechanisms in the 15th century. Otto Lilienthal helped launch the sport of hang gliding at...
This article appeared in Make: Vol 92. Subscribe for more great projects. After years of hauling music equipment to jams — and ages hooking it up — synthesizer guru Mark Vail and I found a solution: We prewired small, battery-powered synths to effects processors and packed it all into briefcases. Now we could simply flip open the lids, plug into the P.A., and play; with headphones we could even jam in cafés without raising a ruckus....
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 78. Subscribe today to get more great projects delivered to your mailbox. Halloween is our favorite time of year! It’s a perfect holiday for makers because we get to stretch our creative muscles and make some really fun props and decorations that we can share with our entire community throughout the season. It’s a time when anything goes and you can show off your skills. Whether your theme is scary, silly,...
Sometimes you want just a little bit of scary, a touch of terrifying, a peck of the paranormal. In these times, look to Annie Robertson, also known as Blacklillybee. She is a medium of sorts, channeling a miniature world of ghosts through tiny, delightful dioramas. Her creations capture spooky moments in time; the ghosts’ expressive little eyes tell a story, left for you to figure out. Of course, this all depends on her not dropping them during the sculpting...
This article appeared in Make: Vol. 90. Subscribe for more maker projects and articles! Tamara Kostianovsky’s fabric-based sculptures convey all the passions and emotions of a mainstream marble masterpiece and then some, befitting her colorful specialty in the medium of the flesh, dead carcasses, and natural rejuvenation. Kostianovsky, an Argentine-American artist who has presented many solo exhibitions across the United States and Europe, continues to use her formal training from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine...
This article appeared in Make: Vol 92. Subscribe for more great projects. When Chris Mosley was in elementary school, he was the kid who was always behind in his work. While other students dutifully read in class, he got in trouble for drawing because he was more interested in creating his own stories than reading someone else’s. Fast-forward to today, and the creativity that got him in trouble as a kid now enables him to flourish as...
In March of 2018 I was asked a question: Do you know the blimp from Blade Runner? This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great projects. My answer: Freaking of course I did! Not only am I an enormous fan of the movie, and an artist in awe of the models made for it, but it also happens that my college mentor was Lawrence Paull, the Oscar-nominated production designer of said masterpiece. Sitting in...
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