From Dr. Don Pettit, this brilliant man is an astronaut onboard the International Space Station and using a lovely crafty object, a knitting needle, he demonstrates how static charge can cause a water droplet to orbit the needle while in zero-gravity. Something geeky and crafty in one video, heaven!
(Source: craftzine.com)
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farrah @evestament
oooh, I want these in different shades of purple
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Creative brushes, rollers, and other painting tools designed by CuldeSac.
Look at these needle-felted cuties!!! Made by Milo&Ben.
By Hayley Morris, a visually gorgeous, astounding stop-motion animation, the textures of the fabrics acting as the ocean are rippling and great. The idea behind it is based upon the progression of Alzheimer’s inspired from the artists Grandfather, touching and genuinely heartfelt.
There are two sides to every question - Black field of cut steel plants hides a colorful secret …
An incredible installation by Zadok Ben David. Using 12,000 cut steel botanical models from old textbook illustrations, embedded in a thin layer of sand. At first sight it’s completely black. Thats why it’s called the “Blackfield”. But the other side of the field turns into a wall of color. Amazing!
More to see here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRXfR99b2XE&feature=player_embedded#!
“Each page of this hand-bound book has a square cut out of the center, rotated 1 degree from the previous page. The holes form a twisting tunnel through the book, with the front and back covers at right angles. The binding lets it bend and twist into various sculptural forms.
Laser-cut Bristol paper pages. Coptic bound with 1/8 inch laser-cut Baltic Birch plywood covers and waxed linen thread.”
(Source: etsy.com)
