Here are two places to get readymade templates for all kids of day-planner pages you can print right from your computer: D*I*Y Planner.com, and Pocket Mod. No more buying packs of pages you don't need just to get a new calendar and address book! Add a handmade cover, and you're not only organized, you're customized.
Scott didn't know about Make, so you might not either. You really really should. They say it's "the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration," but to me it's hard craft--as in hard edged, but sometimes also as in difficult (for me anyway). Technical crafting, with electricity and electronics. The magazine is great--slightly smaller than a fashion magazine, but bigger than TV guide. And if you subscribe you get full access to the electronic version--pdfs of everything. Make Magazine
Wrap yourself in a video game of the past. I really love this space invader quilt.
October 9th New York hosts the swap-o-rama-rama. Here folks re-work clothing under the guidance of craft professionals. There will be a fashon show of hte highlights. In the related craft event news, reports are Chicago's recent Renegade were fun but wet.
Thanks to Flypaper and Treehugger.
Get ready for Issue 3. It is still the best web based graffiti zine going and now there is a death defying t-shirt.
I was never really a big fan of video games. For one, I didn't have the manual dexterity for them. Secondly, my family (gasp!) didn't own a video game console. I eventually got a Commodore 64 Computer, and could play things like fake pac-man, but I usually buried my nose in a book instead. I still have a keen appreciation of the video game crafts, though, and I have enjoyed the recent explosion in Nintendo music. Here's a great website devoted to D.I.Y. Powerup Blocks and other SuperMario treats. Decorate your town with them, and use them up when you need a little power boost. It's called karma--you should look into it!
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Athens, GA-based artist Amanda Burke is what you would call a renaissance woman. Born and raised in Iowa, Amanda moved to New York to pursue improv comedy, did some shows with the Upright Citizens Brigade, and decided to conquer the art world next. She up and moved to Athens for printmaking grad school, but she can also craft with the best of them. Today, I created a photoset of an amazing artist book that she created out of fun foam. The book is a photo album of polaroids--every polaroid is painstakingly constructed from layer upon layer of the foam. Subjects range from stark (Brooklyn Bridge) to shocking (heart transplant) to tragic (mustachioed synthesizer-wielding musician). I don't love you enough to show you her yeti polaroid...but maybe someday if you're really good.
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If I had alot of money. Scratch that. If I had very very big money, I would fold it and fold it and wear it. Or if I was very very small I would do the same thing. Or maybe not.
The Museum at FIT really always delivers and is FREE. This show on Dutch design is excellent. Here are a bunch of pictures.
