This (brilliant, God-given) little machine turns a Jolly Rancher into cotton candy. Don’t ask how it’s done, because clearly the answer is “magic.” It’s called “Ame de Wataame” and will set you back over $200, including shipping.
The My Little Pony Project September 8, 2008
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, My Little Pony invited 25 different artists and “culture’s influential people” to design their own ponies. I LOVED My Little Pony and had a huge collection which I, to my everlasting regret, gave away when I felt I “grew out” of them. I’m excited to see all the unique pony designs but so far, only three have been posted.
“Silver Pony” turns a toy into an objet… my fave of the three.
“Twinkle Hope” dare I say, looks kind of like a Bratz-version of My Little Pony.
“Catalina Estrada” is like a delft vase meets Mexican pinata.
You’re so handy August 23, 2008
I am so impressed with the people who contribute to Ikea Hacker. Check out this gorgeous mirrored coffee table. Are these folks of my generation? Most 20-somethings I know couldn’t tell the difference between a screwdriver and a hammer, much less figure out how to sand the edges of a mirror or “adhere with liquid nails.” I’ll just have to live out their adventures in handy-ness through this blog.
aprica had enough of eyeballing way-too-expensive vintage mirrored tables and took things into her own hands.
“after coveting numerous vintage mirrored tables ranging from $450 to $2500 on eBay and at other online sites, i decided to make my own using a 35″ long ikea lack coffee table. while the cost for materials came out close to $200, i am really pleased with the results of my ‘luxe’ (it’s all relative) lack hack.
i had the mirrors cut (with sanded edges) at a local shop and adhered them with liquid nails made specifically for mirrors.”
Steal this. August 13, 2008
Flickr mosiac stolen from Amanda who stole it from Johnny.
Directions for your own mosiac stolen from Kilowatt Hour.
The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker).The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food? right now?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One Word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.
Wordle August 4, 2008
Text from Carl Sandburg’s “Mamie.”
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
