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Arts & Crafts Videos from Etsy

Kattullus — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:01:14 -0800

Etsy has a YouTube channel where they have all kinds of profiles of their users and how-to guides. My two favorite series are the Process series (e.g. New Books with Old Materials & Tin Toys) and Handmade Portraits (e.g. Armor Guitars & Wood Mosaics). In the description of each video there is a link to the corresponding entry on Etsy's blog, The Storque. The blogposts have more information on the users and sometimes further links and videos. [via Work in Progress]

Moasics: they aren't just for Roman bath houses anymore!

orange swan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:27:46 -0800

Uh oh, you smashed a dish while you were washing up. But you don't get upset, because you know what to do with the pieces. Being both cultured and crafty, you not only know about the long and illustrious history of mosaic art but also that you can make mosaics from china and ceramic shards as well as pebbles, beads (new or removed from old jewelery), shells, marbles, or even lego or Scrabble tiles. So you take those pieces of your broken plate (and others that klutzy you has broken in the past) and, following some basic instructions, make numbers for your house, a fire place surround, a birdbath, a flower pot, a table or two or four, a tray, picture or mirror frames, a wall mural/homage to Hitchcock, or even a floor. By now you're wishing you had a spare basilica or Roman villa so you could really go nuts. And, besides planning on picking up some thrift shop china, you're eyeing that 48-piece reindeer-and-elves Christmas dinnerware set your mother-in-law gave you a few years back and thinking it's really too bad you're so clumsy and likely to break it in the very near future.

about:mozilla

ardgedee — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:29:21 -0800

Welcome to Mosaic Communications Corporation! It was 1994, and the World Wide Web as we know it today was about to be born. Mosaic Communications didn't invent the web and didn't even invent the graphical browser. The Netscape browser and Netscape server were instrumental in commercializing the internet. mcom.com was one of the standard starting points for anybody on the Web, and this little slice of history can help the young'uns understand what the Web used to be like. Reconstructed from archived files for your benefit by one jwz, a task epic in the telling.

Bejeweled beauties

madamjujujive — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 00:40:52 -0800

Form and Pheromone - truly lovely beetle mosaics and insect art. (via recogedor) Previously: Living Jewels.

Hundreds of paintings, one masterpiece mural

iamkimiam — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:51:24 -0800

Mural Mosaics! Artists come together to create beautiful themed murals, made of hundreds of relevant paintings. See the making of Lewis Lavoie's ADAM (youtube), a United Nations mural mosaic consisting of 20 large art pieces, painted live at the Edmonton Capital EX. Or visit the ADAM page for an in-depth look. Check out the other murals, such as Earth's Treasure Chest, where you can click on individual tiles and learn about the contributing artists. Also, there's a new mural in progress, King of Kings, updated every Monday! You can be a part of the mural too! Check it.

Rubik's Cube Mosaics

fallenposters — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:20:35 -0800

A Gallery of Rubik's Cube Mosaics. Here's the index as well. (via)

Hitchock Underground

lilbrudder — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:08:04 -0800

In 1999, to mark the centennial of Alfred Hitchock's birth in the Leytonstone district of London, 17 mosaics were installed in the entrance corridors of Leytonstone tube station. Each mosaic celebrates a different Hitchock masterpiece. True to form, Hitch makes several cameos among the mosaics.

Too Many Chiefs Piss In The Broth.

absalom — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:27:19 -0800

When it comes to collaborative art projects, the internet is kind of a mixed bag. Now with TheBroth, that bag gets a whole lot mixier.

Toys! Flickr Toys, that is.

FlamingBore — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 23:04:37 -0800

Toys! Flickr Toys, that is. Like any self respecting wannabe photographer, I've been using flickr. A lot. I just found Flickr Toys at FlagrantDisregard. While QOOP has the official hookup on the flickr site, there are more silly things that can be done with FlagrantDisregard's toys and you can upload your finished masterpiece directly to your flickr account to save for posterity. I've already ~~spent~~ wasted too much time making Magazine Covers, Mosaics and Naughty Motivational Posters.

Slow Mosaic

sjvilla79 — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 16:45:50 -0800

Slow Mosaic is a mosaic generator powered by the Web. Feed it a word and watch it create related mosaics in front of your very eyes. Requires Flash. [MI]

Elvis Mosaic in Post-It Notes

ColdChef — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:43:34 -0800

Elvis Post-It Note Mosaic "My boss decided that we needed to do something fun and creative in one of our conference rooms - the one we use for brainstorming and internal meetings - and together we came up with the idea of filling the wall with post-it notes in a multicolored mosaic of (and i’m not sure whose idea this was) Elvis."

E Pluribus Bardot

breezeway — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:54:01 -0800

This dog is made from animal pictures, this one from beer labels. Here's Nicholson in The Shining, there's Fonda in Barbarella. Kittens, Grant, Santa, and Uncle Sam: all mosaics created with Mazaika. Added bonus: Soviet postcards.

the invasion continues

squeak — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:11:32 -0800

Who is "Invader"? We may never know but what is known is the artist has installed more than 600 mosaics in Paris. His influence has spread to other places such as New York and Los Angeles and some have been chronicling the invasion. [quicktime may be req. for some sites]

Picture perfect!

jpburns — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 14:00:57 -0800

A thousand pictures is worth a word.

MacOSaix is a Mac OSX program that lets you make those wacky photomosaics, using either images on disk, or Google image searches.

Not sure how these folks feel about it, but I think it's way cool.

Wonderful Anamorphic Art

ewagoner — Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:10:18 -0800

You've probably seen those photo mosaics where a large image is made up of many smaller images acting as pixels. Kelly Houle has taken the idea a mile further by creating a photo collage that is also anamorphic -- a collage of illustrations and related material from Alice in Wonderland that, when a curved mirror is placed in the correct position, forms a portrait of Lewis Carroll. Absolutely amazing stuff.

MattS — Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:07:09 -0800

The "Face of Terror"? W.Y.S.I.W.Y.G. I haven't seen propaganda like this before. An interesting take on Arafat. Take a closer look.

plinth — Mon, 08 Jan 2001 08:35:28 -0800

The Infinity Project Josh Simpson makes glass planets. Tickle his fancy and you too may have the opportunity to hide one for posterity.

mathowie — Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:25:59 -0800

Through a random series of events, Jamie Zawinski (oooh, I'm such a name dropper :) sent me some very old archives of the Mosaic/Netscape sites and their beta browsers. Chuck Lau, the originator of the Netscape Museum has cleaned up some of them and has just put October 1994's entire mcom.com site online. Chuck's working on getting the others online (there's at least 5 or 6 more archives of the site at different points in 1994 and early 1995), and will also be putting up a page linking to an archive of the very oldest of Netscape/Mosaic's browsers. The browsers are currently sitting in dissarray on my workstation here. I tried out Mosaic 0.4 beta on my windows machine, about the only site that worked in it was Yahoo's.

mathowie — Tue, 26 Oct 1999 00:49:51 -0800

When I got started on the web in '94-95, most pages were somehow related to Star Trek and recognizing William Shatner as the god that he is. It's funny, but the old stuff like the Mosaic's What's New page, Jerry Yang's homepage, and the machine he used to house his search engine on are all still online. Even good old Mosaic Communications' URL: mcom.com points to Netscape. Who says the web is temporary?