MetaFilter posts tagged with clay

Loopy Boopy

cjorgensen — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:16:08 -0800

Colleen lives in New Orleans and makes strange dolls out of polymer clay. She has a blog and an Etsy shop. Here's a short interview. See also Art Dolls Only and the Travelling Doll Project.

Pimp my (board) game

arcticwoman — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:40:30 -0800

Geeky? Crafty? Got some time on your hands? Make your own boardgame pieces! Tutorials for making custom 3-d Settlers of Catan tiles (and gorgeous custom sets here, and here, although with no instructions,alas). Agricola more your style? Grab some polymer clay and get making resources, more resources, food, sheep, more sheep, boars, cattle, and (of course) farmers, farmers, farmers, farmers, farmers, and farmers. Don't forget fences, tiles, and a starting player piece. Lots more in the image gallery at BoardGameGeek.

Art is everywhere

tellurian — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:54:06 -0800

Mingei is a transcultural word which combines the Japanese words for all people (Min) and art (Gei). The site has a flash interface and features over 5,000 high resolution, zoomable objects. More information on the Mingei Movement.

The devil went down to Georgia - Claymation Video Add as favorite

rageagainsttherobots — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:49:55 -0800

Absolutely amazing claymation video of Charlie Daniels' "The devil went down to Georgia".

organizing without organizations

gen — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:38:12 -0800

Clay Shirky, professor at ITP - NYU, often linked to at MeFi, presents at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society on the ideas in his new book on organizing without organizations. Shirky blogs about his book and the coverage that it's getting.

The Hello Experiment

lemonfridge — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 11:50:25 -0800

The Hello Experiment

Ocarina Time!

Greg Nog — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:41:48 -0800

Want to make your own ocarina? Fair enough; a bit of clay goes a long way. But the legends say that only a true master can construct them out of broccoli or carrots.

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase

jkafka — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:31:35 -0800

Mona Lisa and other classics in clay animation. Joan C. Gratz is the talented artist behind this and other projects. This particular short film won an academy award for best animated short film in 1992. I am surprised to have never viewed it before today. Wikipedia has next to nothing on Gratz or her works.

feats of clay

dhruva — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:39:16 -0800

Feats of Clay :An ice kiln. English Puzzle mugs. Zilliz geometrical tiles. And tons of cool ceramics related articles from Ceramics Today. [via]

Pongomania

mathowie — Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:44:06 -0800

Pongomania: one person's imagination and obession with toy modeling clay.

Maxor — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 10:39:38 -0800

Map-making for fun and profit! How would you like to be born on Buttlickin Ave? Is this for real? Or Someone messing with yahoo's map software? Inquiring minds want to know!

chumptastic — Wed, 07 Aug 2002 21:41:51 -0800

Okaaaaaaaaaaaay Daaaaaaaaaavey! After a 31 year absence, Davey and Goliath are making their return to television. It's funny, I had no idea it was religious programming until years after I stopped watching it. Oh, and this news explains explains those great Mountain Dew ads...

palegirl — Wed, 24 May 2000 20:11:26 -0800

The Poincaré Conjecture: If we stretch a rubber band around the surface of an apple, then we can shrink it down to a point by moving it slowly, without tearing it and without allowing it to leave the surface. On the other hand, if we imagine that the same rubber band has somehow been stretched in the appropriate direction around a doughnut, then there is no way of shrinking it to a point without breaking either the rubber band or the doughnut. We say the the surface of the apple is ‘simply connected,’ but that the surface of the doughnut is not. Poincaré, almost a hundred years ago, knew that a two dimensional sphere is essentially characterized by this property of simple connectivity, and asked the corresponding question for the three dimensional sphere (the set of points in four dimensional space at unit distance from the origin). This question turned out be be extraordinarily difficult, and mathematicians have been struggling with it ever since.

...but if you can prove it, [or any of six other 'millenium prize problems'] the clay mathematics institute wants to line your pockets with $1M