So, here’s something every self-respecting geek-crafter needs to know.
Shrink plastic can be anything you desire.
And like a towel, a pair of pliers are essential kit you should never leave the house without.
Craft blogger Cthuliz shows us all how to make her awesome shrink plastic dinosaur necklace in this great tutorial.
Windell From Evil Mad Scientist posted a great tutorial for inserting LED’s into a tie ‘a la’ Kraftwerk.
I know, I KNOW, we’ve all seen light up clothes, but the simplicity of this project is just beautiful… in a manly kind of way :-)
go make one!
Geekcrafts reader Stephanie used the Submit a Geekcraft link to show us this super-cute spaceman and rocket:
“I made this felt spaceman and rocket pillow for my friend’s 3 year old son. The spaceman is handsewn acrylic felt. “
I’m so jealous of that 3 year old! … but then that’s nothing new… I’m jealous of anyone whose biggest ethical dilemmas of the day is whether it’s right or wrong to use the cat as a pencil sharpener…
There are at least a million different things a geek can do in London, and in my effort to do them all, alas, I failed. One major highlight was the current free exhibition at The British Library (for us yanks, it is like The Library of Congress), Out Of This World: Science Fiction, But Not as You Know it.
First, I am a bibliophile, so this was like Disneyland for me, except at Disneyland you can take pictures and touch things. Each section of the exhibition had a specific theme ranging from the birth of Science Fiction (in the 1600s!), Utopian societies, distopian societies, graphic novels, robots (did you know that the first “robots” in literature were actually synthetically made human slaves, and not machines?), and more. Among these were impeccable, perfect first editions, that made me drool, with some of the most beautiful, and outright cool cover art you will ever see. One major highlight was an original telegram sent from George Orwell to his publisher, lamenting that 1984 would have been “better” if it had not “been written under the influence of TB”, where he goes on to call Satre a “big bag of wind”.
I could write for days on the books on display and how amazing it was to see hand written pages of first drafts, books hundreds of years old, amazing posters (see?), but what really struck me were the interactives they had set up, for all age ranges. You (or your kid) can use an interactive touch screen to draw your own alien, and then watch it join other hand drawn aliens dancing around on the wall behind, there was a sleepy robot that was motion activated that carried on conversation about his favorite science fiction robots, a computer where you could challenge AI to the Turin’s Test, and at least five other things I didn’t have time for.
All in all, this would be an amazing stop in London (runs until September 25), even (or maybe especially) if you have kids in tow.
This etched Portal glass (or Handheld Portal Vessel) was made and submitted by Flickr user Rappe.
Would you drink out of a glass with the Aperture Science logo on it? if so you’re braver than me.
I was transfixed by the blue and orange drink… luckily Rappe clears up the mystery of the ingredients over at the Spritestitch boards:
“The drink we ended up coming up with was mango smoothie on the bottom and Blueberry Lemonade Jones soda on the top. It was surprisingly tasty, but less than a minute after the pictures were taken the smoothie floated up to the top and got all gross looking. Still tasted great though.”
According to popular theories held by physics professors the world over, cupcakes are delicious. That’s why I absolutely adore these cupcakes made by quaint_idea for her last ever high school physics class. I’m pretty sure I skipped my last ever high school physics class to pump iron or something equally manly, but I am glad to see that some people have more class than that.
Take a closer look at the cupcakes here, they were posted on a livejournal group called geekcrafts because great minds think alike and all that.
You can also visit quaint_idea at her LJ page here.
Geeky cupcakes are nothing new to Geekcrafts, check out these Doctor Who Cupcakes or these iPhone Cupcakes or even these Pac-Man cupcakes. Is anyone else getting hungry?
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