Posts Tagged ‘short-stories’

This bloody cleaver purse — which hides the handbag cavity in the cleaver bag — is $33 at Vampire Freaks. No idea if it’s remotely practical, but it does look like a giant, bloody cleaver. Bloody Cleaver Clutch Purse (Thanks, Neha!)        

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Purse that looks like a bloody cleaver

In The remixing dilemma: The trade-off between generativity and originality [PDF], a paper just published in American Behavioral Scientist, Benjamin Mako Hill and Andrés Monroy-Hernández analyzed a data-set of projects from the Scratch website that had been made available for download and remixing. They were attempting to identify the formalattributes that made some projects more        

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What makes a project remixable?

Etsy maker CthulhuWakeUp made this stonking chestburster necklace pendant, and granted an interview to the Girl Gone Geek blog about his art: Practicing digital sculpture in my own time, I came up with the Cthulhu pendant and I really wanted to do something with it. I put it up in kickstarter and raised money to        

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Chest-burster pendant

Levskaya’s Eschersketch is a GitHub-hosted web-toy that produces Escher style tessellated drawings that are very good fun to make and elaborate upon. Eschersketch (Thanks, Hugh!)        

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Eschersketch: automated tessellated Escher-esque drawing toy

Click above for full-on grodiness Redditor ImNotJesus has a friend who does her own amateur horror makeup. She’s pretty amazing — check out the ultra-gross fool-the-eye gaping eye-socket wound above. A good friend of mine does horror makeup regularly. What do you guys think?

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Awesome amateur horror makeup

Thorne sez, “I grew up in a bookstore in a 150 year old Victorian mansion in Rock Hill, St. Louis. I lived in an upstairs room until I was about 10, and we needed the space for more books. This weekend a demolition crew came into my family’s store to take measurements for a proposed        

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Great old indie bookstore in St Louis faces demolition as town considers proposal to site an industrial storage facility on its lot

These Star Wars dresses are apparently coming to Hot Topic at some unspecified time in the future. Her Universe Teases Star Wars Dresses, Makes Us Drool        

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Japanese Star Wars poster dresses

These album art cakepops were made by Miss Insomnia Tulip for an unnamed client. Nice work, and infringealicious! Album Cover Cake Pops – a must see!        

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Classic album art cakepops

I’m a filmmaker and an Eagle Scout. Recently, while serving as merit badge counselor of Cinematography Merit Badge, I invited several gay filmmakers to help teach some Boy Scouts about making movies.        

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Gay filmmakers help teach Scouts about making movies

Science fiction author Michael Swanwick sez, “In my adopted hometown of Philadelphia there’s a move afoot to put up a plaque where Isaac Asimov lived while he was working (and writing seminal Foundation and Robot stories) at the Naval Yard during WWII. Asimov hated Philadelphia while he lived here but came back for the conventions        

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Petition to get a plaque commemorating Isaac Asimov in Philadelphia

Cherazor’s “Guide: Posing in Cosplay” was a fascinating look at the thought that goes into showing off your cosplay with well-thought-through body-language that takes into account your own morphology, the depiction of your chosen character, and the line between playful and sexualized posing. Guide: Posing in Cosplay        

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HOWTO pose in your cosplay

I’m very taken with Klaus Weber’s 2011 sculpture Veggieanatomy, which includes real vegetables in its makeup. Veggieanatomy, 2011 (via Neatorama)        

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Vegetables in your guts

The Zero Knowledge Foundation’s explainer on privacy policies is a pretty good introduction to where the fine-print on the sites you read comes from, and the surprisingly meaningful differences between different privacy policies on different sites. It’s easy to assume (as I usually do) that the average privacy policy says, “You have no privacy,” but        

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Online privacy policies explained

Rep. Rogers says #CISPA opponents are probably 14-year-olds in a basement. Tell him how wrong he is by tweeting to @repmikerogers.— EFF (@EFF) April 16, 2013 CISPA is the latest Congressional proposal to do something unbelievably horrible with the Internet — this time, it’s letting US law enforcement and intelligence service raid all of your        

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CISPA: Congress wants to create unlimited Internet spying powers – KILL THIS BILL! KILL IT WITH FIRE!

The “Polar Bear Ice Tray” is a sealed bottle that makes icecubes and then facilitates their easy removal. The sealed container keeps freezer flavors away, and once it’s all frozen, you can dislodge the ice by giving the bottle a whack on a countertop and then pour it out of the mouth. Looks like a        

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Ice-cube-tray in a bottle

From Wikipedia: “English: A large wheeled Assyrian battering ram with an observation turret attacks the collapsing walls of a besieged city, while archers on both sides exchange fire. From the North-West Palace at Nimrud, about 865-860 BC; now in the British Museum.” File:Assyrian battering ram.jpg (Thanks, Justin!)

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Assyrian Dalek, ca. 865 BCE

Internet-savvy indie musicians organize “house shows,” which are pretty much what they sound like: a fan lets the band use her or his house for a performance, and other fans come by and hear it. The shows aren’t legal, but they’re pretty fun*. Boston cops have taken to Twitter, posing as punk kids, trying to

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Embarrassingly obvious undercover cops take to Twitter looking for house shows

Jason sez, BurningManRides.com is a carpool site that helps attendees share rides to the Burn. Created by the rideshare service Ridejoy, the site allows users to easily request or offer a ride and get matched up with other Burners going along their route on the same date and time frame. For those lucky enough to

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Rideshare service for Burning Man

The paperback for Welcome to Bordertown is out, this being the most excellent, long-awaited volume of short stories set in the Bordertown shared world, where Faerie has returned to Earth, and the Bordertown is the place where magic and technology meet and mix. To celebrate, the editors are holding a contest: So you’ve already found

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Contest celebrates paperback for Welcome to Bordertown

Keio University’s robotics group have demonstrated a set of remotely-controlled facial elements designed to be worn as rings. These could be directly controlled by the wearer, or could be remotely controlled by a piece of software that was portraying a character that inhabited your hand like a sock-puppet or Senor Wences. “First of all, this

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Robotic rings turn your fingers into a face

Seoul’s Leeum Samsung Museum of Art is exhibiting Do Ho Suh remarkable “Home Within Home” until June 3. Suh’s piece consists of several large-scale hanging fabric recreations of the houses he’s inhabited. An important characteristic of Suh’s “homes” can be found in the fact that they respond to the spaces in which they are exhibited

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Large fabric replicas of houses

Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas. Goddard successfully bid to build the attraction as part of the 1992 competition to revitalized Vegas’s sagging downtown and bring back tourist traffic that had been sucked away by the strip, but the project was scuttled at

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Secret history of the near-construction of a lifesized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas

Legoist Peter sez, “My most popular model, the Exo Suit, has been submitted to the LEGO CUUSOO website. I need 10,000 supporters for the chance to have it released as an official LEGO set. If you’d like to see this model made available to buy, please support my project on the CUUSOO site.” LEGO CUUSOO

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Lego exoskeleton maker seeks your votes for official kit-status

A delightful post on Phil Are Go! looks at the postwar Calvert Reserve ads, boozy portraits of suburban life populated by a surprising number of expressive little people doing surprising things. Calvert wanted to be the official drink of the relaxed, fun-loving suburbs, so they commissioned this illustration of idealized suburban Americana as their image

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Hordes of expressive little folks doing stuff in postwar booze ads

Parents in America are taking out loans at interest rates of up to 20% in order to pay for their children’s private K-12 education. The average loan from one provider, Your Tuition Solution, is $14,000, while the Lake Trust Credit Union lets you carry up to $40,000 in loans for your child’s primary and secondary

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American parents take out student loans for their kids’ kindergarten education