When you think about it, beads are the “sprites” of the craft world, so it’s really no surprise that the two should come together. Dr. Octoroc uses Perler plastic beads to breathe new life into classic video game sprites. His newest piece, Gutsdozer, was made using 16,000 beads. By layering the beads, Dr. Octoroc was [...]
Tonight I gave a yo-yo presentation at Quickies, a fundraiser for 826 put on by Ideo. It was a blast to see Ideo’s killer office space in Pier 28, and to perform a twist on my normal act (tweaking it slightly to fit a tech-ier crowd). My presentation was around 9pm, and I went on [...]
This week has been a week of snowballing failures, but at least I’ve finally posted some of my newest batches of wallets and designs onto DocPopCrafts.com.
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I haven’t been outside all day today. In fact, the last several days have all been spent indoors trying to build [...]
Last year was a great year for me, I learned a lot of new things and got a lot done, but 2008 has been real sluggish so far. All the parties and traveling at the end of 2007 pulled me away from my daily creating routines and I got so sick from in January that [...]
This year for Valentine’s Day, I bought a card that is in the shape of a cereal box. Considering the high price of cards, I was surprised that this giant card was only $3. I decided to use the cereal box as a gift box too, here was my process;
I started with a box of [...]
Yesterday I made my mock up holster for the BSP, a new yo-yo by Anti-yo. The denim is raw selvage denim. Now I have to make 74 more.
Although shipping my Etsy sales has kept me busy, I really have no excuse for not being more productive with my craftmaking. Luckily I tend to do my work in large batches, so I still have plenty of merch for my site despite not working on any wallets since late November.
I try to work on [...]
Self Edge, the denim store I do alterations for, has recently announced their new Self Edge/Flat Head collaboration… on a yo-yo message board.
The new SExFH jeans, slated to be released in June, feature a gorgeous leather patch that reads “Fun Time Yo-yo” with a classic illustration of our favorite retro-winding double knob toy. Of course [...]
I saw this awesome little hoodie in Pens and Needles on 16th and Guerero today.
Toasty, the crafter responsible for these hoodies, sews mittens onto the hoodies as an much cuter alternative to pockets. Keen idea.
I had been meaning to create a list of on the go iPhone stand techniques that I’d stumbled upon over the past few months of traveling and gig-ing, but had put the project on hold until Veronica Belmont tweeted me this morning about this blog entry (via The iPhone Blog).
The blog post was about the [...]
