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We spend an afternoon making magical mushroom lights in our garden with young Theodore Carman, one of my art students, his mother Isabelle and my friend Jean.
In our first session, we created the mushroom stems and domes, as well as the LED lights for a dozen mushrooms. We made them by soldering surface-mounted LEDs and resistors to a stiff wire, mixing watercolor with clear silicon, shaping the stems and domes with saran wrap.
We got the first mushroom to light up at the end of the day, and it looked truly magical!
In our next session, we will assemble all these parts, drill holes in a wooden log and attach the mushrooms to it, soldering all the wires to a holder with three AA batteries.
If you like, you can easily make your own by following the instructions in this fine video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5LjGFkpApw
It takes about 6 hours to make these mushrooms over two sessions, but the results make it all worthwhile.
For months, Theodore kept asking if we could make these mushrooms during our maker art classes at the Lycée, but I thought this would be too hard for some of the younger kids in our course. So I offered to have him come to our home when the course ended, so we could fulfill his dream in a smaller group.
Making art with friends is such a pleasant experience. I think creative collaborations like these are good for society, and should be encouraged more.
View photos of our other maker art classes: www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157663074065150
“Yeah, it seems like yesterday
I could barely hear your name over the band playing
Leaning on my Chevrolet
Your hair in braids, holding my hands saying
I don't normally do this
But there's something ‘bout you and the vibe and the music
It was love it or lose it
In Afghanistan we visited project sites of Healnet TPO, a Dutch based NGO with years of experience in Afghanistan. We visited project sites in Jalalabad and around to learn more on their midwifery programs that run throughout the government. Their policies have now been implemented by the Afghan government through the whole country.
Making Off de hoje, amanhã estarei postando uma das encomendas que mais gostei de fazer, foi dificil, demorou, mas valeu muito a pena! Só tenho uma coisa para falar, quero uns desses para mim! xDD
Making Off del segundo videoclip de 'APT.' , "Veneno" a cargo de los chicos de Alterado! Producciones .
Director: Sebastián Soto y Nicolás Soto
Producción: Alterado!
Released: 12 de Enero, 2007
Location: Club Hipico, Santiago de Chile
Fotos: Sebastián Isla Decap.
Making Spaces aims to develop a national strategy to sustainably integrate making into schools across the country. The Bubbler at Madison Public Library was excited to be a Midwest hub in partnership with Madison Metropolitan School District to create making & learning spaces in our schools.
As a hub, the Bubbler provided our schools with development and support to help jumpstart and sustain maker education in classrooms. This included facilitating professional development around making & learning, connecting schools & community makers to build a mindset & goals for making spaces, and successfully launching crowd sourcing campaigns for schools to raise funds and support.
Photos by library staff.
CJ, as usual, making unusual friends
Added for the February 2008 Monthly Scavenger Hunt pool - Xenophobe
Following the PFDF in the internet brought back memories from my trip to Paris last Summer and I realised the thing I miss the most is macaroons! LOL. The problem is there isn't a single bakery around here that would sell decent macaroons so, haunted by cravings, I made some today myself! My hubby was pretty happy to have a selection of chocolate, pistachio, coconut and cherry macaroons waiting for him when he got home from work. :)
BTW: I used no artificial colourings and was surprised how much colour the ingredients gave to the macaroons.
I'm making a syrup that I can mix with soda water for homemade tonic. The gin is waiting impatiently!
I'm using Jeffry Morgenthaler's recipe. This is before I added the cinchona bark powder.
So far, so good. It smells nice.
Making a rice monarch was an educational activity at the Minneapolis Monarch Festival.
Photo by Mara Koenig/USFWS
Here is the quick dish I put together to try out our fresh mozzarella. This tri-color pasta also uses sun-dried tomatoes, caramelized onions, lots of fresh basil, spaghettini, Parmesan, and a drizzle of olive oil. Yum.
Calyptorhynchus baudinii.
Baudin's black cockatoo resident of Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre, visiting Henderson Environment Centre at Star Swamp Bushland Reserve
Mr Ho and Mrs Viet are repairing the water pump for the fish pond. © ILO/Truong Van Vi
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The singing sorceress...Celestine Warbeck ( and the Banshees), Wizarding Wireless Network, Wizarding World of harry Potter, Universal Studios. Orlando, Florida, USA 2014
The group camped next to us in Waimanu were making these fresh laulaus using meat from a pig they'd killed in the valley earlier in the day. Over the weekend they caught three wild pigs in the valley, built a smokehouse, smoked most of the meat, and then carried it out -- some by kayak, and some on foot.
Here the the final knot is being tied around the bundle.
Expressive lines and mark making with word - anger.
1. Ink 2. Black pencil
3. Oil pastel 4. Thin charcoal
Thoughts/what makes me angry:
-Where do I begin?
Angry, gives me permission to make spiky lines and scribble everything out. Make crosses.
I listened to a range of rock/heavy metal music such as: Linkin Park, Prodigy, Paparoach, Alice Cooper.
I usually express anger through painting or writing, here I was doing a creative activity of a different kind. It's good to feel anger sometimes, it brings out a more expressive you to the surface. People do productive things with their anger - singing, poetry, art. Telling people how you feel (which is healthy) in a creative form (expressive). It's ok to feel angry (it's natural), channeling anger into a positive action turns it into opportunity/optimism. Everything happens out of either inspiration or frustration.
Anger wasn't a hard emotion to capture as I first thought, it felt good to do jagged lines, scribbles and going over marks. It made me think more about the type of things that make me angry and question why people do certain things.
Spent the first half of the day at the NES Championship qualifier tourney, spent the second half of the day at the Dallas Fan Expo, or Comic Con, or whatever you want to call it. I forgot my 3DS, so I sulked around taking pictures of cosplayers, and even stopped in for the Billie Piper (of Doctor Who fame) Q&A session in the arena.