I went to a bookstore today to pick up Shonda Rhimes’ new book, Year of Yes. While I was in the store, I saw an origami kit for sale that embraced the adult coloring book trend. The intent was for people to color the origami paper, then fold the paper into models. I’m not personally […]
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Happy Pi Day (of the century, no less)
March 14 is Pi Day. This year is even more fun because it’s 2015, so: 3.1415. Take time of day into account, and it gets even *more* fun than that. As my contribution to the parade of Pi Day projects, here’s a cartoon π eraser stamp I made while watching Darren Aranofsky’s π:
February Round-Up
This month has been the kind of busy that didn’t leave much time for this blog. I did want to post the few things before the month is up, so here goes.
Paper Lights
I’ve been using Jie Qi’s paper circuits lessons from the MIT High Low Tech group for workshops for a while. I have a workshop coming up soon, so I wanted to brush up on paper circuits. I bought LEDs for the workshop that are too small for the group I’m using them with, so I’m […]
Jellies, revisited
For day 1, I did an eraser stamp of a jellyfish. One of the reasons I do stamp drawings on tracing paper even if no tracing is involved is that it’s easy to reuse a drawing for another stamp. When I finished the other jelly stamp, I realized that the same drawing would work for […]