My favorite thing on UChicago's campus is this workshop in the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.
The Ultimate Project Room
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DIY Project Round-Up
Happy new year to you all and welcome to new readers! Now that my subscriber count has surpassed 1,500 (thanks, everyone!) and we've rolled into 2013, I wanted to pause to do a DIY project round-up. Not necessarily comprehensive, just a visual introduction to what goes on around here. 1: Operation Obscurement: Window Film 2: [...]
Portrait of a Doomed Art Project
There might come a time in your life - or perhaps that time has already occurred - when you see a piece of art and think "I bet I could make that!" (Not in the dismissive way that people say "My two-year-old could paint that" but rather "That's a good idea that seems within my [...]
Happy Birthday, AP!
October 4th is my brother Andrew's birthday. He's a maker, not a taker, so he got us all a present in the form of his new music video for Believers, which debuted on Stereogum today. Believers - "Finder" Video from stereogum on Vimeo. It's gorgeous -- "clean-looking and shape-shifting" -- and its black & white palette [...]
Gold Leaf Paint Options
My IKEA VITTSJO nesting table hack gave me the luxury of some scrap metal pieces on which to test a few gold leafing paint options. I did a Google image search when I was considering what sort of paint to use, looking for some clear examples of the different types of finishes. I didn't have [...]
Project Palermo 