sometimes people are assholes. sometimes those people are photographers. this is one way to deal.

(click image below to watch. will be on youtube once it’s done “processing” but this one is better quality…)

youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np_cULYpPQE

the requirements for the DIY final were to make a tool for someone else. you could be part of the user group. (i am.) i turned an arcade button into a stamp.

user group defined
people who appreciate the nostaligia of arcade games/arcade game machines, and who like to stamp the shit out of things.

the final product
i made a lightning bolt stamp. when you depress the arcade button, the stamp comes down enabling stamping. well, its supposed to. i used too much glue and that part doesnt work. but i’m making a heart one for becky and that one will work. because becky is cute and nice and i like her hair. see the instructable.

note: i did not once harm myself in the creating of this project. i did almost cause an electrical fire, but it was entirely unrelated to this particular endeavor.

heavy duty battery + salt + water + dremel a piece of metal + epoxy a litle bird onto piece of metal = i electrolytically etched a little bird!

see that little hole (top left)? i’m gonna string some chain through it so i can wear it like bling. bird bling.

process photos

big battery powering some chemical reaction with salt and water and stuff

chemical reaction mmm tasty…

for the DIY midterm we were supposed to make something for ourselves, for our home. part of me wishes i was a product design kid. i’ve kind of always been jealous of them, and frank gehry, walking around with their functional carboard chairs. so,

pictures are linked. from left to right: frank gehry, designboom-instructions for carboard chairs by various designers, nick tretiak, student (lostspyder?) chair featured on MAKE blog.

full of hope and inspiration, i set out to create a cardboard chair of my own. it turned out to be more of a tower. for barbie. oh le failure. see the flickr set for more photos.

oh and check out all the times i cut myself.

not sure how i managed to puncture my arm, but what can i say, i’m good like that.

assignment find a how-to online that you can complete in an afternoon, and do it. also, find a how-to that you’d like to do if you had more skills, time, etc.

I made fridge magnets and found the instructable at instructables.com.

I made several themed sets of fridge magnets. The first set of 15 is made from airline safety instructions card i swiped from an airplane, by accident of course. i made another set of 10 from random images from vice magazine. another set is features celebrities from celeb gossip mags for my bff lesley who is obsessed, i repeat, obsessed, with celebrities… finally there is a set with sex ads from the back of the village voice. stay tuned for more themed fridge magnets! i’m really getting into this!

i made airline safety magnets (set of 15)


i made vice magnets (set of 10)

i will insert photos of all the rest of the finished magnets very soon.. until then, view the fridge magnets instructable i used..

i wish i made fridge lights

if i had some more cash lying around and about another week or two for ordering/finding the bits and pieces, i would like to have made magnetic refrigerator lights… (the pictures above are from instructables.com)

i wish i made diy photobooth

what i would reallllly like to do given more time, i.e. this summer, is to make my own photobooth! my friend lena is going to help me. we’re going to make it upload to flickr too. yea! (the picture above is from instructables.com)

it happened before and will happen again: ank & lena in wigs

me and lena in our wigs. can you imagine all the combinations of wig pictures we’re going to have once we build our photobooth! what fun!