From the Flickr Pool

It's not often that I pull out one item from the DudeCraft Flickr pool, but I really love this Mushi Brooch by Mainichi. Leather and kimono silk. Yeah, that's awesome.

More Tumblin' Dice

Building on the letterpress dice prints from yesterday, the Make blog has unearthed this incredible video from the British band, Fujiya and Miyagi that uses thousands of rotated dice to create some serious stop-motion goodness. Wow!

Chocolate Painting

Joe pointed me to this sweet (pun intended) tutorial on chocolate painting. The process, it turns out, is a lot like the one I use to make my papercut portraits. Now, who's going to make me a Kim Novak cake for my next birthday?

via Eye Candy

Party on my Head - Disco Bike Helmet

So, I had this idea. The thought of it made me laugh. The sight of it makes everyone laugh. Mission accomplished.


Dudecraft's Disco Bike Helmet from Paul Overton on Vimeo.

Sometimes you have to just do something stupid for the good of mankind. I chose to make the unsafest safety helmet in history. Not only did I cover my helmet with shiny shards of glass, but I also decided to put a 6" carriage bolt, smack in the middle of my skull. Okay, so that part isn't so genius, but a disco ball helmet? C'mon, that's pretty funny, right?

As far as the build goes, as you can see, I used stuff that is all available from your local hardware store, except for the roller skate wheel. I stole that from a small, unsupervised child.

Please bear in mind, this is only the prototype. I ran out of tiles early on and couldn't finish the whole helmet. Also, the whole contraption is butt ugly. Keep an eye out for a prettier version in the future. Oh, and if there are any electrical geniuses out there who can figure out how to have the wind generate power for the lights, hit me up and let's collaborate!

Stukenborg Letterpress Dice Prints

Friend of the blog, Ed tipped me to these amazing prints that are made by laying out dice, one-by-one letterpress-style, and then rolling them with ink. Thanks, Ed! These are awesome. More over at Paper Crave.

Small World - The Work of Isaac Cordal

London artist, Isaac Cordal has been busy placing these small, cement sculptures around Europe and then photographing them. I love things that play with scale like this, making the viewer consider previously unnoticed scenes in the urban landscape. More here.

via This Blog Rules

Joyride

I'm totally digging on this flat-pack, no-tools-necessary kiddie car by Per Brolund. Where is the adult sized version? I'd love to Fred Flintstone this thing around town.

via NotCot

Best of the DudeCraft Flickr Pool

Whoa! I am way behind on showcasing reader's work. Apologies to all for the long wait and a big thanks to you for uploading all of your amazing projects!

Sweet papercut by PaperKutz

Max by Kebatronic


Beautiful photo from A Sense of Place


Pick Your Ride from Good Gorilla


Amazing Phone Box stamp from Eraser Carver


RDJ from Bernie Levine


Another amazing Jewelry piece by Wendy at Hammermarks


Cross stitch by Ptolemy Clark


Mountain of Cupcakes by Felted Chicken


Braille Pillow by Schinders


Bleach Stencil by Raygun Robyn


DIY plumbing Rack by Pudtiny


Customized headphones by Batzy

Want to see your project featured on DudeCraft? Head on over to the Flickr pool and upload the goodness!

Book 'Em Dan-O

I love this idea for book planters from Gartenkultur. A hole saw, a book, and BLAM. Sweet decor.

via NotCot

Digital Daffodil Pavilion

Gina, who is a second-year landscape architecture student at Penn State, sent along these pics of the recently completed Daffodil Pavilion on campus. All the elements were designed digitally and constructed using a computer controlled mill by the students. The design itself was inspired by flower petals and, unlike many of the sculptures around campus, students are encouraged to interact with the pavilion, rearranging petals or simply sitting inside. Nice work, people!

Rally-ing Cry

Who takes a five-hundred dollar, twenty year-old, craigslist BMW, makes it into a rally car, enters it in an FIA sanctioned event and then takes third place in his class? Bill Caswell does. The word badass doesn't even begin to describe it.

via Jalopnik

Corrugated - The Work of Mark Langan

Debb from the excellent Hand Pecked blog sent me a link yesterday to these amazing pieces by self-taught artist Mark Langan. Striking, no?

Dog Shots

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of all things dog. I have four of the critters running around my house and I wouldn't trade all that insanity for anything. Usually though, I'm not a big fan of dog photographers. I find most pet photography to be workmanlike and a bit boring, to tell the truth. But every once in awhile, you find someone who is a photographer first, and a pet photographer second. Such is the case with Maarten Wetsema. I love this guy's portraits. You will too. Check out his whole portfolio here.

via NotCot

NYC Polaroid Project

I dig Polaroids, so obviously I'm loving Andrew Faris' NYCPP. Something about the format always reminds me of the heightened reality of childhood, endless Summers, and those cheesy photo cubes. What could be better than that?

via SwissMiss

What's Cookin' in the Studio

First time in forever that I've been able to spend a whole day in the studio, so I decided to cut some paper. No surprise there. I absolutely love this image. I've been trying to find the photographer who shot the original picture that I based this on. If anyone out there knows, please fill me in. Thanks!

Neat Nests

I'm loving the design of Neat Nests, and they definitely did the right thing in hiring artists to create their designs. One can only hope though, that they're gong to sell a "blank" version so the rest of us can get our paint on. Now, that would be really smart.

via The Jailbreak

Measured Inspiration

I love how simple and cool the vintage tape measure pics are over at Cathe Holden's blog. I swear, that woman can make anything out of anything.

Stop, In The Name of Style

I love a good link on a Monday morning! Totally digging on Boris Bally's (great name) street sign furniture. I bet you will too. Way more over at his site.

Flatstock

I have very little interest in ever going to SXSW. I mean, it looks fun, but it also looks crowded, and I get itchy even being at a cocktail party. There are some things about it that I wish I could see, though. Flatstock, the gig poster show, is one of those things. I love me some gig posters.

via Printeresting via NotCot

Crazy Bald Head

Phillip Levine isn't one to take male pattern baldness lying down. When he started to go bald in his 20s, instead of getting plugs or pondering a comb-over, he decided to make his head a canvas instead. Awesome. Read the whole story here.