I always found flip books fascinating, therefore I had to present an instruction on how to make it youself from your own film.
I really must try it one day ;-)
Category: Digital
Tartan Generator
Sometimes you need a nice background and I recommend the Tartan Maker for all those who like Tartan patterns.
On the picture I tried to make a Tartan which matches the blog.
Matches great, doesn’t it?
;-)
Links:
Tartan Maker
Lenticular Images from Your Photos
A lenticular image is an image that looks different depending on how you look at it.
photojojo published a tutorial on how to make such an image.
I already did the first steps:
From those images
I created this one ;-)
I just have to print the picture, to cut it, fold it, stuff it into the frame … ;-))
By the way, I ‘cut’ the pictures in stripes with the help of Splitz, a little freeware program. That was faster ;-) (Links see below)
Links:
4 Easy Steps to Making Old-Fashioned Lenticular Images from Your Photos
Wikipedia entry: Lenticular image
Kali
From time to time I like to play around with programs to create beautiful pictures.
Kali is one of those.
I can enjoy myself with it for hours ;-)
On the picture you see a pattern that I created.
I made a tile by cropping which I coloured in afterwards:
Then I re-combined the coloured tiles to get a repeating pattern.
In the end I made the whole pattern a little more 3D:
Beautiful, isn’t it?
Links:
At Topology and Geometry Software: Kali
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘digital’
Entries with the tag ‘repeating pattern’
Here at unikatissima: Programs to make beautiful pictures with:
Knotsbag
Fractal Art (Fractal Explorer)
Self-made Landscapes (Terragen)
Droste Effects
Where the hell is Matt?
I told before, that I’m stretching regularly to prevent me from getting pain from crafting or from needlework.
Now I have something new that I do occasionally: I’m dancing with Matt.
I’m playing the video Dancing 2008 and dance in the same way that he does (and lots of other people with him).
Afterwards I’m happy and relaxed and my shoulders are enthusiastic to continue to participate in knitting the next item ;-))
Links:
At Where the hell is Matt?: Videos
Somewhere stands the following text: “High quality downloadable versions available here, courtesy of the nice folks at Stride gum.“.
The video is very big (about 70MB I think), but it is worth looking!
I also liked looking the older videos (Dancing 2006 und Dancing 2005).
And reading the FAQ ;-)
Here at unikatissima: Pain From Crafting
Photograph the Holidays
I found an article where different points concerning photographing the Holidays are explained.
This way you can surely make beautiful pictures, but sometimes it pays to practice a little bit beforehand ;-)
When preparing this entry it crossed my mind that I once photographed Christmas glass ornaments so that fractal patterns resulted.
I even found back the blog entry where I got the idea from :)
Links:
At photojojo: How to Photograph the Holidays
At flickr: Christmas Chaos
At evil mad scientist: Christmas Chaos
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘fractal’
Home-built 3-D Printer
Evil Mad Scientist is always good for a surprise.
He presented a kind of home-built 3-D printer which works with sugar!
Great to make your Christmas tree ornaments ;-))
I really don’t think that I will build such an item, but I found it very interesting ;-)
Links:
At Evil Mad Scientist: Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar
Photo Pencils
A lovely little gift could be the photo pencils with your own photo.
I really like the idea, it is similar to the paper pen decoration, but this time with your own photos and for a couple of pencils.
Furthermore it must be nice to decorate the recycled magazine rollups that I presented yesterday instead of pencils by glueing the clippings of your own photo on the paper rolls :)
Links:
Make Your Own Photo Pencils
Here at unikatissima:
Paper Pen Decoration
Recycled Magazine Rollups
A Mailable Mosaic
An advent calendar doesn’t always have to be a lot of filled boxes, why not simply mailing a card a day?
It is more exciting for the recipient if the cards put together form a poster.
Photojojo shows how to make a poster with 24 cards from a photo. I think that you can also use a self-designed Christmas card for an advent calendar.
And on the back you can write a nice, amusing or inspiring aphorism (apart from the address ;-)).
Links:
Bei Photojojo: How to Turn a Photo into a Mailable Mosaic
Google search result for ‘aphorism’
Google search result for ‘aphorismus’
Here at unikatissima: Boxes not only for the advent calendar
Make Your Own Sticker Glue
Because I don’t like to buy stuff I was glad about the tutorial on how to make your own sticker glue.
I’d like to try it on self designed labels for my teas.
Links:
Make Your Own Sticker Glue