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Having cool, simple, modern furniture in your home is great, but there is the big problem of how to afford that furniture. One way, which has been popular with a certain breed of adventurous souls for a very long time, is to make it yourself. On HomeMade Modern, Ben Uyeda shows how to turn $5 worth of materials into a stool that looks like it cost 10 times as much. The plans are simple and bare..
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This camera is a poor man’s large format camera. It is made with a simple shoebox acting as a dark room.
The lens is a simple glass meniscus (convergent lens) that I found in an old focal doubler. The lens has a focal length of 120mm and thus a large image circle. These simple lens gives large aberrations so once need to place a small aperture in front to minimize distortions of the image.
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[ By Marc in Design & Furniture & Decor. ]
Pallets have become all the rage as eco-friendliness, and DIY crafting are becoming the spearhead of a new movement that utilizes pallets as the building blocks for creative weekend projects. Social media sites like Pinterest make sharing off-the-wall ideas as easy as a click, so the mind boggling variety of uses for used pallets are o..
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Photographer Dominique Vankan wanted to play around with the old Autochrome Lumière process from the early 1900s, so he built himself a custom large format camera using LEGO pieces, cardboard, and duct tape.
Autochrome was the first popular and practical color photography processes, and used dyed potato starch grains dusted onto glass plates and then covered with light-sensitive emulsion. The ..
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Feast your eyes on this gorgeous twin-lens reflex camera that was designed and built from scratch by photographer Kevin Kadooka, a mechanical engineering student at the University of Portland. It uses a Mamiya-Sekor 105mm f/3.5 Chrome lens and has a Polaroid back for shooting 4.25×3.5-inch instant film, and is crafted out of laser-cut birch plywood.
Here’s what Kadooka tells us about making ..
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Photo by StearnsPhotoOne of the secrets of delicious home-cooked meals is having a well-stocked pantry of spices, oils, vinegars and sauces. But before heading off to replenish that bottle of salad dressing, have you given thought to try making it from scratch? We looked at a couple of popular pantry items that are easily (and healthily) replicated in the home kitchen.
Salad Dressing
The occasio..
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This might look like a pile of garbage, but it’s actually one of the homemade camera used by photographer Miroslav Tichý from the 1960s until 1985. He made his camera bodies from things he had on hand, including plywood, road asphalt, and thread spools. His lenses would be created from toilet paper tubes with custom lenses created from Plexiglas that had been sanded with sandpaper and then po..
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