Modern Twists to the Traditional Menorah

Good Morning Fellow SuperForesters!

Chanukah is in full swing and in the thick of all of the Christmas blogging out there, it’s time we write a post on the Festival of Light, a holiday that’s also being referred to as “the most fuel efficient” (Eight days and one cruse of oil? Those are some serious conservation skills my friends). Yesterday, we learned of the modern twist those in Naples have given to their nativity scenes. In keeping with this theme, I noticed that designboom has recently posted a few modern takes on the traditional menorah. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Match Menorah

MIT’s Test Tube Menorah

It’s great to see what results when creativity and centuries of tradition collide. To see some of the other great menorahs I saw, click here.

With Love,
C

The Designboom Cassette Wallet is Awesome (Plus, Four Ways to Make Your Own!)

I just stumbled onto designboom's cassette wallet, and it is good. Real good. Each one is handmade by an artist in Italy named Marcella Foschi, which is a very nice name.

From the mighty 'boom:

"retro wallets hand-made from cassette tapes

as every 'cassette wallet' is hand made,
each design is a one-off. once its gone its gone!"

Righteous. The cassette wallet is 43 smackers Amero. (39 plus S&H)

If you have the means, give signora Foschi the gift of a sale.
If you're more the DIY type, here are four ways to make your own.

instructables.
craftster.org.
threadbanger.
lifehacker.

Of course, quality and difficulty levels will vary, but who doesn't like a challenge?

If anyone makes one of these, do be so good as to snap a picky and send it to: superforestnyc(at)gmail(dot)com. Wheeeee!

Fun!

designboom: Recycled Jewelry

SuperForester Meg just sent us this great link!

Over at designboom, they've got a beautiful multi-page spread of jewelry from around the world made of tantalizing recycled materials.

The pages are ordered roughly according to the materials used, so there's one page for glass & ceramic, one for paper, one for metals, all very beautiful and with links to the artist should you decide you wanty.

Check it:









Check out poor jewelry @ designboom

Special thanks to SuperForester Meg!

Make: Concrete Rings

Over at designboom they've got a great post about 22 Studio and their concrete rings, with the added bonus of a photo walk through of the creation process.

Yay! We like making!



Check it out: 22 Studio's concrete rings