Nerd Out
Dear Readers,
From today through next Tuesday from morning through night, I’ll be at SXSW interactive, which you might know is going on here in good Austin. So I might be a little more absent than usual, but hopefully I’ll come back full of ideas!
Did you know there’s even a panel today of crafting interest? It’s called High-Tech Craft: Why Sewing and Knitting Still Matter. The description says:
Traditional crafts such as knitting and sewing are surging in popularity today thanks to the growing Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement. These modern crafters on the panel not only promote the notion of DIY, they are using technology to reclaim these old techniques. From soft circuits and mathematical knitting to fashion technology and wearable computing, find out more about this new trend of high-tech…
Panelists: Natalie Zee Drieu (Senior Editor, CRAFT Magazine), Syuzi Pakhchyan (SparkLab), Alison Lewis (Producer, IHeartSwitch), Mouna Andraos (Electronic Crafts), Diana Eng (Fashion Designer, Diana Eng)
Mostly I will be going to panels about promoting community via the interwebs (actually, the crafting one still works for that, doesn’t it?), including things on promoting nonprofit interests or causes via the web, volunteerism, and other sorts of lovely interesting things.
NERD FUN! See you soon, y’all 
Holy Pete! Those are nails?
My mom sent me an email with the following pictures in it that I just had to share. I don’t know who the artist is, or where he is – and what I really want to know, how did he get the idea to do this?
All I can tell you is that the pictures say. The site is in Arabic, which I know not a word of, so if you do, perhaps you can figure out who this is? Isn’t it incredible?
That’s an incredible outfit
That took a long time to crochet. Talk about your unique outfits. Wonder if he has more like that?? What do you suppose he’s working on next? (via Charchaa)
