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OK, hands up if you want to print your own T-shirts but can’t be bothered with all the equipment that silkscreening requires. Jeebus, that’s a lot of hands. Well, we’ve found a way to mimic screenprinting that takes half the time and only requires some freezer paper and fabric paint. It’s so easy you may find yourself printing photos on everything:
Let the printing obsession commence! Custom Photo Silhouette T-Shirts p.s. If you want to try your hand at genuine silkscreening, here’s a simplified version. p.p.s. Amit will be at Photokina next week hunting down fun photo gear. If you’re there and want to meet up, drop him a line! |
Sure, you can press a button and take a mini motion picture. But what about the well-loved, handheld, movie-in-your-pocket flip book? Our favorite form of animation, the flip book is the original, prehistoric movie. We’ve doodled thousands of stick figures in the corners of our notebooks. It’s time for photos. We’ve made digital flip books. We’ve made stop-motion videos. We’ve even uploaded photos and purchased a flip book from FlipClips for 10 bucks or so. Then we stumbled across The Curious Blog’s beautiful, handmade flip book. We had to try it ourselves. We’re flippin’ out over the final product: a squat little choppy movie, our DIY photo flip book will make your thumbs sore from showing it off to all your photo-loving friends. Photojojo’s DIY Photo Flip Book |
At 7’6″, Yao Ming is one of the tallest Olympians, one of the most revered basketball players across the world, and we’re willing to bet, were there an Olympic competition for aerial photography, he’d score heads above the rest. Puns aside, getting a camera up into the air is no small (or short) feat. We’re not all tall like Yao Ming, and we don’t always have access to a kite or a plane… Plus, tripods and professional monopods are expensive and weigh about a gajillion pounds. So, we made our own Photojojo Sky-Cam, just for you and just in time for your own photography Olympics. Transform your group shots, crowd shots, your super-secret, Bond-ian spy shots into “how’d-you-do-that,” Andreas Gursky-like works of high art. |
The smell of the road, the wind at your back, infinity miles per gallon… Riding your bike sure is sweet. But you know what would make it even sweeter? The tried-and-tested, make-it-yourself, $10 + 10 minutes Photojojo BikeCam! Just don’t assemble it while moving. And stop at all red lights. And stop signs. And use your hand signals. And wear a helmet, for pete’s sake. Your brain’s in there. Read on to find out how… The Photojojo DIY BikeCam — $10/10 minutes p.s. WeSay is running a photo contest — submit election-related photos by the end of the week and they’ll be featured on the homepage of their national website. The winner’s photo will be shown as the ‘hero shot’! Submit your entry on WeSay.com or email politicspics@wesay.com |
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It’s guest time here at Photojojo! Please give a rousing Photojojo welcome to… all the way from Rochester, New York… our buddies from Kodak! Photojojo: Hi Kodak, welcome to the show. And what do you have for us today? Kodak: Well Photojojo, we’ve got a DIY bookmark you can make from your photos! When it’s done, it looks like you’ve got a person sticking out of your book. Photojojo: Wow, okay, that sounds cool. Kodak: Also, it has magnets. Photojojo: AWESOME! We are so in! So, without further ado, let’s… Make A Magnetic Photo Bookmark p.s. Wanna help out with the Photojojo Book? Send us your picture by July 18th and we might put you in the book! Click here to see what kinds of pictures we need. |
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The white walls in your place have begun to loom, haven’t they? Glaring down at you, bare as the Gobi Desert when the camels are on holiday. And hark! That box of photos in the closet that you’ve been meaning to organize is starting to whisper to you. “Put me up,” the photos mutter. “Show me off!” Of course, hearing these things means you are probably insane. But before the funny farm comes to take you away, you might as well sort out your wall and photo problem. Grab a handful of bulldog clips and a few nails and put up some pictures. That’ll show those imaginary voices who’s boss. Poppytalk and amberminty gave us the idea. |
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If one of your New Year’s resolutions was to carry a camera with you everywhere, your little snapshooter may be looking a bit bruised by now. Fear not, intrepid reader. We have a guaranteed* way to guard your camera from scratches, bumps, political persecution, alien invasion and fire ants. Pink Penguin’s tutorial shows you how to make a stinkin’ cute padded case for your compact camera. All you need is a little scrap fabric, some padding and a sewing machine. (Or a friend who has those things and can be easily bribed.) Protect your camera: fire ants are wily and they are everywhere! *Guarantee meaningless: we had our fingers crossed. Sew Your Own Camera Case |
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We recently saw this cool post on Craft Chi* about inkjet transfer stamping, and our brains nearly exploded. “Hmmm,” we thought, “we could use our inkjet printer to mimic rubber stamps, only we could use our own pictures.” “In fact,” we mused, “we could go beyond plain old stamps and go full-color. Golly Moses,” we postulated, “we could transfer photos onto paper, or wood, or nearly anything, just like Xerox transfers but without the fumes!” We would have gone on thinking huge and glorious thoughts, except the bus driver got tired of our muttering to ourselves and waving our arms around and kicked us off the bus. But our humiliation is your gain, sweet reader, because after we walked home, we wrote an image transfer tutorial just for you. Armed only with an inkjet and some copier transparencies, you too can put images on anything you like. *via Craft! p.s. Thanks to all our peeps who came to see us at Maker Faire this weekend! We feel so loved. |
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Harsh, unflattering flash got you down? Grab an old roll of film and make it all better. Keep reading and we’ll show you how to make your very own little piece of genius. Film Canister Flash Diffuser p.s. Thanks to everybody who sent in book ideas! You rule. |
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Wanna know the only phrase we remember from high-school Russian class? This means 2 things: So we have a pencil project this week! Wrap some photos around your pencils, and we guarantee you’ll be the coolest kid on your block. (Well, you know, the coolest kid that has photo pencils.) p.s. Want to design the new Photojojo T-shirt? The winner of our design contest gets a free Eye-Fi, plus a credit and a link when we announce the winner. Check out Pixish for details! p.p.s. We have new episodes of Donnie’s “You Suck at Photoshop” tutorials. (Remember, some folks might be offended.) |
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