Tag: book
A Pop-Up Book To Treasure: Creative Inspiration
As many of you know, my very best Twitter friend and Bit Rebels writer, @mistygirlph, loves pop-up books. In this article about a very inspiring pop-up book she found, she said that she hopes to design her own some day. So Misty, I'm dedicating this article to you!
Illustrator Benjamin Lacombe ...
Recycle Art: The Best Use Of Old Books To Date!
I consider myself to be an average book reader, but I can't say that I have truck loads of them sitting around on my book shelves. I would much rather read what's online instead of disconnecting myself from the bit world. With the world changing its focus to a more PDF driven society, it is gettin ...
Piperoid Paper Pipe Robots: Fun with Paper Tubes!
I love paper art. Its a great way to recycle! There are so many things now that we can do with paper as art. For example, we have the famous origami from Japan, and also the pop up paper books that are so much fun to read. It has been a dream for me to make my own pop up book. I wish I had the ...
Magic Wand Scanner: Digitalize Your Photos Or Text Anywhere!
So far scanners have been bulky for the most part. There have been flatbed scanners that take up almost half of your desk, but they were later reduced to incorporate a fax machine, printer, USB dock and much much more. This made it possible to pretty much put it anywhere, but it still took up unne ...
iPads To Replace Textbooks In Some Schools!
If you are a parent like me, you know that sooner or later you will have an "I remember when..." story to tell your child. Of course, my mother's story went something like, "I remember walking for two miles in the snow just to get to the bus stop." Okay Mom, I get it that I had it easier growing u ...
How To: Create a Flip Book
Most of you for sure have seen cartoon animations, the ones shown now are very different from when we were younger. The majority are now in 3D, and they are spectacular. Most of my friends from college went to work for animation companies, and they deal with cell animation. This is a very tedious ...
Smart Car Snuggie: The Awesome Work Of 20 Knitting Grannies
We have covered a couple of amazing snuggies here on Bit Rebels, and we are not about to stop anytime soon. First it was the splendid and hugely successful "Snuggies For Geeks" article by Diana and after that one I covered the African "Whole Body Snuggies." Now it's time to cover something entirel ...
Disturbing Comics To Make You Laugh (or Cringe)
I'm a big comic book fan. I'm hard to please though when it comes to comedy, so my favorite comic strips are usually the ones with dark, unexpected, even gory humor. I like those comics that take familiar happy characters and turn them into something completely different. Those are really the onl ...
Sophisticated Book Sculptures – Recycling Inspiration
At first glance, I bet you wouldn't guess the sculptures you see below are created from used books, would you? These lovely flowering pieces of art represent deeply personal representations of events as seen by designer Jacquline Rush Lee.
She's been working with used books for almost a decade. ...
Obsessive Consumption – How Much Money We Spend Illustrated
Personal finances are just that, personal. I notice that people start to get uncomfortable when the topic comes up. Unfortunately, we aren't taught in school how to manage our money, so it's kind of hit or miss. We either have a mentor that helps us or we don't, and either way, many times it's th ...
Interactive Shirts – The New Trend
As you all know by now, I am a t-shirt guy. I mean, really. I save them like they were the most precious thing in the world. I sometimes get t-shirts given to me by companies from around the world because of the kind of work I do (producing, writing songs, blogging, etc...). Sometimes they pile ...
World’s Fastest Book Scanner – Technology On Steroids!
I never stop marveling over how far us humans are able to push things, especially technology. I remember when I was a little kid during the '80s and a friend of mine got a new computer from his dad's office. It was a moderately powerful PC which of course only hooked up to BBSs through a 1200 baud ...
Turn Back Time With This Beautifully Handcrafted iPad Case
As so many people slowly make the transition from reading traditional books to reading on kindles and iPads, it seems many of us are feeling nostalgic about the look and feel of old fashioned books. I can assure you that libraries are still alive. I just took my son to a library yesterday; however ...
Crazy Cool Phone Book Sculptures – Recycling Inspiration
Does anyone really use phone books anymore? I know I haven't in years. The moment I get them, I immediately throw them in the recycle bin. My mother is the only person I know that still uses a phone book. Everyone else I know uses the Internet to find phone numbers.
Treehugger.com featured an ...
Here’s The New Footbook – Showing You The Steps Of Others
One would think that it is an attempt to create the next generation social networking site, inheriting it's name from the biggest networking site out there, Facebook. However, that's where you are wrong. This is something far more interesting and... oh should I say, weird. I was quite intrigued b ...