The current galacticast episode references Make: and Weekend Projects.

“You know weekend projects with Bre Pettis, his latest episode has this awesome hack to make our microwave use gamma radiation.”

Cracked me up! - Link

This shot is classic hollywood.

For me the most interesting thing in this shot is the other photographers. You can see that they are shooting vertical with a flash right over the lens to get just a little shadow under her chin. I’m going to have to give this a try and make my friends look like this! Go check out streetzen’s other photos too! - [via] Link

Mark sent me an email -

Just to start by saying I love the Make Podcast I noticed in the background of one recently (the WoodBlock prints & Aluminium reliefs), that you have a sort of photo-mosaic of your horse pictures made from numerous small images (possibly 6×4) to make up a larger poster - I’ve attached a screen shot.

I was wondering how you did it - I can imagine you select the print area from a larger image - but it might be a neat idea for a weekend project…..
Hey Mark, It’s an easy idea that is kinda hard to execute. I took 4 shots of a plastic horse with my grandpas old 35mm Nikkormat and I took them with a close up ring on it so that I could get that close and macro. Then went down to pcnw, my local diy photo printing and printed them up big and then fit them together. The horses fit perfect, but the background doesn’t quite, which is an effect I like! It takes about 6 hours to print up a few copies of one photo-mosaic including the battles with dust and perfect sizing. I’ve also done some portraits this way, which I’ll photograph if I can find them. They turned out really cool.

I haven’t tried it out digitally, but I’m inspired by your letter to give it a shot… I suppose that means I have an excuse to get photoshop now! Hmm, have they ironed out the problems with intel macs? Anybody know which is better, apple’s aperture or adobe’s photoshop?

Have you ever wondered what birds live in your neighborhood? With the birdfeeder webcam that Steve and I will teach you to make this weekend, you’ll be able to find out! Using motion detection webcam software, you’ll be able to document every bird that shows up at the feeder and get a picture of it whenever it moves. Check the instruction blogpost for the pdf instructions.

Here’s the live picture from the webcam! (it does gets turned off at night) You can also get to a little birdcam page where it gets updated every thirty seconds.

Of course webcams have been around forever, but with these instructions, they’re easy! You can also use this motion detection feature for security purposes!

Here’s an mp4 that plays on pretty much everything. Here’s an insanely large mov file for hd lovers. Here’s a 3gp and 3g2 for people who like to watch on their phone! Of course if you subscribe in itunes, the videos and accompanying pdf get downloaded automatically for you, no muss no fuss. You can browse all the Make: videos on blip.tv and youtube and revver or on the weekend projects page at your leisure! - Subscribe Link

Originally posted to the Makezine blog. - Link

I recently got a lens for a door peephole at the hardware store. It works pretty good as a lens. it’s not sharp by any means, but it’s fun on a 640×480 scale… hmmm, next stop, the videocamera!

This second one is with the peephole mounted on my webcam which is live sometimes. Check it out! - Link

Related: I did something similar a while back with a gaffer-taped lens on a cellphone. - Link

Flickr has a way of telling if your photos are interesting by how many people look at them, favorite them, comment on them and stuff like that… it’s math.

Wanna know what photos of mine are interesting? - Link

Steve and I made a birdfeeder webcam and we got a bit carried away.

I’m so excited, I just made my webcam work!

So I’ve got it set so that it takes a picture everytime it senses motion rather than have it be like every 30 seconds. This isn’t new technology, but it’s really fun! It’s part of this weekend’s project so you’ll learn all about it this Friday!

Steve taught me that fauxtography is when you say your taking a picture of someone and you take a movie. He got me.

At the end I say, “Pick your moment.” Ha! He got me!

Here’s how I made the above photos.

For each one, I took four photos with the isight and then I imported them into iphoto. Then I went into iphoto preferences and made the background black and took a screengrab. To do that you can shift-apple-4 on a mac or if you the Snaps Pro X, then it’s shift-apple-3. Then I bring it back into iphoto and export it to flickr! Then I submitted it into the fauxtobooth flickr group!

I spent the day researching how to make a real life photobooth. I’ll do a weekend project on that but some code stands between me and that project.