The Coffinmaker by Dan McComb
Each year, Americans bury enough metal in the ground to rebuild the Golden Gate Bridge, according to coffinmaker Marcus Daly, the subject of this unusual craft documentary from Dan McComb.
Love Letter to Plywood. By Tom Sachs by Tom Sachs
If steel is the king of building materials, then plywood is surely the queen. All hail the strength, pliability and beauty of this ligneous matriarch!
Jim Power and the Mosaic Trail by Etsy
For over thirty years, Jim Power — also lovingly referred to as Mosaic Man — has been transforming the Lower East Side of Manhattan with mosaics, one lamppost at a time.
Handmade Portraits: The Bone Carver by Etsy
As a boy on King Island, off the coast of Alaska, Sylvester Ayek learned the ways of his Iñupiat elders: hunting, foraging, and carving ivory and wood. Today he sells his artwork to supplement his subsistence lifestyle, struggling to maintain Iñupiat traditions in a quickly changing world.
BiG | Jeremy Wintrebert by Jérôme de Gerlache
Is bigger better? In his latest project, artist Jeremy Wintrebert works very hard to prove that it is. The fact that he and his team happen to be working with one of the most fragile materials on Earth only steepens the challenge.
An Exploration in Craft - Featuring: Tanner Goods by Ryan Bush
Filmmaker Ryan Bush takes us behind the scenes at Tanner Goods to see all the history and technique that goes into making one of the company’s leather belts. “Mass-produced products have their own spot,” says Sam Huff, Tanner’s Creative Director, “but for what we’re trying to accomplish it has to be done in smaller batches.”