The plie, many times misspelled as "plea", is commonly used ballet technique and is usually used to warm-up at the barre. When learning how to do a plie, it's important to note the differences between the demi-plie and the grand-plie, which is a deep knee bend taking your body all the way to the floor. Get your plie skills down with help from this dance tutorial.
Getting into ballet? The arabesque ballet is a fairly difficult move and is usually put off until a dancer is conditioned and ready for such a move, usually around the third year of their training. Find out the proper way to do an arabesque with help from a ballet instructor in this video tutorial.
Be a prima ballerina and get a tutu! Not sure which kind? Ballet tutus have taken on a variety of different forms over the years. Learn about all the different styles of tutus from an expert in this ballet video.
Got a pair of dirty ballet slippers? Learn the best & most effective way to clean your shoes up to make them look new. When cleaning ballet slippers, you need to take into consideration what type of ballet slipper it is. Determine the best way to clean your ballet slippers with help from this video.
Before you learn anything, the five basic ballet positions are what is needed first. In this video tutorial, learn the five basic ballet positions: first, second, third, fourth & fifth - and how to do them correctly with the right footwork & posture.
Predicting the future is always cool.. what if you could do it with just a piece of paper? With this tutorial, learn how to fold an origami fortune teller and at least pretend you can predict what will happen! All you need is a single sheet of paper and some pens or markers to record your fortunes and you are on your way. This is a great little thing to make anytime you are bored with friends - work, school, on the bus, anywhere!
Danby Taylor from the University of Maryland University College teaches how to write an abstract research paper for graduate school Analyze the things that you read so you can extract the essential information such as the goal or the purpose of the reading in your own sentence. Learn the methods or ways of how the author studied the subject and reached the results of the study. Pay attention to details and write in a block paragraph, without indentations. Write one or two sentences about each...
This explanation of positive and negative signs in addition is beneficial and easy to understand for young school aged children. The tutor of this video explains briefly about what to do with the different signs on both side of addition problem. The number line helps the viewer of this video to visually understand the concepts discussed. The tutor explains the direction of number line evaluation is dependent on the left side operand, which is also used to understand the concept of a number line.
Get help with your math homework and learn to find the area of a trapezoid by watching this video. Following along while four examples are solved, the viewer will learn how to calculate the area when all the required measurements are given and will learn to calculate distance of one side when the area of the trapezoid is known. If you are learning about measurement in school or are trying to find the areas of a trapezoid for another reason (maybe you are carpeting an oddly shaped room), this ...
Come on, who doesn't love sugary sweet Rice Krispy treats! Super easy to make, even small kids can help. This recipe puts a spin on traditional treats and makes a healthier even better version. You can add peanut butter as a source of protein and energy. You use organic or non brown Rice Krispys because it contains a lot less sugar than the regular stuff. Perfect as an afternoon surprise for when your kids get home from school. Plus, you will not feel bad about serving them.
Elementtatootech explains the various tools of the industry and their uses to novice tattoo artists and interested viewers. In this tutorial, Elementtatootech focuses on the old school tattoo tool known as grommets or nipples. Utilizing a single close up shot, the instructor quickly educates viewers on the purpose of the grommet in addition to the most common users of the device. The instructor additionally shows viewers how to set up and assemble using this tool and a simple trick utilizing ...
Try out this old school street hustler card trick. See if you can find where the queen is hiding, then see if you can perform the trick. It's a truly amazing card trick that will impress anyone, or enrage anyone (if money is involved). This hustling trick is known as the "three-card monte".
Does anything other than normal text seem like a daunting task in Photoshop? It's really quite simple, once you get the hang of it! In this video tutorial, learn how to create a text reflection effect in Adobe Photoshop to give your text a mirrored twin. In a few simple steps, you can create this look for your graphic design project. Whether it be a brochure, school project or business card, it's always nice to give your asthetic layout a little boost with creative text.
Fit for a Feast hosts a kids cardio workout including Salsa steps, sit-ups, jumping jacks and more. This is a great warm-up for kids on their way to sports or dance class; it can also be used for Q.D.F. (Quality Daily Fitness) at school. With a Latin American cd in your stereo and this tutorial, you're child will be working up a sweat in no time! Be sure to stretch before you begin!
Get the inside scoop on Wizard101 hacks, cheats, tricks, tips, and walkthroughs! Watch this video tutorial to learn how to get to do tricks in Wizard101. This video will teach you how to these simple tricks if you don't already know how.
Animation controls run on the bottom of the screen. The time slider is the most important control for designing frames in Maya. Playback is exactly intuitive. This is a basic overview of Maya animation protocol and a lesson in using Maya tools.
Check out this video from Sessions on using the color wheel. Better understand color relationships, color schemes and color theory. This is a great lesson for designers, artists, stylists and decorators. Create color harmony using the color wheel. Tutorial video from Sessions Online Schools of Art & Design's "Color Theory" course. Part of Sessions' Graphic, Web, Digital Arts, Marketing, and Multimedia Arts Design certificate programs.
Creating curves with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator is a good challenge. Check out this video on both drawing and editing with the pen tool. Click once in a place and then drag. This pulls out the direction handles.
This is not charm school. Far from trying to maintain perfect posture, the man in this video is training his ability to balance things on his head for the love of sport, the sport of freestyle soccer. Here, you will learn how you to can pull of the iconic Head Stall freestyle soccer move, in which the ball in balanced on the player's head for as long as possible.
This video shows how to remove a rental sticker from a Nintendo NES game cartridge! All you need is: 1) Goo-Gone or De-Solv-It 2) 1 cotton ball 3) A smidgen of patience
March, 2047. A massive nuclear fireball explodes high in the night sky, marking the dramatic beginning to the Third Tiberium War and long-awaited return of the most groundbreaking Real-time Strategy franchise (RTS) of all time. This is Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
This video tutorial explains how to strip insulated wire the right way. You'll learn how to adjust your wire strippers to make the process easier. Some people don't even use wire strippers, they use a knife or maybe even their teeth, but this causes nicks in the copper. To get the insulation off with ease and without gouges in the copper wire, use the proper sized wire strippers and adjust them right to fit the gauge of your wire. It's as simple as that. You don't need to go to vocational sch...
Build stones & cinder blocks for a diorama. Papa Tom teaches viewers how to make a building look like it is made of stone or cinder blocks using the Building and Structure Kit from Scene-A-Rama. This is super easy and tons of fun for all ages. It's great for school or class projects. Use a ruler, a fine point marker, a hobby knife, and a paint brush.
It doesn't get any girlier than feathers and flowers. While it's fine dressing like all the other girls in your school, why not be the Katy Perry to their Blake Lively by dressing up your noggin' in a spectacular, colorful work of art?
When we think of holiday songs, usually "White Christmas," Bing Crosby, and lots of fake snow falling on Bing Crosby while he sings "White Christmas" come to mind. Thanksgiving songs are often neglected or get lost in the shuffle during the very Christmas-centered holiday season.
In this tutorial, we learn how to drop your kids off at preschool. When dropping your kids off, walk them to the front of the gate around the classroom. Give them hugs and kisses and tell them you love them. After this, let them walk into the classroom all by themselves. Kids like to walk in by themselves and feel like a big kid. The classroom isn't big enough for all the mom's and dad's to come in, so just let your child go by themselves. The teacher will take care of them the rest of the day!
Different ways of using a proxy bypass to access blocks sites is shown with ease in this video. Many places explained to be blocked with internet security such as libraries and schools. Using a search engine such as Google you need to search for a proxy site. After a proxy site has been found you will use it to access the blocked websites through another servers internet provider. The narrator explains that proxies are just a way to bypass internet blocks by avoiding using the blocked compute...
Everyone does it. And, apparently, everyone does it late. Procrastination is a problem that affects everyone, from middle schoolers waiting until the last minute to put together their science project to grown men who wait until an hour before to write their marketing pitch.
In this tutorial, we learn how to cheat on any test by wearing a fake bandage. You will need: a phone, ear buds for your phone, bandages, and transparent tape. First you will need to use your phone to record yourself saying the information you need to hear. Read this off your book or notes so all the information is perfectly correct. Now, plug the ear phone into your phone and then slip it through your sleeve before school. Now place it in your hand and wrap the bandage around it. When you ne...
In the mornings when we wake up it seems like our hair is our own worst enemy. It just won't style right, it frizzes out, it won't hold the curls. But getting your hair ready for school or for work doesn't have to be a chore.
In this tutorial, we learn how to read a school box ruler. A ruler will be divided into inches, each inch will be divided in half. From there, it will be in quarters, then eighths, then sixteenths. Once you understand how the inches get divided up into halves, you will be able to read the ruler better. Start off by counting the small lines that you see on the ruler to get an idea of where the eight, quarter, and half inches are located at. After practicing this, you will be able to read a rul...
In this tutorial, we learn how to become a doctor fast. There are many ways to become a doctor, including shortcuts. The first shortcut is if you just got out of high school you can take tests that will test you on knowledge you can study on your own. Just from these you can get credits which will give you extra credit without taking all the time. You can also take summer classes that will get you ahead. If you do this, you will finish your bachelor degree 1.5 years faster. Using these tips y...
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw Tohru Honda. Start out by drawing a circle for the head, then lines on the face to reference where the facial features go. After this, draw a stick for the body alone with a neck. Draw in circles where the shoulders go, then start drawing around that to create the body. Draw on the school uniform for her, then draw on the ear and additional details for the uniform. After this, draw on the bangs and the hair, then add on the bows to the hair. Then, draw o...
Can you believe that "Desperate Housewives" actress Eva Longoria used to be called ugly by her peers in high school? Those mean girls must be getting their just desserts now.
You don't need a ton of makeup to look fresh and sexy. You can tone down your makeup and still look hot! Zhareena shows you how to tone down you look and still appear fabulous, just by using less cosmetics. This makeup look is great for school, running errands, dates, and more! It's really easy to apply and consists of affordable products.
We love bohemian hairstyles: The loose, beachy waves, pretty curls, and sprinkling of braids look princessy and oh so feminine. But when you have to get up at 5 AM in the morning to get ready for school it's not as easy to muster up the patience to plait, pin up, and curl your hair.
Get a few extra Zzzs while still looking drop dead gorgeous for school or work by checking out this makeup tutorial for creating an easy everyday makeup look. Natural is really the way to go for more professinal settings as you can never go over the top with barely there makeup.
We never thought you could wear anything that would make you look cute and sexy all at once, but this bohemian headband with a cute pink bow proves us wrong. Rather than simply teach you how to make a simple two strand bohemian headband in the style of Nicole Richie, your instructor teaches you how to make that headband and attach it to a bow for extra girly appeal.
Unless you're a music theory buff or taking AP Music Theory in school (forced or otherwise), then the only word in "diatonic circle chord progressions" that makes sense to you is "circle." But the fancy schmancy term is just an elaborate way of saying you're playing chord progressions based on the circle of fifths.
In this video, we learn how to create a compelling resume. When you talk about your prior experience, write down something that you learned from your work background, preferably something that matches the job you're applying for. Employers are looking for something you were taught in your experience. Write down any accomplishments you received while on the job, and how well you did them as well. If you're graduated, let them know when you are available for full time work and when you are grad...
