Believe it or not, it is absolutely possible to get by without a big refrigerator in your kitchen. After all, before refrigerators became a household staple in the last century, people somehow managed to store their perishable fruits, vegetables, legumes and meats for an extended period of time with ice boxes, root cellars, evaporative cooling pots, preserving, canning and more.
In this After Effects tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz adds to the concepts he covered in his tutorial Straight Vs. Premultiplied and explains how to use the remove color matting effect to fix a bad composite in After Effects. Use the remove color matting effect in After Effects.
Communicate with your deaf dog. Help your dog learn that being touched by surprise is not a bad thing. Communicate with your deaf dog.
How to add volume to lifeless hair in simple steps. Give your hair the lift it needs to avoid the bad hair day. Add volume to flat hair.
Two wrongs don't make a right, and if your swing is erratic, it probably means you are compensating for a bad set-up or grip. Golf gladiator Rickard Strongert explains some of the most common such mistakes. Improve your swing.
Did you paint over your wallpaper? Bad decision. Well if you need to remove the wallpaper you will have to spray it. Or try steaming it and then scraping. Remove stubborn wallpaper.
Car batteries are important to the functioning of your car. They often fuse with old age or bad treatment. This short video will show you how to change your car's battery in 12 easy steps. Change a car battery in 12 easy steps.
Sure, they'll bite and sting and they're pretty much the definition of nasty looking. But that doesn't mean they'll make bad pets... Right? Learn how to take care of your Emperor Scorpion with this straight forward and informative video from Videojug.com. Care for emperor scorpions.
Scrabble Bingo of the Day: MIASMIC [adj] Miasmic is an adjective for miasm (or miasma), which means a noxious vapor—"bad air" harmful to health. The word miasma comes from the ancient Greek word for pollution. And the concept of bad air also gave rise to the name malaria, from old Italian "mala" (bad) "aria" (air).
This is an intermediate guide on how to easily fix or retrieve data from a bad hard drive. What we're trying to do:
I honestly don't know how Ricky is doing so well. Oh well, I guess we have to go though the bad to get to the good...AGAIN.
Ladies, apparently nail polish is a threat to the airline services and may cause profane and abusive language. You were warned.
Older photo form a rather simple phone, a Sony Ericsson W900 (2Mp was as bad as the very first iPhone - except this Sony came a year earlier).
A DIY car laptop mount that uses the cup holder... You think texting and driving is bad, wait until it's true multitasking and driving. Ouch.
A photo of a friend I photoshopped into a mad but maybe not that menacing zombie, don't think it came out too bad, a little dark possibly on the bg...
Time-out may only be for a few minutes, but to a child it is a cold and desolate wasteland that you are banished to for an eternity.
I can't remember who this was, but saw them at the Troubadour. They were opening for another band. There was like two people there for the opener. Felt kinda bad, but that's life.
(Warning, cuss words throughout)
This is my first game using the Lazy Brain method, I have to say, it ain’t bad at all. The graphics are sweet and the gameplay is something farmiliar with a few of my own twists. Also features an online highscore board.
Don't underestimate the power of the bird. Wild turkeys are bad ass fowl, and oddly enough, they have a penchant for motorcycles.
Something in your life getting a little stinky? No worries--it happens to the best of us. Whether it is your musty bedroom, stuffy car or four-legged friend, unpleasant odors have a way of infiltrating our daily lives. Below are 5 DIY ways to deodorize bad smells no matter where they are coming from.
KEH has a great website and awesome resources for photographers who don't need the newest thing, but know lots of other photographers do, which means KEH is there to scoop up all the gently-used and barely-used gear for the more budget minded or just plain more sensible. Also, KEH is the go-to place for vintage equipment. Who needs to get in a bidding war on eBay and pay more than the true value of a vintage camera? Keep your eye on KEH instead.
Scream 4, a call-back sequel to the 10+ yr. old Scream franchise is not too bad, according to Matt Brown. But if you ain't gonna go see it, he's got something for you to watch instead...
Mike 'The Greek' reveals his favourite to win best picture of 2011: Exit Through The Gift Shop. Too bad it's not nominated... Will Banksy settle for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar instead? Mike says he'll have to.
Unkown is not bad, if you think of it as a B-movie. Go in with those expectations and you probably won't be disapointed. Otherwise, it's been done before. By Roman Polanski over 20 years ago...
People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
This video features guns created by a new book called Badass Lego Guns. The book is a guide to how to build guns made of LEGOs that actually fire LEGO bullets.
Just remember, no matter how bad you think you are at computers, you're one step ahead of this little tabby.
With the low budget of $300 bucks, Michael Ashton and pals created the below 12-minute short film entitled Lazy Teenage Superheroes, complete with some pretty great looking SFX. Just shows what you can do with a little ingenuity plus some self-taught filmmaking know-how (and the right After Effects tutorials). Not bad at all. Behind-the-scenes:
Here is the movie trailer for the feature film "The Tourist." Is it just me or does Johnny Depp look horrible in this film? He looks so puffy face like he is on steroids or something. Did he gain weight to intentionally look bad or have we seen him so much in costumes that we just don't recognize the TRUE JD. Here are 5 clips from the movie "The Tourist" featuring Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie.
Known for their amazing HD conversions and in depth behind the scenes, Criterion sets the standard for quality home video releases. They are very particular about the films they choose to give the "Criterion" treatment which makes this concept so hysterical. Imagine if Criterion actually released really bad movies... Here is the collection of those titles.
Matt and Matt from rowthree.com's MAMO podcast have invaded thesubstream.com studio! And all because Mike said some bad things about the Harry Potter movies...
John Carpenter's THE WARD screened at last night's Midnight Madness event and it wasn't too bad! We talked with some fans and discussed the fine art of the jump-scare..
The Expendables was truly, truly horrific, which is too bad because we are huge fans of 80s action heroes. And Drakkar Noir.
Passng Technique: The instep pass is the most common way and the most efficient to pass a ball in soccer. It requires the use of your inside foot. Passing a ball is similar to shooting. It requires you to have your plant foot a foot away from the ball. Bend your standing leg, and follow through the ball with the inside of your foot making sure you lean forward and with a locked ankle. In this article I will guide you to help improve your passing by talking about the different things you need ...
My favorite kind of violence: flower bullets and drops of petal blood. The bad guys encroach on the scene in a hippie VW bus, and flower bedlam ensues...
Something so basic, yet so mysterious... Gravity seemingly a law that we must live by... or is it? Check out this fascinating article from the New York Times, examining one scientist's bid to redefine what we think about as gravity.
Mike from thesubstream lets you know what to watch instead of the alarmingly bad Grown Ups.
Very important UK esquire cover shoot done with the Red One with a MX Sensor. Yeah, and the dancing aint bad either.
Make sure to click through for some bad-ass Flash-based World Cup explorer. I'm not sure whether something like this was available for the last world cup, all I know is that I'll be using that site quite a bit.
