How To: Quickly make a basic wig
Wigs are handy for men with receding hairlines and for catfights to distract your opponent as she pulls your hair off in shock and you deliver the final blow.
Wigs are handy for men with receding hairlines and for catfights to distract your opponent as she pulls your hair off in shock and you deliver the final blow.
Slap tags, or sticker tags, are faster, and less risky, than freestyle graffiti or stencil tags. You can design your slap tag, and put them up inconspicuously wherever you go. This how-to video shows an easy method for designing your slap tag, and even offers a tip on getting stickers on the cheap.
Make your own lava lamp using common household materials. You will need: 1 liter plastic bottle
Tuna can be tiresome, and ramen noodles can get boring. But combine them like this, and you've got a cheap and tasty meal. Learn how to dress up ramen noodles with a tuna casserole. You will need:
In this video tutorial, go into the world of Harry Potter and learn how to make your own Harry Potter magic wand. For this magic wand project, you'll need an LED, copper wire, colored markers, plaster, and a straw. Sure, it's not the best magic wand ever, but it's nice and cheap and easy to make... a good project for the kids.
In this video tutorial, Wess does some research and builds a steady-cam for under fourteen bucks. Hooray for no more motion sickness!
A thrift store picture frame is the basis for this easy tabletop DIY Zen garden. This little Zen garden is a great way to decorate a bathroom or living room. Learn how to make a cheap and easy Zen garden watch this video home decorating tutorial.
This tutorial cinematography video will show you how to make a pan tilt unit for your camera using two $9 cordless screwdrivers from Walmart. This is a great camera solution for anyone looking to do things on the cheap.
Champagne bottles, especially cheap champagne, can be complicated to open without making a mess. Learn how to open a bottle of champagne properly and how to mix a tasty cocktail drink with the champagne.
Do you need an awesome costume for Comicon, or do you just need a giant prop revolver? Either way you can't miss with this episode. Erik shows you how to make your very own "Good Samaritan" revolver from Hellboy! This video will give you tips and tricks for making a great looking Good Samaritan for cheap.
See how easy it is to make your very own Naruto shoes for cosplay! They're cheap, easy to make, and fun! Anime and manga, all the way!
Here's a housekeeping trick that everyone will love. Its easy, cheap, and eco-friendly way of cleaning a microwave or any other household appliance. Watch this how to video and learn how to clean a microwave with vinegar.
Pimp out your favorite pair of slippers to be as useful in the night as they are in the day. This is a fun and cheap little project for making headlight slippers, that way you don't trip and fall down the stairs at night, or stub your toe.
Learn how to make this very small alcohol burning stove with cheap and easy to find items.
Embellishments for scrap booking and card making can be very expensive and you get 24 in a package. You can get very cheap plastic flowers in the Dollar Store and if you don't like the color, you can always painted them!
Here is a great chest superset you can do at home with a cheap dumbbell set. Big gyms are nice but when you can get a killer workout at home without the overhead of getting to and from the gym. In this chest superset I am going to do incline press followed immediately by an incline fly variant. Make sure and use a really light weight on the flys so you can maintain good form.
Pin cushion and barrel distortions? It may sound funny but many cheap cameras take pictures with these distortions - basically concave and convex stretching. This tutorial shows you how to fix both of these problems using Photoshop and right your camera's wrongs.
For those who want to make zero budget films with special effects, there's only one way to go these days... with a computer. They may look like crap, but they're cheap!
Ben Slotover and Paul Elliott AKA Blunt Productions show how to make your own squib for semi-realistic but very cheap gunshot wound effects on your actors.
Is it Saturday night, past 2am, and all you have left is some cheap vodka and milk left in the fridge? Have no fear, you can diversify your alcohol options easily! Learn how to make a Kahlua style coffee liqueur at home.
How to make simple doll tables using cardboard and craft sticks. Easy and cheap to make.
In this new episode of Student Mealz we're making another cheap, easy and delicious meal! We're giving you a recipe on how to make marinated chicken!! A true classic that you can spice up with any herbs and spiced you like!! Go for it hungry hippos!!
Here's your chance to get creative during the holidays, especially if you're a "DIY" person. Why buy a small Christmas Tree for your desk when you can make your own for a fraction of the price and have fun as well. For further instructions refer to the video tutorial. Merry Christmas!!!
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Want to make your paintball wars a whole lot better? Then build this DIY Tripwire Alarm from Kipkay using a mousetrap and some caps from a toy cap gun. This won't harm anyone, and is a cool way to scare the heck out of your friends.
There's a pretty awesome easter egg hidden in Battlefield 3 involving sandcastles. This Achievement Hunter guide will show you exactly where to find the easter egg, and give you a little bit of context on what it is if you haven't played previous Battlefield games.
This guide is a little humerous, but it details the way in which you can hide your chests in Minecraft so that you can stop people from stealing your items in the game. The trick involves a pretty crafty way to build your house.
This Achievement Hunter video shows what steps need to be taken to see a few dogs doing something quite unusual (or maybe all too usual?) in the 'Old World Blues' DLC for Fallout New Vegas. Protip: It involves a certain 'wild' perk.
This is a quick little tutorial that will show you how to use these three versatile tools in Adobe Illustrator. They all involve getting rid of some part of the image you're working with, but each one goes about it in a different way. To get the most out of your Illustrator project, you'll need to be aware of the differences between these tools so you make sure that you always use the right one for the job at hand.
Export your video to share on Vimeo with iMovie. This video shows the different steps involved in exporting video, including setting the video width & height, bit rate, frame rate, audio settings, and saving to a file ready for upload.
Trim and cut video footage with iMovie. This video tutorial provides an overview of the steps involved, including selecting video resources to be used in the project, placing video resources in the timeline, highlighting the actual clips to be used from the resources, and rearranging the chronological order of the clips in the timeline.
Export your video to share on Vimeo with Windows Live Movie Maker. This video shows the different steps involved in exporting video, including setting the video width & height, bit rate, frame rate, audio settings, and saving to a WMV file ready for upload.
The sari is a beautiful dress, traditionally worn by East Indian women, involving a length of fabric draped over an under blouse. This tutorial shows you how to draft your own pattern for a sari blouse and then sew it together yourself. Always iron your fabric before you start working with it!
Learn the fundamentals of position tracking in After Effects in this informative 5 minute tutorial from Patrick Carter. This video lesson involves attaching a text object to a moving cowboy on screen to demonstrate the basic transform tracking function.
Now this is an elaborate MMA move. It's called The Rocker, and involves three distinct parts: a deep half sweep, a pass, and finally side control. This video features UFC competitor and BJJ master Vinny Magalhaes demonstrating how to do the move
One of the most common parts of a ludicrously fast TAS, especially in a Mario game, is clipping through the many block obstacles. This video will teach you an easy way to do that involving isolating the exact frame at which Mario can penetrate a block
If you've been spending any amount of time with PES 2011, you may have found yourself possibly flopping a little on your penalty shots. Unless you're a pro, these are pretty tough, but don't worry! In this video you'll get a full tutorial on everything involving taking penalty shots!
If you have a partner or spouse who loves you then wrangle them in to doing this extremely relaxing stretching massage. As the name implies, this massage involves another person helping to stretch out your muscles so the tension pent up inside disappears as quickly as a Stephanie Meyer vampire.
If you have a still image from Photoshop that you want to use in After Effects, how do you get the file to work properly? This video covers this question, showing you the preparations involved with taking a print design and preparing it for use in Adobe After Effects. Importing as footage and compositions is also covered.