Aside from the bizarre fascination with being able to see celebrity homes in Malibu (see the Streisand Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect), the CCRP is a great place to check out local surf spots up and down the Coast:
They've announced plans for next year's Zine Fest! It will be held Labor Day Weekend in Golden Gate Park.
A picture from the old Papercut Zine Library located in Cambridge, MA. They have since moved to Somerville, MA. The Papercut Zine Library carries over 13,000 self-published publications that focus on a variety of subjects. Visit their website to learn more! ... And if you're ever in the Somerville area, be sure to check them out!
CHOW presents a guide that may stir up a little competition for our nation's young Girl Scouts. Prefer homemade to preservatives? Then check out CHOW's spin on three classic Girl Scout cookie recipes below.
Not Couture Carolines Mode
Bocas by Chopper: An Aerial View
Bocas by Chopper: An Aerial View
All for the love of Apple.
I hesitate to even post screengrabs from this piece. The storytelling by this creative team (dir. David Altobelli & DP Larkin Seiple) is so perfect that taking stills out of context doesn't do it justice. At first, I was disappointed that the automatic thumbnail Vimeo chose was so nondescript but ultimately it's for the best. Here's just a tease:
Forgive me, I am posting an ad. But Czech glass musician Petr Spatina is incredible. He achieves amazing range with just crystal glasses, water, and his extremely deft hands. He is really that good, check out these two vids shot on the street, not the best quality but amazing.
Cool Zip Line on the road from Libertad to the city. About 10km up the road on the right had side. You have to check this place out. The family who runs it a super nice and zip lines are great.
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Check out this current RISD student's work. Really great conceptual stuff.
On March 25th, FarmVille debuted the Easter- and Spring-themed decorations, like the Chick-n-Egg, Egg Fence, and Spring Eggs. Check them out for yourselves, before it's too late!
I checked the loquat tree this morning, and half the tree is getting ripe, the other half is still green, and about 5 percent are getting picked off by the birds.
This clever app from Disney let's you transform your Facebook photo into a Tim Burton masterpiece. The Facebook app is free. All you need is a wide grin :)
Box of Shadows is a nice little movie we made on a thrifty budget and shot on the RED camera with Mauro Borelli directing and Domiziano Arcangeli Executive Producing with Ford Austin Co-Executive Producing.
Joshua Glenn posted an article on Brainiac, where he researched anything related to Scrabble in American literature ranging from 1954-2003. Check it out.
Lucky wife receives damn good cake replica of a D700 Nikon camera. The cake was made by Granny Schmidt’s bakery in Emmaus, Pennsylvania. For the inspired: check out Wilton's fondant tutorials.
Check out these test images on the new RED Mysterium-X for David Fincher's new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (looks a lot like "Shutter Island", eh?). Shot at 2000 ISO at T1.3.
Chip Tha Ripper, rapper out of Cleveland, just released his mixtape The Cleveland Show. This track 'Feel Good' is produced by my good friend Nathan McQueen of School of Velocity.
Larry Silverberg and Chau Tran of North Carolina State University tested more than 100,000 3-D simulations of free throws to come up with this HowTo for you. The two engineers have determined the perfect trajectory. Check out their strategy below, via Wired's How-To Wiki.
Another amazing LEGO feat (+more Avatar mania). Check out this elaborately constructed helicopter, with blades powered by an actual LEGO motor! Scroll down to see it in action. Previously, Man Spends 2 Years & 30,000 LEGOs Building Star Wars Ship.
Wowee, origami artist Mui-Ling Teh has the skills of a DaVinci Robot. To view more of her work, check out her artist profile on Red Bubble. Inspired? Scroll all the way down for a demonstration on the folding of a teeny, tiny origami crane.
WonderHowTo's favorite Michelle Phan has posted another Lady Gaga makeup tutorial (see Poker Face). This time Michelle artfully demonstrates how to achieve the anime eye makeup look Lady Gaga donned in Bad Romance.
Remember the room with a rotating view? Dutch artist Zeger Reyers brings us an equally interesting installation, created for the exhibition Eating the Universe at the Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. The kitchen has been rotating since November 27th, 2009, and will continue to do so until February 28th, 2010.
Incredible dance production, Thousand-Hand Guan Yin, performed by China's Disabled People's Performance Art Troupe. All of the performers are deaf, which makes the choreography quite an amazing accomplishment.
Tim Higgins brings Halo's warthog vehicles to reality with a live action game created with laser tag weaponry, game controllers, and kid-sized jeeps.
Jim Moyer builds tiny engines, with as much attention to detail and craftsmanship as some of our other favorite hobbyists (check out obsessive model airplanes and teeny tiny weapons). The engine demonstrated in the first video below is supposedly the smallest V-8 engine in the world, a 1/6 scale model of the 327 cubic inch motor in a 1964 Chevrolet Corvette. More images and info at Jim's site. Previously, Obsessively Authentic LEGO V-8.
This video palmistry lesson offers a basic introduction to the main lines used for a reading: the heart, head and life. The demonstrator covers what information can be interpreted from those lines, and how a palmist interprets that information. Check out this how to video and learn some basics for your own palm reading practice. Read the heart, head, and life line for palmistry.
Need to open up and stretch those tight hips and hamstrings? As you know yoga poses require a great deal of flexibility and strength. Check out this yoga how-to video tutorial to learn a quick hip and hamstring sequence that will help stretch and open up your lower body . Open tight hips with a hip and hamstring yoga sequence.
Check out this instructional guitar video and master guitar picking and strum patterns. Learn a few basic techniques as the instructor silently guides you along the learning process of guitar picking. This video is great for electric guitar enthusiasts. Watch this video to improve your guitar playing skills. Master guitar picking and strum patterns.
Check out this instructional guitar video and learn how to play single, two- and three-string melodies on the electric guitar. Learn a few fretting tips on the guitar with this tutorial video. Watch as the instructor guides you along and helps improve your guitar playing skills. Play single, two- and three-string melodies.
Check out this instructional guitar video and learn how to play power chords in E and A and basic riffs on the electric guitar. Follow along with this video and practice the sixth string riff, fifth and sixth string riff, third fourth fifth and sixth string riff. Watch this video to improve your electric guitar skills. Play power chords and basic riffs on the guitar.
Check out this instructional guitar video and familiarize yourself with 18 guitar chords. Included in this tutorial are also 18 exercises to help you play the chords and apply the strumming techniques that you've learned. Watch this video to improve your guitar playing skills. Familiarize yourself with 18 guitar chords.
Are you too lazy to make a mural or mosaic your bathroom wall? Why not be like a normal person and use tile? Check out this how-to video for assimilating into normal culture. Don't be transgressive! Tile a bathroom wall.
Check out this video to learn how to minister to the homeless. First, you have to have a relationship with the lord. Minister to the homeless.
Check out this how to video to learn how to do gas chromatography headspace injections. This is for you molecular biologists out there. Do a headspace injection into a GC.
Check out this simple discussion on how to make full moon water and full moon oil including various uses thereof. You make them during the full moon. Make full moon water and oil.
Check out this video on how to make an elixir using stones and metals. You will need a stone of your choice, a clean glass jar, and some water.