This video shows roller furling of a jib in 5 knots of wind. Mild tensing is kept on the jib's sheet to enable the jib to warp tightly around the headstay. In high wind conditions, this is best done in a deep running reach. The mainsail will tend to shield the jib from the wind. This will prevent excess luffing of the sail and make furling easier. In a pinch, you can always let the jib out, by loosening it's sheet and roll in the jib, but in high winds excess luffing may occur and this can da...
Installing Roller Shades is a Breeze! Installing Roller Shades
Remember the old Roller Racer? Well, bring it back Jackass style. Find a long, straight, steep outdoors stair case that has a lot of flat space at the bottom. A very long wood board will have to be measured by a wood wholesaler to fit the stair case from top to bottom.The rider will be wrapped in bubble wrap (or an oversized animal costume) and ride the Roller Racer down the staircase board to the bottom at frightening speeds and likely wipeout at the bottom. The bubble wrap (or animal costum...
When John Ivers grew tired of the long lines at amusement parks, he decided to build his very own roller coaster - in his backyard. Called the Blue Flash, the roller coaster is said to have the same safety standards as official park coasters, and even has a 360 degree loop.
Roller Coast ThrillI Have an great idea.....I Think You Should Stick Your Body on the outside front of an roller coaster.
This video will help you look great with some beachy waves made by hot rollers. Get beachy waves in your hair with hot rollers.
In this tutorial, we learn how to make pipe cleaner rollers. First, secure 3 pipe cleaners together, then braid or twist them together. This is all you have to do to make the basic cleaner! Use wire cleaners to cut different sizes depending on what you need them for. Make sure you secure the ends with duct tape so you don't poke yourself with the sharp wire ends of the pipe cleaners. Simply roll the tape around the pipe cleaner and secure it so the tape doesn't fall out. You can store these i...
In this video, you will learn how to glide on one foot with roller blades. All you need is a pair of roller blades and the proper safety equipment. This will involve you putting weight on the one foot that stays on the ground. You will have to pick up your other foot behind you. Practice this while moving. Remember to pick up some speed and push off before you lift off your foot. Keep on doing this until you get the hang of it. Viewing this video will show you just how easy it is to glide on ...
Raelle Cook provides skaters with the basics of turning while on roller skates. The first thing skaters need to know is they have to be skating at a comfortable speed and a comfortable position. The most comfortable position would be not to have your knees locked. The biggest mistake is attempting to turn while going to fast. To slow down you simply drag your toe stop. Turn your body in the direction you'd like to turn and look in the direction of the turn. Don't look in the opposite directio...
Jeremy Reid has created what quite possibly may be every child, teenager and adult's dream: the backyard roller coaster. This thing sure beats my childhood swing set.
MIT students get to have all the fun... Mike Nawrot and Romain Teil constructed their fully-functional, homemade wooden roller coaster in just two weeks, aptly named the Reverse Cowgirl. We've seen lots of thrill-seeking backyard contraptions, but this one imprisons the rider in a freaky vertical position:
Other than the expected task of removing lint from clothing, lint rollers are a great tool to have around the house for a wide variety of cleaning and non-cleaning uses.
Just like magic - incredible new project from Sweatshoppe in which video is "painted" onto a wall. Video demonstration below, (don't miss it! absolutely visually amazing).
The Redneck Roller Coaster is the invention of Dave Rock, a Canadian garbage picker and nudist. He has also fathered many children, two of whom he 'made for lezbians'.
Skating backwards can be challenging but an instructor from Expert Village shows us two easy ways to learn. Several important things to keep in mind before you begin is to not be afraid of falling, make sure your body is relaxed, and your knees should not be locked. Now, from a standing position and weight equally distributed on both legs, slowly push your legs out to the side then back again in a sort of figure eight and then repeat. This will slowly propel you backwards. Another way to skat...
This video teaches you how to change the wheels on your roller skates. You will need the replacement set of wheels with the bearings already in them and a skate tool. Remove the wheel by using the skate tool. Remember, righty tighty - lefty loosey. Take off the wheel and pop the new one back on. The key is to put the flat end of the nut on first. Hand tighten the nut and then use the skate tool to tighten it the rest of the way. Tighten it until it stops and then check your wheel. If the whee...
Everybody loves a good fair ground ride and so why not give them something to panic about more than a few bloody pranks?
An emotional vampire is somebody who sucks the positive energy out of your life, in turn leaving you feeling drained afterwards. They can come in the form of a family member, friend, coworker, or neighbor. Unlike real vampires who are out of sight during the daytime, emotional vampires can come into your life at any hour of the day to ruin your mood and undermine the parts of your life that make you you.
Lots of people attempt coasters in this way. But this is the first one I have ever found that seems to really work and is truly COASTER LIKE.
According to Google's (albeit rough) translation from French to English: "A big wheel in India that does not work with an engine but using human power. Men throw themselves in front of the wheel to rotate due to their weight."
Dirk Auer has set a new world record…for insanity. This past July, the adrenaline junkie raced down the rickety, wooden Mammoth roller coaster at 56mph, in his specially made inline skates. Auer made it through the entire length of the roller coaster (2820 feet) in just over a minute.
Genius or retard? Such an impossibly fine, fine line. Imagine if MacGyver got hit by a hillbilly stupid stick. Extremely amusing. And yes, washing machine parts are integral to this design!$%^&.
Overhead camera boom made with PVC pipe, from Dino at Hack a Week:
Middle-aged man shows how to paint your home walls properly. Subtitles and numbered steps such as measuring the dimensions of the room, masking the room, using primer, and using the roller properly make this video extremely useful. Paint a wall properly.
Well, maybe these folks aren't redneck. That is a pretty nice house, and that slingshot doesn't look too jery rigged. But the idea of a human slingshot is certainly redneck (and lotsa fun). Previously, Build a Redneck Roller Coaster.
Every explosive loving, thrill seeking, roller coaster junkie's childhood dream: the jet powered merry-go-round. This steam punk inspired machine is brought to you by Brooklyn-based arts collective The Madagascar Institute. More images below the video.
The art of persuasion (or subtle emotional manipulation, depending on how you're looking at it) does not necessarily have to be an evil thing.
Not in the mood for a sappy ending? Well, strap in because "Emotional Response Cinema Technology" lets your own body physiology control the movie music, the special effects, and even the movie ending. A collaboration between BioControl Systems, Filmtrip, and the Sonic Arts Research Center at Queen's University Belfast, the technology was recently showcased at the SXSW film festival in Austin, TX, where the newly minted horror film Unsound interacted with the audience through wires connected t...
Minecart rides primarily serve two different functions—transportation or entertainment. We rarely see minecart-based transportation systems in Minecraft these days because most servers support warps or allow users to set multiple homes that they can simply teleport to. That leaves the primary purpose of entertainment.
Child Safety Window Treatments
From an episode of the Frank Sinatra Show in 1951, Larry Griswold performs death defying stunts in the name of entertainment. Griswold, an American gymnast, entertainer, and co-inventor of the trampoline, proved again and again that flirting with death is sure to please a crowd. Meanwhile, in the parallel universe of Julie Taymor's accident prone Spider-Man musical, the New Yorker makes a similar case in point. The production has been plagued with injury after injury- broken wrists and ribs, ...
Have all of the jackasses and me do the "milk challenge" (where you drink a gallon of milk it makes you puke every time) before going on a roller coaster. while going down the big hill we all gag ourselves and puke. since were going down the hill all the puke will fly backwards and hit everyone behind us. All the jackasses will be bathed in puke and the passengers will get hit too. Getting puke on them will make them puke too. It will be a beautiful vicious circle of puking!
In this video, a skater demonstrates and explains how to make a cross over turn on roller blades.The cross over is similar to a turn, but it is done much faster and it increases your speed while turning because you can push off. The skater demonstrates the turn around a cone. He skates normally towards it on the right side. When he has reached the cone, he lifts his right foot and crosses it over the left foot in front while starting to turn. He then lifts his left foot and positions it norma...
This video demonstrates how to paint walls and ceilings. From the people who brought you the Dummies instructional book series, brings you the same non-intimidating guides in video form. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to paint walls and ceilings, For Dummies.
This video will show you how to make emotional icon, emoticons, with Adobe Photoshop and ImageReady. You can use these emoticons with Yahoo instant messenger and aim. Make emoticons with Photoshop and ImageReady.
Beautify your home and windows with these easy to install double roller blinds. This tutorial teaches you how to measure for inside mount double roller blinds. Install double roller blinds is an easy process that you can do yourself with this how to video. Install inside mount double roller blinds.
