Learn how to draw and paint snowy, rocky mountains for manga, anime, comics and illustration in Photoshop. This step by step video shows you how to do so by laying down the base color, blocking in shape for painting, assigning value and color composition, and refining detail for the final concept painting.
Watch to learn how to play "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" on banjo, which features a right hand pattern that is used in many other banjo songs.
The cog sets are the iconic pieces of the bike on the wheels with all their delicate layers of gears. This video features detailed instructions from a professional bike mechanic on how to install or remove a cog set on a mountain bike. This is useful if you want to clean your cog set or have purchased a new one that you would like to install.
Hayes sole brakes are a very popular type of bike brake. Then, you probably already know that if you are watching this video. It features a professional mountain bike mechanic explaining how to quickly and easily replace the pads on your beloved Hayes brakes, ensuring a lack of fade while braking and making sure that your bike will stop when it has to every time.
Installing and maintaining properly functioning brakes is one of the most important mechanical parts of keeping your bike working safely. This video features a professional bike mechanic setting up an international standard, or IS, brake caliper on a mountain bike.
Removing the spider from your mountain bike crank is an important part of the cleaning process, allowing you to get at areas on the crank that you never would be able to otherwise. This video features a demonstration of how to do this for XT or XTR chainring spiders. For those who refuse to compromise while cleaning their own bike, this video is a must.
Bicycle equipment company Shimano is the father of the free hub. This video features a professional mountain bike mechanic walking you through the process for overhauling a Shimano free hub, ensuring that your wheels spin as freely as possible and that your rides will be as easy and fun as the terrain and your effort level will allow.
The wheel hub is the center of great wheel performance for your mountain bike. This video features a professional bicycle mechanic explaining the process for overhauling a Mavic wheel hub, installing a new bearing and cleaning all of the parts, ensuring clean spinning for your wheels and a smooth ride.
THere are many parts of the rear derailleur on a mountain or road bike that need frequent adjustment to function properly and give you proper performance on your rides. This video will teach you how to adjust the cable tension, the jockey wheel, and the hanger of the derailleur, ensuring that the whole system is functioning smoothly and that your bike will work as well as possible.
Does the chain on your bike skip? One common reason for this to happen is stiff link chains. This video features a professional mountain bike mechanic demonstrating how to illuminate, or make loose, stiff link chains if you get caught with them out on the trail. If you don't do this, and your chain skips enough, it's going to come off and you are going to stack, so make sure your bike is maintained properly!
If you are unlucky enough to have a bike whose setup does not features a self-extracting crank, then this video is for you! It shoes you how to remove a non-self extracting crank properly as part of you normal bike maintenance. Never envy the self extracting crank kids again after you learn how to take off you non-self extracting crank yourself easily.
This video tech tip shows you how to adjust the rear derailleur in order to achieve proper shifting for your bike.
If you love catching big air in the snow without the need of actual snow, then you should grab the game Stoked. This snowboarding game takes you to some of the most gnarliest and awesome mountains you've ever seen in a sports game. This tutorial will shows you how to get to The Cascades achievement location in order to sing the guestbook. It's easy to do and fun to go after. So good luck and enjoy!
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a Valerian root tincture. This recipe is made with Valerian root (Valeriana officinalis) and is a great calming remedy for insomnia. This tincture will also work well for treating anxiety.
Dangerous to humans and dogs, Rocky Mountain Fever, along with several other tickborne infections, is on the rise.
Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8) is out today, available in the Mac App Store for just $20. Unfortunately, installing Mountain Lion requires that you already have a Mac running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or Lion (OS X 10.7). If you're currently running a Leopard system, you're out of luck, and need to pay $29 to upgrade to Snow Leopard, and then an additional $20 to upgrade again to Mountain Lion. That sounds like way to much trouble to me. But why exactly is Leopard incompatible? Turns out it's not—m...
Cannondale's Doug Dalton offers up a quick tip to help make your mountain bike ride safer and easier.
Doug Dalton from Cannondale offers some tips on staying upright while riding the trails.
Have you ever found yourself lost in the Appalachian Mountains, or stranded in the Mojave Desert? Maybe it was because you couldn't read a map… a real map… a real hands-on, folding paper map. Reading a map is an important skill that may be lost in the internet and GPS era, but it' s a skill that everyone should have.
In this series of extreme sports videos, our expert mountain biker will explain and demonstrate braking techniques for downhill mountain biking. He will show you the proper body position and braking techniques for slowing down or stopping when you need to.
In this series of extreme sports videos, our expert mountain biker will explain and demonstrate cornering techniques for downhill mountain biking. He will show you the proper body position and braking techniques for cruising down that hillside without having to interrupt your ride. Mickey Denoncourt shows you how to hit various types of corners, from flat and bermed corners to camber corners.
Learn about mountain bike suspension systems and how to maintain your bike. Mickey Denoncourt takes you through all the parts and repair.
Mickey Denoncourt shows us different systems for mountain bikes and cycling maintenance. Part 1 of 31 - How to Maintain different systems for mountain bikes.
Our mountain biking expert discusses the correct way to get over, around and through any obstacles you may encounter on your adventures. He also demonstrates proper weight distribution and riding techniques, and discusses modulation and braking theory. If these topics sound sophisticated, that's because they are, a veritable master's class in mountain biking physics. So get your degree today!
Tres Semillas Mountain Inn is a family owned organic farm and rainforest retreat located in El Brujo de Rio Nuevo, Costa Rica, on the southern border of the Los Santos National Park. Learn the simple procedure for how to milk cows and care for them on an organic farm by watching this video tutorial.
This video offers up some tips on how to crash a mountain bike without hurting yourself.
In this video, Michael Novelli explains what materials you need and the procedures you should follow to pack a mountain bike and ship it without damaging it.
In this video series, let Mickey Denoncourt show you how to do some simple bicycle repair jobs. He illustrates how to change, handlebars, tires, pedals, and seats. Mickey also gives you tips on how to pick mountain biking shoes. With his advice, you can make a bike that uniquely fits for you. So, what are you waiting for? Start learning about mountain bikes today!
After pouring out $10 million for 60 seconds of Super Bowl advertising time, Doritos and Mountain Dew continued their Sunday marketing binge on Snapchat.
Animated and easy to follow to show you how to make this eye catching pocket square. Add some splash to your suit with the Ice Cream mountain pockets square.
Have a PC but hate Windows? Maybe you've just heard a ton about the new Mountain Lion OS X and want to see if it lives up to expectations. Either way, you can install Mountain Lion on your Intel-based PC in a few easy steps. All you need is a copy of the OS X and an 8 GB USB flash drive. The first step is getting Mountain Lion onto the flash drive. You'll need to format the drive with one partition as Mac OS Extended, Journaled and select Master Boot Record under options so that it's able to ...
In this downhill racing video series, learn how to prepare for downhill cycling from DH expert Mickey Denoncourt. Mickey will show you how to adjust mountain bikes for downhill racing, how to position handlebars, how to adjust seat height and angle for DH racing, how to adjust the front and rear suspension spring rate for downhill racing, how to adjust the front and rear damper settings on a DH bike, and how to choose protective safety gear for downhill racing.
Near the Black Rock Mountains there's a Black Rock Cave, inventive right? Well, regardless of the uninspired name, laying within said cave is a unique weapon that'll make any robot or member of the Brotherhood of Steel quiver in their boots, or circuits, you get the idea! In this video you'll learn where to get the Paladin Toaster, one of the many unique weapons in Fallout New Vegas!
In this video, we learn how to draw a cartoon cottage scene. Start out by drawing the outline for the house, a tree, the sun, and mountains. After this, add color to the mountains and everything else in the scene. From here, color in the sun and then start to create the cottage. Make sure to add details to it, like a roof and a door and windows. Then, color the ground green to make it look like it's set out in the wilderness. Once finished, add in shading to make it look more realistic and th...
In this video, we learn how to change a mountain bike tire. Start by shifting the rear cassette to the smallest gear. Then, remove quick release and remove the wheel. After this, remove the tire with tire levers or strong fingers, then check inside the tire rim for foreign objects. Inflate the new tube slightly, then put the tire in. Put both of these inside the rim, then inflate the tire to the correct PSI. After this, install the wheel on the bike and then tighten quick release. Do the fina...
First go to the Apennine mountains and ride the horse to where video is showing. you will find a bridge, move the horse as shown. It may take some time but keep trying, you will hit the right space soon. Now try to hop the horse down. After a while, it will hop straight down but if it does not, keep trying at the same spot. Finally you will fall down the bridge and under the map. If you step out the horse, it will let you float away. If you would keep the horse on bridge, it will let you ridi...
In this video, we learn how to slim down with a "mountain climbing" exercise at home. Sit-ups and crunches are not effective for slimming down your abs, doing this exercises will help with a good diet! To do this, you will place your hands on a table and lean slightly into it. Now, bring your knees into your elbows, which will work your abs. Do this for about thirty seconds, then do this same exercise, except while leaning on a chair that is lower down to the ground. Change it up by crossing ...
Drawing fantasy worlds is a very enjoyable activity for many artists because of the freedom that comes with not having to draw naturally occurring things while still remaining within the confines of realistic depiction. This three-part video demonstrates the drawing of a fantasy scene featuring a castle on a lonely hilltop with some very ominous Misty-Mountains-like mountains in the background. It is rendered entirely in pencil, but still conveys the sense of loneliness that most castles of t...
In this video, Chopping It Up, we see how some men camping and scouting in the remote central Brazilian jungle hack their way through the thick brush with machetes. We watch as they clear a path to the top of a mountain. It's a lot of work! We're told how they identified a route where the need for hacking would be minimized, on an old trail. The problem, however, is the sunlight on an old trail causes it to get choked up with vines and other thick growth. To clear the path with the machetes, ...
Mastering Adobe Photoshop is quiet challenging and artists can find the transition from brush and canvas frustrating. Learning how to transition your artistic skills to the electronic arena can really offer a vast array of opportunities. Follow our artist as he takes us through the steps of creating a mountain landscape using the common tools in Photoshop. You will be amazed as our expert Photoshop artist creates an attractive mountain landscape in less than ten minutes, taking the viewer thr...
