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How To: Draw an emo chibi character

Sasukeisahotie shows you how to draw an Emo Chibi. Start by drawing a prominently spiky, asymmetrical, "emo" haircut, wider than tall. Then draw a line making the outline of the face from the right bottom of the haircut, to the left clump of hair, again this should be wide. Draw one eye on the face (where the other eye is, it should be hidden underneath hair). Draw in the shirt/jacket/top half of the character underneath the head, but make this smaller than the head. Decorate the shirt with s...

How To: Find the area of a circle when you know the diameter

In this video, it is shown how to calculate the area of a circle where the diameter is given. The formula for calculating the area of a circle is pi multiplied by square of radius. Radius is actually half of the diameter. In this video, the diameter is given as 10.6 meters. Hence, the radius will be half of 10.6 which is equal to 5.3 meters. Now, to find the area we shall multiply pi with the square of 5.3. Square of 5.3 is 28.09. If we multiply 28.09 with pi we shall get the area of the circ...

How To: Make an easy paper flower

In this video you learn how to make paper flowers with paper, craft glue, crayons, and scissors. First you cut paper into strips and then fold them in half long ways before cutting them into petal shapes. You then color the tips of the petals with the crayons. Next you fold the petals in half again and cut small lines along the unfolded side to make the appearance of more natural petals. Then you layer the petals together with craft glue in a flower shape. When desired shape is reached you th...

How To: Fold an origami paper flag

The man describes and demonstrates how to create a paper flag using basic paper folding methods. You need an oblong piece of paper. Then fold the paper in half the long way and crease it down the middle. Then fold it the same way in half again and recrease then open the paper back up one time. Fold a corner into the middle and then crease it on both sides and unfold it. The you need to open up a flap and let it fold into a point and crease it. At the end of the tutorial you need to open it up...

How To: Cross stitch leather

John Hunt demonstrates how to do Cross Stitch that is used on steering wheel covers in this video. He takes a piece of dowel and wraps it with pre-glued leather. Next he threads two needles with cotton thread that has been pulled through bees wax so they stay in the leather better. Next he begins to sew. You have to sew the first half of the cross stitch with one needle and thread, and the other half with the other needle and thread. Sew till you get to the end pull both needles off the threa...

How To: Make a paper box for fun

This is a video clip about "how to make a paper box". To make the paper box get a hard sheet paper and follow the instructions. Fold the paper into a half and unfold it and fold the other ending of the paper into half. Then, fold the one corner side of the paper and make a triangle to fit the center as the right triangle and do the same procedure for the other corner side of the paper. After that, fold the bottom side of the paper upwards and repeat the same process for the rest of three corn...

How To: Make delicious spicy butternut squash soup

Peel the squash and cut it in half lengthwise. Remove the seeds for roasting. Now cut the squash into half-inch cubes. peel and chop the carrots into pieces as same as size of squash. Heat the onion and garlic over a medium heat for up to 7 minutes. Add the squash and carrots to the onion and garlic mixture in a large saucepan. Cook it for ten minutes to soften the vegetables. Add salt, ground pepper, thyme, chili peppers and the remaining ingredients and boil for 30 minutes. Add cheese and s...

How To: Turn your fresh tomatoes into crushed

Ian Knauer, food editor from Gourmet Magazine, is going to show you how to turn fresh tomatoes into crushed tomatoes in no time. First, you must take a fresh tomato and just slice it in half, now grab a 4 sided grater and start grating the tomato using the large holes. You should do this over a bowl because that's where all your crushed tomato is going to end up. You must grate the tomato (the skin should begin to peel) until your left with just the peel of the tomato left in your hand, which...

How To: Levitate a card easily

MYQUICKTRICKS Shuffle the cards and ask the audience to pick a card. Once they pick a card cut the deck and have them place their card in on the top of the bottom stack. Place the top half on top of the bottom half but stick your pinky in the back so to hold the place of the card they picked. Cut the deck so their card is now on the top and begin to shuffle making sure their card stays at the top of the deck. Cut the deck with one hand and place the rubber band on the card they picked. Squeez...

How To: Make delicious salsa for tacos, chips, and more

Steve demonstrates how to make salsa for tacos, chips and dips. The salsa uses cilantro, 8 to 12 tomatoes, one lime, a couple of cloves of garlic, a couple of jalapeno peppers, a whole medium onion and salt. Set aside several tomatoes. Quarter the rest of the tomatoes, de-vein the jalapenos, dice half of the onion, chop the garlic and put them into the blender. Squeeze lime juice into the blender. Blend the mixture. Add a handful cilantro at the end of the blending cycle. Dump the salsa mixtu...

How To: Shrink a cereal box before you throw it away

The top flaps on the cereal box should already be open. Then you must open the flaps on the bottom of the cereal box (the side parallel to the opening) and flatten it. Now use the creases made by the corners of the box and fold them inward; it should be flat again. Fold it length wise thus leaving a little rectangle of the flattened box that is not overlapped by the other half of the flattened box. Tax this tab and insert it into the opening in the adjacent half of the cereal box. Your cereal...

How To: Cook collard greens quickly

In this video, Kemp Minifie, Executive Food Editor from Gourmet Magazine, explains a quick and easy way to cook collard greens. Southern style cooked greens are cooked for a long time. She is demonstrating the Brazilian method of cooking collard greens. She cuts the stem the long way down the middle and removes it. She stacks up the halves of the leaves and rolls them up starting from the short end, then slices them into long thin shreds. They shrink when they're cooked. She heats the pan ove...

How To: Make beef jerky on the grill

Upon collecting some onion powder, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, rack pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and soy sauce; slice the steak into inch and a half thin strips. This recipe calls for 6-7 pounds of beef. put the beef in a bowl to prepare for marinating. Measure about a cup and a half of soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce. Use a tablespoon of onion powder and garlic powder. Then take a tablespoon of ground pepper. If you wish, add about a tablespoon of red pepper flakes. Mix that up and...

How To: Make a bomb/rocket in Garry's Mod for Half-Life

kivan2400 shows us how to make a bomb/rocket in Garry's Mod for Half-Life for the PC. First download Gary's Mod. Once you have downloaded Gary's Mod, begin by placing four barrels in a diamond shape. Alternate four gas canisters between the barrels you placed. Place an exploding barrel in the middle of your diamond. Next put thrusters on the ends of everything you just created, both types of barrels and the gas canisters. Use your duplicator to make as many as you want and launch them.

How To: Prepare squash for cooking

We start out in a large greenhouse, there are two gentlemen discussing pumpkin pies. There is an obvious expert and he states that there are pumpkins especially made for pies, but pumpkins tend to have a lot of water and he has gotten a lot of complaints that peoples pies are to runny. He has an answer with certain squashes that your family will still think it's pumpkin. Sweet meat squash still has the orange color on the inside but it has a much lower water content, cut it in half right arou...

How To: Make a bookstore quality book at home

The first step is to print 4 full sheets of paper, folded in half to make 8 physical sheets of paper, or 16 possible printed pages. In the video, the lady only prints on half the pages, and puts page numbers on the others. She then draws evenly spaced holes on the binding of each signature, and sews each of the signatures together. You then start sewing signatures to each other starting from the front of the book to the back of the book. You sew the binding of each adjacent signature with a p...

How To: Draw a beautiful flower

This is a very quick and easy step by step guide to drawing a flower. First, you want to take a sheet of plain white paper and a writing utensil of your choice and draw a large circle. Second, you want to make large parenthesizes shapes about an inch and a half apart and put four of those on the circle separating each by less than half an inch. Lastly, you want to finish off the petals of the flower by just creating lines outside of the ones you just made and connecting at a tip to create fou...

How To: Build a superfast paper airplane

Follow this video to learn how to make your own paper airplane that can really fly. Acquire a sheet of A4 paper and fold it in half. Afterwards fold two of the edges towards the center line set out when folding. These should be folded in the form of two triangles. After doing so fold them downwards, towards the center line lower down. Fold another two triangles towards the center, one from each side. At this point a small edge will be formed at the tip of the two folds. Simply fold it upwards...

How To: Make an americano cocktail

The Americano is a gentle introduction to the unusual, bitter taste of Campari. Cocktail shaker with top Crushed ice 2 oz. , Campari 2 oz. ,sweet vermouth Soda water, Orange twist, for garnish Lemon twist, for garnish Fill a cocktail shaker half-full with crushed ice. Add the Campari and sweet vermouth to the cocktail shaker. Replace the top on the cocktail shaker and shake gently for 15 to 20 seconds, making sure you do not bruise the alcohol. Transfer the drink to short cocktail glasses hal...

How To: Create a dramatic purple Bollywood eye makeup look

This video demonstrates how to create a dramatic purple Bollywood eye makeup look. She starts by applying white makeup to one half of her eye lid, closet to her nose. She then blends this with purple makeup on the second half of her eye lid. Next the presenter uses a pencil to put down a dark outline around the eye lid, which is then blended upwards by using the index finder. The blending continues up to the bottom of the eye brows. Finally some glitter liner and small jewels are applied to t...

How To: Paint a magnolia in Chinese painting

This video demonstrates how to paint a magnolia in ink and water, Chinese style. Make gray ink by mixing water with the black ink. Squeeze the brush with a piece of tissue and dip it in glue water made of peach sap powder mixed with water. When he begins to paint, half the brushstroke is gray and half is clear water. In this way you can use the brush to get darker and lighter shades of gray to make the magnolia flower shape that appears to be shaded. He then uses a stiff brush and black ink t...

How To: Make a German chocolate cake martini

To make this special cocktail, you will need three essential ingredients: Cherry Vodka, Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, and Godiva Chocolate Liqueur. First, put three scoops of ice in a cocktail shaker, so that it is over half full. Add one to one and one-half ounces each of the Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, and then one ounce of the Godiva Chocolate Liqueur. Close the shaker and shake vigorously. When the metal shaker is frosted and ice cold to the touch, you will know your concoction is ready. Fill a coc...

How To: Lose weight with a healthy after workout meal

Darin Steen of Major League Health explains how to lose weight with a healthy meal after a workout. What you put in your mouth composes 70% to 80% of fitness fat loss gain. Meals that you eat after intense workout sessions are very important. Eat a meal that is predigested and absorbed quickly like whey protein and a banana. Eat your meal 30 minutes to 60 minutes after your workout. For people weighing 120 pounds to 140 pounds, use 15 grams of whey protein and a half of a banana. For people w...

How To: Make a easy paper hat

Take one large newspaper sheet that consists of two pages on each side. Fold in half lengthwise (the way it comes in the newspaper). Fold in half again (bringing the top of the paper to the bottom). Fold corners (on folded side) to middle. This will make a pointed top to paper. Fold one piece of bottom of paper up to the bottom of the pointed fold. Fold bottom again until it overlaps a little of the pointed part. Turn hat over. Fold sides in about 1 1/2 to 2 inches (it will look like a house)...

How To: Make a paper ball

Place the paper colored-side down on the table. Fold the piece of paper in half to form a triangle. Match the upper right corner to the bottom left corner. Run your fingers along the edge of the triangle to complete the fold. Shrink the triangles size again and fold it in half once more. Match corner to corner. This fold forms a smaller triangle. Ensure the corners match up evenly. Run your fingers along the edge of the smaller triangle to complete the fold. Open up half of the triangle. Pres...

How To: Make a cool paper fortune teller

Gamer Dude 5000 Arts and Crafts Demonstrator offers a short tutorial with a single sheet of 8 1/2" X 11" paper and pair of scissors. First you fold the corner of your paper out till the top half of your paper and the side of your paper is flush. You cut off excess paper with a pair of scissors. When you open the paper back up, you will have a square sheet of paper that you can fold. You fold all the corners of your square in to the center. Then you flip it over to the back and repeat. Once do...

How To: Tie a right half knot spiral for hemp jewelry

This video is an instructional video on creating and using the right half knot spiral knot tying technique for creating hemp jewelry. The technique creates items like anklets, bracelets, chokers, and necklaces. Also, creator of the video demonstrates every step and procedure for creating the knot spiral. First, tie an overhand knot by crossing the right side of the cord over the left side of the cord. Second, bring the left cording under the right cording to create the second phase of the kno...

How To: Crochet the start of a continual round

This video shows how to start a continual round in single crochet, half-double crochet and double crochet. The photography on this video allows you to see the motion of the crochet hook and the thread and really see observe the techniques as they are explained. Techniques are explained for starting and ending the continual round. This continual round technique including transitions between single, half-double, and double crochet allows you to crochet projects like skullcaps and hats using one...

How To: Hone a knife from a pro

Taylor Erkkinen, co-owner of the Brooklyn Kitchen, shows how to properly hone a knife Hold a butcher steel vertically. Place it on a towel on a flat surface in order to anchor and hold it in place. Most knifes are sharpened to 20 degrees. To find this angle, hold the knife perpendicularly to the butcher steel--this is 90 degrees. Reducing to half that angle is 45 degrees, and half of that angle is 22 degrees. Pass the knife equally on each side of the butcher steel, making sure you run all th...

How To: Half-double crochet

Learn how to make the half-double crochet stitch in this tutorial about the basics of crocheting. You will need: crochet hook, yarn. Procedure: Make two chains. Turn your work, then go back across. Chain 2 is counted as a stitch so skip the first stitch, yarn over and insert your hook the next stitch. Draw up a loop, yarn over and draw through all three loops on the hook. Repeat the steps and do that all the way across. Follow these steps and you will be another step closer to your goal of ma...

How To: Make mini pumpkin pies

In this video Jordan Reimer and Twisted Publications show the viewer how to make mini pumpkin pies. For the pastry base you will need a mini muffin pan, cutters and puff pastry, and for the filling you will need a can of pumpkin, half and half milk, eggs, vanilla, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, brown sugar, which is whisked together and ladled into the pastry base. Bake for 20 minutes at 370-375 degrees.

How To: Multiply mixed numbers

A guy from the website Math Problem Generator explains, in this video, how to easily multiply mixed fraction numbers. First, he demonstrates that you need to convert both of the numbers to improper fractions. Then he shows that you need to multiply the two resulting numbers together. The resulting fraction is also improper, so it needs to be converted back to a mixed number fraction. In the example that he provides, he shows that one and a half multiplied by one and a third becomes two and a ...

How To: Find the area of rectangles, triangles & rectangles

In this tutorial the author shows how to find the area of Rectangles, Triangles and Parallelograms. He says that an area of a figure is nothing but the amount of space taken up by that figure. He now explains that the area of rectangle is length times the breadth. He demonstrates it with an example. Now he says that an area of a parallelogram is base times height. He also demonstrates how to find the area of a parallelogram. Finally he shows the area of a triangle is half times the product of...

How To: Play "Truth" by Seether on acoustic guitar

This how to video describes how to play "Truth" by Seether on the guitar. The video begins with the author just jumping into the song. You will have to tune your guitar a half step down in order to play the song. She then explains the chord progression, intro, bridge, and the rest of the song. This video is perfect for novice guitar players or anyone who is a major Seether fan. The video lasts about 9 and a half minutes.

How To: Tie your scarf using different methods

Today we're learning how to tie on a scarf. First start with a large, square, light fabric scarf. Fold it in half diagonally to form a triangle. Simply tie it in a half knot around your neck and pull the ends in front. You can also use a square scarf as if it were a longer scarf. Several variations will get you different looks. You can also use the scarf as a head wrap, Grace Kelley style. You can make a shirt out of your large square scarf, we see several ways to do it. You can use long, thi...

How To: Make zucchini fritters

This is a very interesting instructional video on how to make a popular Korean food called Zucchini Fritters. The main ingredients required are 1 cup flour, 1 cup water, 1 egg, 1 zucchini, half an onion, 1 red hot pepper and half a teaspoon salt. Cut the zucchini into small pieces and chop the onion very finely. Slice red pepper. Now combine flour with salt, water and egg and mix them well. Add vegetables into the batter. Take a slightly oiled pan. Pour one spoon of batter and spread it to ma...

How To: Plant lingonberry in a container garden

Lingonberries are really popular in Sweden. One fact about Lingonberries that people don't know is that they are high in vitamin C. Lingonberry plants produce berries once in the summer and once in the fall, so you get two harvests from this crop which is a really nice. The Lingonberry bushes grow to be one and a half feet wide and one and a half feet tall. So they don't get too large. Take the plants out of the containers very gently. Place the plant in a pot and add some potting soil to fil...