Flash paper is used by magicians however it is very expensive to buy, here's how to make it the easy way! This is a perfect prop DIY for making magical paper that ignites easily. Normally you need sulphiric acid. This uses toilet paper, a crushed emergency flare and a camping stove.
Velvety on the inside, crisp on the outside, great French toast is like the delicious love child of bread and custard. Here's how to make it yourself. (Plus it is cheap and easy to make! Great for college students)
Light up your world with these beautiful and easy-to-make illuminated LED balloons. You will need:
Cooking perfect pasta isn't hard. Then again, cooking mushy or crunchy noodles is dangerously easy. Watch this how-to video from Howcast to learn how to cook pasta al dente.
Learn how to choose ladies underwear. There’s a lot more to picking a pair of panties than thinking they look cute in the store. This video outlines all the different factors in choosing the perfect panties.
Are you not satisfied with haphazardly folded laundry? Learn how to make a handy tool out of cardboard and fold a t-shirt with exactitude. Make sure every t-shirt you fold is perfect.
Secret Ingredient host Scott Herbert prepares cheddar cheese biscuits using a non-food secret ingredient: a cast iron skillet. Learn why cast iron skillets have been an essential kitchen tool for hundreds of years and why they can be a healthy choice for your kitchen too. Follow along and see how easy these cheddar cheese drop biscuits are to make.
Check out this fishing tutorial video that illustrates how to tie a Perfection Loop fishing knot for tying lures to a fishing line. The Perfection loop is a fishing knot that forms a perfect loop at the fishing line. Just follow the simple steps outlined in this instructional fishing video and reel in the big fish!
Mix the Brandy Alexander, the Pink Squirrel or the Grasshopper! Each cocktail uses creme de cacao and whipping cream. The Brandy Alexander cocktail uses a brandy base, the Pink Squirrel uses an almond liqour base, and the Grasshoper uses green creme de menthe base. All are shaken with ice and strained into a martini glass. Perfect after dinner cocktails and very easy to make!
Shaving can be a hassle and it's likely that you probably aren't shaving properly. This tutorial video will teach you how to give yourself the perfect shave.
Learn how to cook the perfect fried rice with this startcooking video. White rice and a few basic ingredients is all you need to make this delicious recipe. Fried rice is easy to make and a great way to use up leftovers. Enjoy!
Love to cool off with juicy watermelon on a hot summer day? Learn what you should look for when choosing a ripe watermelon, and learn how to pick one right off the vine.
Looking for a way to use up your leftover wood? Watch how to make a simple but decorative shelf, perfect for holding pictures or knickknacks.
Animate clips by simply changing an attribute of the clip over time. You can easily animate your clips using the viewer, which allows you to change parameters and motion and updates the clip in the canvas. Animating with Final Cut Express is non-destructive, so you can always undo your work if it is not exactly the animation you want.
Check out this instructional video and learn how to hack a simple flashlight and transform it into a night vision flashlight! The items you'll need for the project cost less than ten dollars and you get a perfect night vision view. Watch this how-to video and learn how to build a night vision flashlight on the cheap.
This chess lesson will show you the king pawn openings, not to mention some general ideas and strategy to make you the perfect chess master. What, you're already a master? So you don't think you need this? Everybody needs it.
The split stitch is another easy hand embroidery stitch, perfect for beginners and used often by advanced embroiderers. Here's a tutorial from Needle 'n Thread that will teach you two methods of using the split stitch.
Sonic fabric is a textile woven from 50% cassette tape and 50% polyester thread. This video illustrates how to build a "reader" that will enable the user to listen to the sound embedded in the fabric. This allows you to play non-traditional music from clothing that's made of cassette tapes.
How to play your Import Gamecube games on a Nintendo Wii with the use of a Freeloader or any other kind of mod chip or swap disc.
Blues isn't just about what you play, but how you play it. Here, Charles Sedlak shows you how to style your blues playing with vibrato techniques. Feel those strings, personally, for perfect bend pitches. Even the pros screw this thing up.
Charles Sedlak shows you 'blues buffs' how to properly tune your guitar for a perfect blues experience. You already know how? Fine, then don't watch. But you'll be missing out.
Charles Sedlak demonstrates the Rasquedo, a strumming technique perfect for playing Flamenco. This guy knows his stuff, so sit up and listen.
If you never were a scout, or you've forgotten all your skills, this how-to video is for you. If the loop is under weight, the knot will not slip, but you will still be able to adjust the size of the loop by pulling down on the knot by hand. Perfect for all of our tarp tying needs. Watch this video survival training tutorial and learn how to tie the tautline hitch knot.
Learn how to perfect that upstrum and ghost-strum on your acoustic guitar with Charles Sedlak. What's a ghost-strum? Why don't you stop asking questions and just watch and see for yourself?
By far the best and most accurate way to tune your guitar, leaving your guitar with perfect pitch and tune. Start with the lower E string. Learn from master, Charles Sedlak.
Watch this video to check out how to make a home made rabbit snare. If you can't find stainless steel wire, brass or copper will work just as well. Make sure your string is very strong. Consider using a braided twine that is treated with a non-slip coating to prevent knot slippage.
This video illustrates in great detail how to create a perfect urethane rubber mold. Urethane Rubber molds are widely used when a flexible mold material is required and a more expensive or less abrasion-resistant silicone rubber is not desired. However, their use requires careful application of release agents. This process can be used in automotive, mechanical, fine art and film special effects uses.
This week, Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories joins me to teach you how to make a super clever little circuit called the Joule Thief! The Joule Thief allows you to squeeze the life out of what most people think of as "dead" batteries!
Learn to speak English by understanding how adverbs work in different scenarios. Perfect for beginners, intermediate and advanced students, these video lessons are as good as having an English teacher in your pocket!
Laser Tag is using lasers and projectors to tag buildings with light! This is a joint project between Graffiti Research Lab and Make Magazine's Bre Pettis. Tag with lights. It's reversible and non-destructive.
It's completely safe. Try this for your friends computer, or even better, for public school computers. Just imagine every computer in the class shutting down
People are terrified of cooking rice for some reason, and claim that it never comes out right. They say it’s either a big gluey mess, or crunchy and under-cooked! Well, this method should fix all those problems.
Learn how to play the basic beginner guitar chords. This handy video shows you the way a chord should be formed and how it should sound, perfect for those who are just starting out.
Learn how to perfect your craps game while in prison. This video demonstrates how to make dice from toilet paper, water and a ball point pen - a common form of entertainment in prison.
Wayne Phelps gives a brief yet descriptive tutorial on how to master the pulse control card trick. Perfect for both the experienced magician and those who just want to know a simple card trick.
In this tutorial, we learn how to draw a human skull. To start, you will use your pencil to draw a light outline of the skull on your paper. After this, you will start to add in more shading and lines throughout the face to make it look like it has depth and contours. From here, you will draw in the teeth and then create the nose and the pits for the eyes. After this, you will start to shade in the sides of the skull darker and then add in any additional details like small cracks on the face....
In order to juggle a 6-1-5 juggling stunt, you will need the following: four balls. There are 3 consecutive throws, which do 3 different things. The set up is an a-sync four ball pattern. You have to throw 2 5's. Your dominant hand should throw the first crossing throw at 5 ball height. Then, your non-dominant hand will have to do the same.
Tut Teacher shows that if you're going to edit alot of pictures, learning to change your eye color in Photoshop is helpful.Go to Photoshop and open "human eye", zoom in and it gives more room to work with. First, go to your lasso tool, hold down and click. You can click and drag or click along the outside edge. Set to 6 pixels, more or less depending on the image. Make sure you don't click on scanner..it'll make the image go crazy. Keep clicking along the edge there'll be a symbol on the circ...
Seven easy basic art methods and steps to drawing Anakin Skywalker. The first 1-3 steps illustrates the basic drawing methods for the human head shape, and line placement for a basic human head. The fourth step illustrates basic drawing of the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. Step five illustrates the basic shading around the eyes, nose, ears and mouth. Step six illustrates how to add the shaping and styling of the hair and facial features. The final step illustrates how to shade the hair. It also...
If you want to know how to tie a Double Windsor knot, this video is for you. To tie a Double Windsor knot: Lift up the collar of your shirt. Place the tie around the back of your neck so that the wide end hangs down on the side of your dominant hand, a little more than twice as low as the thin end. Cross the wide end once over the front of the thin end and then around the back of the thin end a few inches below your neck. Slip the wide end through the back of the V-shape made by the knot, pul...
