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How To: Use a kayak rudder

First of all you have to understand that if you don't have a rudder in you kayak, still you need not worry. The rudder is far from being any essential piece of the kayak. However if you still decide to want one then you can add one later. Rudder is placed on the side of the kayak. When you want to lower it then you have to pull the chord to move it down from its stored position. You have to control the rudder with foot pedals. The main purpose of the rudder in a kayak is not to turn a kayak. ...

How To: Do a killer upper chest workout

First of all you have to understand that this exercise is very versatile and you can actually target different areas of your chest just by twisting your wrists. First of all lie down on the bench and hold the dumbbells in your hands. You can do this upper chest exercise to build your upper chest muscles using dumbbells. Now bring your dumbbells down and then again take them up. While bringing your dumbbells you have to twist your wrists towards inside such that your palms are facing away from...

How To: Create the beehive hair style

First of all you need a long hair brush and a teeth hair brush. You may also use a band for adding glamour. Start by spreading the hair on the front of the head. Now go one inch behind and then take a lock of hair and then comb it and then start back-combing it to the front. Repeat this process taking different locks of hairs at the top and then back-combing them in sections. So you get a hair line on the top of the head which divides the hair into two parts. Now you have to comb the back por...

How To: Pack a backpack for mountaineering

The video demonstrates how you should pack to be fully equipped and prepared for a backpacking trip that lasts 2-3 days. Gather all of your equipment including clothes, food, water, climbing gear, emergency kit, sleeping back, and more. When you start to pack, you want to make your center of gravity is very low so pack your heavier items near your back and lighter ones that aren’t required immediately during your trip such as your sleeping bag at the bottom of the backpack. Also remember th...

How To: Draw Master Chief from the video game, Halo

First of all you have to draw the rough sketch using light color lines. You have to draw blocks to the size of helmet, chest, two arms, legs and boots. Now start from the helmet and draw the outline. Draw the glass for viewing. Draw the lines as shown on the helmet. Also darken the spots as shown. Now draw the chest guard. Draw the lines to make all the different straps and marks over the armor. You also have to draw a tank at behind. Make the arm and the gloves. Now draw the outline of a gun...

How To: Throw a giant clay pottery novelty goblet

IngletonPottery demonstrates how to create a giant clay pottery novelty goblet in less than eight minutes in this video. The goblet can be used as a decorative piece or it can be used to drink from. The choices are endless for this giant piece of art. The giant goblet begins as a big blob of clay. A portion of the clay is wet and the spinning table begins. While the clay is wet it is placed on the spinning table and then the molding process begins. To mold the clay requires concentration and ...

How To: Make your own kilt pin in minutes

First of all you need roll of wire around 1 or 1.25 millimeter thick. Now take the roll of wire and using a round nose pliers bend the wire about 5 cm. now take a flat nose pliers and the hold the ends and bend it round to make a hook. Now taper off the end and then straighten the wire. This shall be the top portion of your pin. Now take round nose pliers and then wrap it in a complete circle and then repeat it two more times. This shall produce three loops and you can also adjust the length ...

How To: Draw a cartoon fox head

Here is an easy way to draw a cartoon fox. First draw a imperfect circle which is similar to face. Then draw ears which is curve shaped, sharp at its edges. Then draw its mouth part. The upper jaw must be bigger than the lower one. Now move to the eye part joining from the mouth part. Draw teeth and to make more attractable draw whiskers on each side. Draw an attractive belt in the neck side and in order to look real, draw hair portion on the head part and also on the side edges. Now erase th...

How To: Draw Mario from Mushroom Kingdom

First of all you need a pencil and a sheet of white paper. You have to start with the cap and then the round face. Now draw the eyes and the mouth. Draw the badge over its cap. Now draw the ears. Then you have to draw the two hands. Draw the body and make some pockets as shown. Now draw the boots. Now make the eyebrows. Make the soles of the boots. Shade in the forehead with your pencil and then wipe it with a tissue paper. Then use an eraser to erase it a little. Now darken the eyebrows. Mak...

How To: Eat starfish

Are you bored with ordinary meals? Why not tap into your adventurous side and try Starfish? Yes, that's right, those cute little fish that you see on the sand - you can eat them! So, if you are interested, check out this video and master the techniques needed to eat these spiny sea creatures.

How To: Build a Bulldog 5x4 large format camera

First of all open the box and take out the kit, different parts and the instruction manual. You also need glue, epoxy adhesives, sand paper, 2 mm drill and a 4 mm drill. Start with assembling the outer frame of the camera by fixing in the slots. Use a screw driver to screw the bolts. Now use the glue and fix the inner parts of the camera. Now make the front portion of the camera. Fix it exactly as shown in the instruction Manual. Now drill in the holes on the sides of the camera's outer frame...

How To: Make Wiccan spell poppets

In this video we learn how to make a poppet. A poppet is generally used to give protection, healing to the ones we love. It may be our cat, aunt, home, or whatever we like to do it for. Here in this video we make a poppet for an animal. So the requirements are color shields, scissors, lavender and roots (for protection), citrine. Citrine helps in cleansing. Draw the shape of the animal we require on a cloth of two stacks and cut it using scissors. Use the thread to attach the edges. Leave a s...

How To: Say hello, please & thank you in German

This video teaches viewers how to say common phrases in German such as Hello, Please and Thank you! To say Hello, good day in German you would say 'Hallo, guten tag'! The portion of the phrase 'hallo' means Hello in German. Hello, Good morning in German is 'Hallo, guten morgen'. Hello, good evening means 'Hallo, guten abend' in German. 'Gute Nacht' means good night in German. If you would like to say Goodbye or See you again in some time, you would say 'Auf Wiedersehen' in German. If you know...

How To: Use the levels and histogram in Photoshop

Deke McClelland explains what the Levels and Histogram commands can do in Photoshop in this video tutorial. Levels allows you to adjust the luminance levels allowing you to adjust the contrast and colors within each color channel of an image. Thus, Levels allows you to adjust the individual colors that can be found within a gradient. This command is very similar to the curves command but to a less powerful extent. It is also more efficient than the curves command. The Histogram is another col...

How To: Make herbal & essential oil bath salts

The main ingredients needed in both herbal and essential oil bath salts your main ingredients needed are Epsom salts, baking soda (not needed if salts will be used immediately), and sea salt. For the essential oil bath salts you will need essential oils, and for the herbal bath salts you need whatever herbs or rinds you like. You will also need some sort of container to put the salts in, and measuring tools. For the essential oil salts, fill a jar about halfway with Epsom salts, then add a ge...

How To: Apply Ed Hardy inspired makeup

In this beauty tutorial, learn how to get the dramatic eye synonymous with Ed Hardy-Inspired makeup. The first thing you will need to do is apply a foundation over your entire eye area. Because so much makeup is being used, you really want to make sure there is a foundation in place to keep all of the color in place. Then, with a no. 217 brush, sweep a dark navy blue color over your entire lid as well as the crease. Line your lower lash line with a dark blue cream eye shadow and also fill in ...

How To: Detect the freshness of a mango

The ‘Mango’ is a favorite fruit for most of us, undoubtedly. However, choosing the right mango is of utmost importance, if one wants to savor its taste to the best! This video shows how to check for the freshness and choose the right mango. Always pick up a mango which is reddish or pinkish all way round. It may have a patch of sunset yellow but certainly not green. It should feel soft when gently pressed. Most importantly, it should smell sweet like candy, especially at the base of the stem ...

How To: Make a great looking paper box

In the video, a boy named George explains how to make a paper box for wrapping gifts in it. For that, first we need two square color papers of any color, and a pair of scissors. In the box making procedure, first place a paper on table, face down. Now fold it diagonally, twice. Unfold it. Then fold the sides twice, to make regular square shapes. Unfold it. Mark the center part using a pen. Cut the paper leaving two folds on four parts, fold it in. Then fold the rest of the part of the paper o...

How To: Draw older faces, front view

Concept/ 3d character artist, Xia, teaches viewers how to draw an old man's face. Draw an elongated circle that will serve as the face. Make a horizontal line on the upper portion of the face and draw the eyes. Draw the nose and the eye brows accordingly. Achieve an older look by drawing creases along the nose. Draw the ears right along the same level as the eye line. Add more creases on the forehead for a more aged look. Draw deep cheekbones. Start drawing the beard. Add more creases below t...

How To: Steal Megan Fox's look from the Transformers premiere

Make up artist Katie teaches viewers easy to follow techniques in achieving a Megan Fox make up look. Using a make up brush, apply concealer below the eyes and areas all over the face. Use a sponge to apply the foundation and gently blend it with the concealer to achieve a flawless look. To achieve a glow in your face, use a blush brush and apply blush on shade with a fine shimmer all over the face with emphasis on the cheeks and forehead. Perfect-shaped eye brows is achieved by applying blac...

How To: Make a pop-up card for any occassion

To make a pop-up card follow the instructions below. First fold two pieces of the same size heavy card stock or construction paper in half. Use the first one for your outer card, and the other for your inner cutout card. Cut a 1-1/2 inch strip in the inner card's center and make two slits down from the fold to make the strip. Then, fold the strip inward so that the fold is inside the card and the card has a rectangular hole in the middle of the fold when closed. This will be the base to use w...

How To: Create a "crocodile tears" makeup look

YOUTUBE Logan Salter presents a video demonstrating a method to create "Crocodile Tear" Makeup. The entire video is demonstrated through visual action, with typed titles in green appearing on the screen prior to each new step, and electronica music played throughout. Logan begins by applying moisturizer, demonstrated visually in the video by applying moisturizer to his facial area and moves at an increasingly faster rate through steps visually demonstrating how to apply various powders and br...

How To: Create a non-profit Facebook page in 4 minutes

A Facebook page formatted specifically for non-profits can be created in a matter of minutes with this video tutorial from John Haydon. The first step you need to take is to search for any page. In this tutorial, Haydon searches for the page "Facebook Pages/Public Profiles" to use as the example. On the bottom left (of any Facebook page), you will notice that there is a link for "Create a Page for My Business." Click on that link, which allows you to begin the page creation process. Non-profi...

How To: Make a paper orchid

To make a Paper Orchid you need to know the steps as follows: First fold a square sheet of origami stock paper into a triangle, bringing both points together. Use this as your flower base. Fold the paper again bringing both corners together. Rub your finger along the crease of the fold to make sure that it stays put. This step completes the triangle base. Begin making the flower base by taking the triangle base folded over twice and adding a third piece, folding it over as well to meet with t...

How To: Play "The Four Horsemen" by Metallica on rhythm guitar

Want to develop brutal rhythm technique? In this five-part video tutorial series, you'll learn how to play the rhythm guitar parts to Metallica's "The Four Horsemen" from their seminal Kill 'Em All album. Each of the series five segments takes a small portion of the song and presents it in real time as well as slow motion. While this tutorial is best suited for intermediate or advanced guitar players, guitarists of all skill levels can attempt to play along. Watch this lesson to get started p...