News: Rick Roll
Puzzled? We were too, when Bryan here at Wonder'HowTo punked us-- hiding this 80's music video in an email entitled 'WonderHowTo on Colbert Report'. Doh! Totally fell for it! Twice.
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News: Speak African Click
Check out this lesson in KhoeKhoegowab, the Namibian language commonly referred to as Click
News: DIY your own MultiTouch Screen
Ever since we got our fingers on the iPhone, we've been fascinated by multitouch. Why couldn't everything be so physically interactive?
News: Free Graffiti Research Lab!!!
Our friends at Graffiti Research Lab were detained in Beijing over the weekend on charges of “upsetting public order”.
News: Dissect a human ear
For most, anatomy dissections stopped at the frog. We can all experience med school cadaver picking thanks to an excellent library of videos published by the University of Wisconsion. No MCAT's required.
News: Why should you covet a Fixie bike?
(We did not know about these, either...until we discovered these videos.) The fixed gear bike, also called a fixie, was designed for track racing in the velodrome. Working bike messengers brought them to the NYC, Tokyo, SF, London streets on account the cycles gave them far more control to maneuver the urban jungle. The Chinese acrobat peddling a bike with 18 contortionists wrapped around him, must have a fixie.
News: Taser dear friends with hacked camera
We almost forgot about the disposable camera. With every cell phone outfitted with a camera, who needs the emergency 7-Eleven point-n-shoot?
News: Pop popcorn with your cell phone...NOT!
Watch this first 'tutorial'.FauxTo! Hoax! Con! May 28, 2008, this video was uploaded to YouTube illustrating the popcorn popping power of a circle of ringing mobile phones. Radiation. Amazing. Viral. Millions viewed.
News: Strut like a supermodel
The average human will make over 300 million footsteps in a lifetime. Who knew we needed instruction for walking?
News: Identify birds by sight
Birdwatching! I've never considered it a hobby, but more a daily delight of growing up in New England. We had the book in the kitchen and we'd mark off each bird we'd spotted and the date it visited us.
News: Devour boy-prey...like a cougar. Rrrrrrr.
Yowsa. Mariah Carey 38, came out from a paparazzi vortex last week marrying Nick Cannon 27. She and her cougar cohorts are not ashamed to be the older woman in their relationships.
How To: dance with Napoleon Dynamite
Ok. This is an experiment in excellence. Never before have I recommended a non-embedded video. Until now.
How To: Find the Heart of Liberty City in GTA IV
WonderHowTo is game on. Note for the devoted gamers with a code of ethics: spoiler alert. This cheat exemplifies the argument that video games are modern social commentary. Just when you thought this game was only about shooting hookers and scoring drugs. This odd Easter Egg gets to the heart of Liberty City, literally.
How To: find the half naked man in Halo 3
For those of you who are not gaming enthusiasts, this is a gaming "Easter Egg". The creation of video games and animated movies require thousands of hours of toiling behind the computer. So, it is little surprise that the engineers leave behind random, little Easter egg surprises of self expression in unexpected places.
How To: tattoo
My body is my temple. This temple is scared of needles. This excellent tutorial is as close as I need to get to a tattoo needle.
How To: draw suggestive doodles
What is not to enjoy in this subersive tutorial? Who can live without the weenie drawing montage in Superbad? Classic. Jonah Hill in Superbad authoritatively cites that 70% of us are afflicted with this primal need to draw every object with a John Thomas.
How To: watch any video on Youtube in HD!
Believe it or not, yes, Youtube is getting ready for high definition. But, because (me thinks) of the cost structure involved, they ain't advertising the hell out of this feature, yet.
How To: duck dive
Looks simple. It ain't. Surfing is an amazing sport. Zen like. I have been surfing for more than 10 years.
How To: clean skulls
Based in Santa Monica, we don't have much occasion to go hunting or clean skulls. We could, but we just do not.
How To: make curtains open with a measuring tape
This video is very clever, if a bit Rube Goldberg. It is the kind of thing that would be entirely charming if executed by an 8 year old boy.
How To: ask for a raise
Boy oh boy. This tutorial is actually thoughtful. Most impressive is that it has that rare thing: common sense.
How To: zoom into a human eye
Amazing. Truly. This is a WonderHowTo weekend digression. When we get excited, we just gots to share. Ok. Ok. Almost all of our tutorials possess a DIY sensibility and bias. Education is a complex relative of DIY and causes us taxonomical gas. But we love the category, nonetheless.
How To: walk and Hula Hoop
(Note: I am taking a chance. These Youtube embeds have been so tempermental since the Pakistan routing problem. Try hitting refresh if the video does not play through.)
How To: do the Spongebob dance
Practice at home. Be fashionable. Impress your friends. Remember Darrin's Dance Grooves? You had to buy a $19.99 vhs. Pop it and lock it like 'N Synch.
How To: breathe (cornstarch) fire and not die
This video works. Watch this ordinary guy shovel mounds of bone-dry corn starch into his mouth. A combination of six step tutorial and gratuitous chestpounding, this video is a simple example of the cornstarch (or flour) bomb.
How To: create animation by hand
One great, award winning How-to. Produced 20 year ago. You might have observed that on Sundays we tend to slow down the pace. Which is to say that we enjoy offering a leisurely How-to on the Lord's holy day. Be patient, Tonto: the subtitling is primitive: and the running time is as long as it needs to be: and yes, it was produced before the frenetic era of the internet.
How To: make a homemade snow globe
A snow globe with Elvis. If you don't dig Elvis, choose your own campy figurine. Very groovy. I will admit. I am slowly trying to get in touch with my feminine side. Amie is helping me. Like when I chose 'how to give a massage' as clip of the day on Valentine's day.
How To: use Google to download music
Lord have mercy! Works better than Napster or Limewire...in their hey day. We tested this video. Someone has to school me on the legalities. This tutorial and this method work like magic. Excellent. No cost. Beatles. Led Zepplin. Everything and more.
How To: make alternative tripods
Where was this video when I needed it? Bag of rice. Water bottle. 1/4 bolt with #20 thread. String.
How To: make a metronome with a candle
Umm. The metronome was invented by Dietrich Nikolaus Winkel in Amsterdam in 1812. So by my calculations Wolfgang Amadeus missed the boat by exactly 21 years.
How To: make dripping street art
In the world of instructional video, there are some videos that transcend debate. Is there the intent to instruct? Is the idea simple and original? Is a step by step process articulated? Is the content revelatory?
How To: make Pancakes - the stop motion way
This guy from the east coast of Scotland has successfully mated the classic procedural tutorial with stop motion film making. 25 years old. Composed the music to boot. None of the visual techniques are new. But that does not make the video any less satisfying.
How To: not suck at Photoshop
Even if you do not understand Photoshop, you should watch this, because the storytelling is great. As our 90,000+ video library attests, how-to's are a genre, per se. And screencasts are a particular sub-genre, especially useful for software instruction.
How To: make soul food style corn bread
You know what day it is. MLK is one of the most powerful orators in the history of the world. No doubt. Black history month is upon us.
How To: hogtie a brunette
We solicit your honest response. Truly. We are a nascent community establishing boundaries. On the one hand, this is a how-to video. Revelatory, step by step, procedural.
News: The FBI needed this laser mod for Martin Luther King
Starting in 1961 the FBI and an army of other non-believers, wiretapped MLK. All found nothing but gossip. No one was able to nail him with any evidence of sedition.
News: Rescue a submerged snowmobile
Snowmobilers make a lot of noise and annoy a lot of people (like me). So it is with some glee that I recommend this video on how to rescue a submerged snowmobile. That said, there is a leisurely beauty to this 8 minute and 37 second piece. It takes the appropriate time to tell the whole story without fancy editing. The natural questioning of a little boy becomes perfect play by play narration.
How To: Search and refine results in WonderHowTo
Lucy once ranted to Ricky, "How can I look up a word in the dictionary if I don't know how to spell it?" A very logical conundrum that exists in the world of video search as well.
News: Make a compact chair from (free) post office boxes
Because of this one video, the company mail room can once again reclaim its destiny as a cultural Mecca. Face the facts: xeroxing your behind-crack during lunch break is so ... yesterday.
News: Make a wallet out of tape
Happy new year. But I am not that happy. I am feeling kind of blue. A holiday post partum. I just ate a great deal of food, and I am feeling lazy. It is cold outside. Nothing much on TV. I am waiting for the big playoff games. What can I do right now. My moment. Right now.