Watch this instructional video to form the structure of a mini parachute using a loop of string. Pay close attention to the hand motions, and weave the string into a knot. Do no be shocked when this string formation looks very similar to a mini parachute. You can then attach a plastic bag or thin piece of fabric to give your mini parachute a more permanent structure.
Try using a blowtorch to dry the outer portion of a ceramic pot. While the clay is still on the pottery wheel, cut light marks into the outer wall of the pot. Dry the outermost layer of wet clay with a blowtorch. When you continue to stretch and form the wet clay on the wheel, witness an interesting cracking effect.
Take a bow. This brief video tutorial demonstrates how to use your thumb and pointer finger to form a basic cello hold while familiarizing you with some of the more common pitfalls among cello novices.
Watch this instructional video to learn how to make an origami paper Milky Way ornament. With one piece of origami paper and a pair of scissors, one can form a beautiful ornament that is sometimes used for Tanabata, the Japanese festival of stars. This and other paper ornaments can be combined to create larger decorative pieces.
Want to improve your backhand? Proper technique and form are extremely important for this move. Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to execute the backhand with Pro Tour Coach Paul Baccanello.
Do you play tennis? Take a look at this instructional video and learn how to improve your forearm. This tutorial covers hand grip, form, and technique.
This banjo tutorial goes over working with a two note melodic scale in G major to form ideas for licks. This lesson teaches you improvisational techniques on the banjo. You will also learn the 3 different types of the melodic scales. Watch this how to video and you will be able to play banjo licks on a two note melodic scale in G major.
This video tutorial demonstrates the steps for drafting a sloper that shows the exact shape of an individual's body between the waist and the hips. It can be used to create skirts for women, the top of pants for men and women, and body doubles (aka Dress Forms). Learn how to draft a lower torso sloper by watching this video fashion design tutorial.
Dissolve styrofoam with acetone using tips from this how-to video. Acetone breaks the structure of polystyrene in its expanded form, styrofoam. The 'foam' bit goes away. In other words, acetone "dissolves" polystyrene.
This video is designed to give lots of clear and helpful information regarding the rib cable cast on" method, also referred to as the "alternate cable cast on" method. It is used as an edging for rib fabrics and forms a somewhat 'invisible' cast on edge that blends perfectly with the rib texture.
This video is designed to give lots of clear and helpful information about stocking stitch, aka stockinette stitch, which forms the basis of many knitted garments.
This AutoCAD 3D tutorial covers some fun with AutoCAD in making 3-D graphics using 3-D functions and rendering solid form.
The throttle body forms part of the air intake system that controls the amount of air flowing into the car's engine. Watch this how to video to learn how to remove the "air pedal" or throttle body from your vehicle.
Linguist Bud Brown shares some insights and advice about learning Vietnamese. This video talks about how to say the imperative (command) form.
Linguist Bud Brown share his insights on tag questions in Vietnamese. Bud first explains what are tag questions, then teaches how to form the tag question in Vietnamese. It's fun and easy, isn't it?
Linguist, Bud Brown shares his insights into the personal possessive forms "my" and "your". You gotta know these words and how to use them for everyday conversation for tagalog.
BPS golf instructor Steve Bishop discusses how to put your hands on the club properly to form a neutral golf grip. This grip video is different from his first. He goes into more detail about the function of the grip and some finer points not usually discussed.
An English teacher shows how to make the present perfect tense in the form of a question.
Learn how to construct yes or no questions in the past tense in English. The helping verb "did" and the simple form of the main verb make a question.
Air suspension (or pneumatic as it is sometimes called) is now fitted to many new carriages. It takes the form of very tough, rubberized air bags that are used throughout the world on industrial plant machinery. Learn how to understand and use it.
Learn how to do speed end of bench tricep push-ups drop set and sculpt your body without weights. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life.
Charles Sedlak shows you how to perform arpeggio picking - a note played in single chord form, or a broken chord. This video is good for beginners.
Use the Tesla CD Turbine running off tap water-pressure as an experimental testbed.
Crochet instructions are the linguistics of crochet. Crochet instructions normally come in the form of crochet patterns for example crochet baby blanket. Learn how to understand them by watching this video.
In percussion, the paradiddle is a four-note pattern of the form RLRR or LRLL. When multiple paradiddles are played in succession, the first note always alternates between right and left. Paradiddles. Isn't that a funny word? It's reason enough to watch this.
This video tutorial shows how to use the noatikl generative music VSTi with Cubase, for both Windows and Mac. noatikl is a generative (MIDI) music engine. It creates musical information in the form of MIDI notes, and can also generate and send MIDI controller information.
This video explains how to increase a knit stitch by knitting into the same stitch twice. This forms an invisible increase.
This reaction is between metallic magnesium and carbon dioxide. Magnesium reacts with oxygen in the air to form magnesium oxide, but when the only source of oxygen is from CO2 the reaction becomes much more energetic. The products are white magnesium oxide and black carbon.
Here is a great chest superset you can do at home with a cheap dumbbell set. Big gyms are nice but when you can get a killer workout at home without the overhead of getting to and from the gym. In this chest superset I am going to do incline press followed immediately by an incline fly variant. Make sure and use a really light weight on the flys so you can maintain good form.
Learn the correct form for running the "Back Pedal" drill around half the basketball court, then learn the correct way to warm up with this backward running drill.
Learn how to warm up for basketball with an effective stretch walk for the legs and core known as the Russian March. First see the proper form to use, then some drills.
Learn how to warm up to play basketball with a great stretching exercise for your leg muscles: lunge walks. First see the proper form, then see some drills.
Joe Kulak is a dedicated and passionate yoga teacher certified through Yoga Synthesis. Joe has been studying and teaching various forms of yoga for over a decade. Here he shows us how to do a seated spinal twist pose.
Learn some basic plumbing skills. Watch this video to learn how to glue PVC joint pipes together to form your drain lines.
Plyometrics is a form of exercise where you get the muscles to stretch before contracting. It also tends to get your heart rate up more. This video shows you how to do a plyometric version of a push-up.
In this video Corinne Bradd shows Kristy Clark the technique of felting, by matting together the fibres of unspun of wool with a barbed needle to create a dense form that can be shaped.
This Pamie Demo shows how to setup, install and run a simple automation script. It shows you: how to install Pamie, how to create a Pamie test script to Automate a form using PythonWin IDE, how to write the script and how to run the test. The volume is really low so crank your speakers way up and make sure you have the proper Python and programs downloaded.
Customize your kitchen or bathroom with your favorite tile. Learn how to grout tile to get professional-looking results. You will need several large buckets, several sponges, several rags, clean water, grout in powder form, a grout float, a triangular trowel, and a dust mask.
The ability of one microbe to adapt is giving it a whole new career as a sexually transmitted disease. Usually content with the back of the throat and nose of those who carry it, the dangerous pathogen Neisseria meningitidis has adapted to cause an illness that looks a lot like gonorrhea.
Welcome back, my hacker novitiates! If you have been following this new Snort series, you know that Snort is the world's most widely used intrusion detection/protection system. Now a part of the world's largest network equipment company, Cisco, it is likely to be found everywhere in one form or another. This makes a compelling argument for learning how to use it, as it will likely be a necessity in any security-related position.
