In this video, we learn how to do a grass silhouette effect in GIMP. First, draw a black mound and then close off your selection. After this, turn the path into a selection and fill it in with a black color. Next, select your smudge tool and use a small circle brush. Set the rate up to 95, depending on the length of grass you want. Now, use your mouse to push up on the mound and you will see wispy pieces of grass form where you are moving your mouse. Cross them over and cover as much of the a...
We enjoy the fuzzy wool yarns at craft stores as much as any other knitter, but did you know that yarn doesn't have to be made from wool or any of the typical yarn fibers? In fact, you can make your own yarn at home. Don't worry, we're not going to put you in front of a weaving machine.
In this video, we learn how to make a poached egg with water and vinegar. To begin, boil water in a pot, then turn down the temperature so it's just below boiling. Add salt into the water, then add in a little bit of vinegar to the water. Next, use a spoon to stir the water in a circular motion. Now, crack your egg into the middle of the pot and it will form the perfect age because of the circular motion of it. Turn the heat down slightly more, then cook for 90 minutes until the white part of...
Chinese calligraphy is amongst the most beautiful but also most difficult word art forms in the world, and practitioners spend years honing their skills, even devoting their entire lives to daily practice.
In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to make an origami butterfly ball. Begin by making a water bomb base with a squared paper. To do this, fold the paper both horizontally and vertically in half. Then fold the paper diagonally in half on both sides. The paper should have an X shape crease. Now pinch in the sides to form a triangle at the bottom. Then press down to create a triangle on top. Make a total of 12 water bomb bases and connect them together as shown in the video. This video wi...
Percents are handy for displaying statistics or labeling objects such as sale items in a store, or ingredient labels. However, in a math equation, a percent is a bit difficult to use. Therefore, you will need to convert your percents into an easier type of number form.
This video demonstrates how to tie a karate belt in a proper manner. Take the belt and fold it in half. Place the fold in the middle part of your abdomen where you need the knot. Cross the ends of the belt behind your back. The end in your right hand should be on the top and tuck in the end in the left hand underneath till the front. Take the end on the top and tuck beneath the belt, bottom to top on the other side. Pull the ends tightly, the two ends should be of almost equal length. Cross t...
Like A Flint demonstrates how to quickly make chainmail. First, find heavy gauge wire at a construction site or a craft store. Then, wrap the wire around a dowel or a tube until it forms a coiled spring. Remove the coiled spring from the tube and clip the spring into rings with a pair of wire cutters. Using two pairs of pliers, open up the ring and thread four rings inside of it. Close up the ring. Keep adding rings on top of rings until you achieve a chainmail like design. The process of mak...
Percent problems, also called as proportion problems, are simple problems where you deal with percentages. Given a percentage problem you may need to identify the percentage, the part or whole quantity from it. You can use the proportion or percent equation to do this. Proportion equations says that the ratio of part to the whole is equal to the ratio of percentage to one hundred. Percent equation says that the product of the percentage in the decimal form and the whole gives you the quantity...
This video is in the Arts and Crafts category and you will learn how to make fish-shaped earrings in this video. It is really very simple and easy to do this. You will need some silver plated rings that have hooks at one end and round nose pliers. First, press the hook with your fingers to give it the shape of a fish. Then with the pliers, bend the non-hook end of the ring backwards to form the tail of the fish. Now you have the fish-shaped earring. You can hook it into another ring and you h...
This lively video explains how to discuss future plans in Spanish. Professor Jason explains that it's not that difficult for English people learning Spanish as the same construction is used for 'going to'. There is also a separate future tense, using one set of endings that you simply add to the infinitive, but adding a stress on the final syllable, except for the first person plural. Of course, it's not quite so simple with irregular verbs, which have a special stem which has to be learned b...
In this video the tutor shows how to add fractions. Fractions are numbers in the form a/b, where a and b are normal numbers. He shows that to add two fraction we need their denominators to be same. If they are not same we need to take their least common multiple and change the fractions so that they have equal denominators. Now the numerators of these fractions can be directly added and the resultant fraction contains this numerator along with the original common denominator. Now this fractio...
This is a tutorial on how to compost at home with a composting bin. First, you have to select an area for composting ensuring a location with plenty of sun and a water supply. You will need to divide your bin into two sections, one for the finished compost, the other for creating compost. Line the container with vegetables, tea grounds, or even newspapers. Do not compost meat, bones, fat, grease, dairy products, or pet waste. The most important ingredients for compost are moisture and oxygen....
In this video the author shows how to increase height by stretching your body. There are various stretching methods that you can follow to strain the body and stretch it there by helping it to grow. There are various stretching exercise like the Cobra method where you lay down on the floor and try to stretch your body by shaping your body in the form of an arc. There is an another exercise called super cobra where you stretch the body in the opposite direction. There are also other stretching...
With this useful video, you will learn some tips and tricks about how to delete your web browser history, passwords, cookies, also cache form data and temporary internet files.
Patti the Garden Girl shows her viewers how to install a retaining wall in her urban garden. Garden Soxx is a product that will allow you to make a retaining wall in your garden that will prevent and fix any erosion problem you may have in your yard. After making a small shelf on the eroding section of dirt, place the round Garden Soxx inside the hole, forming a wall against erosion. Create a second layer of the Garden Soxx that overlaps with the first for maximum protection again any soil er...
This video from fitforafeast.com teaches us the basics for the Latin samba walk in place. The instructor, Julian, is very easy to understand as he takes us through the basics described below. 1. Stand with your feet together and bend your legs 2. Pull your left leg back and into a lunge 3. Bring your feet back together to form a plie 4. Repeat steps 1-3 using your right leg After Julian takes us through these basics he describes one of the most important moves, which is the bounce. Finally al...
-Fold up along the length of a spread open tissue about 5 times until you get a long rectangular shape.
Tired of eating a boring ceasar salad? Impress your guests with this tasty Indian dish. Check out this video for a tutorial on how to make Raita!
Pimples are definitely not a one size fits all condition. In this video, we'll look at the various forms of acne, from a basic blackhead to clusters of comedones. We'll also teach you the best skin care secrets to zap that zit!
Seizures can take a variety of forms. Learn more in this video.
Each year, one and half million Americans will be diagnosed with some form of cancer. If you or a loved one are among them, understanding the basics of the disease can help.
Every year, 250,000 Americans are diagnosed with a form of skin cancer called squamous cell carcinoma. What exactly is SCC?
Heart disease affects more than 20 million Americans. Let's explore the various forms that heart disease can take.
Money origami (or dollar bill) origami is cheap, fun, simple, and cute. It only takes a dollar bill with some folding paper skills to make some really cool stuff. Spend that spare dollar in your pocket on some good old fashioned creativity -- you will end up with a cool puffy star origami figure.
Cassidy Schaub demonstrates two handed delivery (back). Pick up some bowling tips and tricks to improve your game, whether you are a beginner or a competitive bowler in a bowling league. Learn the form for two-handed delivery with this bowling video. These bowling tutorials are brought to you by USBC, United Stated Bowling Congress. Search USBC on WonderHowTo for more bowling tutorials. From the USBC website: "USBC is the national governing body for bowling as recognized by the United States ...
Cassidy Schaub demonstrates two handed delivery (front). Pick up some bowling tips and tricks to improve your game, whether you are a beginner or a competitive bowler in a bowling league. Learn the form for two-handed delivery with this bowling video.
Watch and learn how to solve the Hanayama Cast Chain metal puzzle in this video tutorial. The Hanayama Cast Chain is a 6 out of 6 for difficulty.
Belly dance is originally a form of traditional Arab dance. Most of the techniques of belly dance demonstrate circular motions in the core area of the body (the belly, the hips). Belly dancing is a fun, sensual dance that also builds & strengthens abdominal muscles. In this belly dancing lesson, learn Amira's Belly Dance Combo. Follow along with this belly dance tutorial to master this move.
Belly dance is originally a form of traditional Arab dance. Most of the techniques of belly dance demonstrate circular motions in the core area of the body (the belly, the hips). Belly dancing is a fun, sensual dance that also builds & strengthens abdominal muscles. In this belly dancing lesson, learn the Circle Wave Combo move. Follow along with this belly dance tutorial to master this move.
Belly dance is originally a form of traditional Arab dance. Most of the techniques of belly dance demonstrate circular motions in the core area of the body (the belly, the hips). Belly dancing is a fun, sensual dance that also builds & strengthens abdominal muscles. In this belly dancing lesson, learn the circle step combo move. Follow along with this belly dance tutorial to master this move.
The tarbuck knot is a non-jamming knot, great for when the rope will be bearing a heavy load, and shocked with sudden weight. Form the loop around the winch then make a serises of turns around the standing part in a clockwise direction. Bring the running end down to the base of the runs and make another clockwise turn finishing off with a figure eight through the exiting strand from the top turn. Watch this video knot-tying tutorial and learn how to tie a tarbuck knot.
Home improvement expert Danny Lipford helps you figure out a way to get the perfect hole depth when drilling. Watch this video tutorial to see how to make an easy drill bit depth gauge.
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The line dance is a dance with repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines, all facing the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time. Line dancing's popularity grew out of the 1970's, when the country-western dance continued to explore and develop this form of dancing.
The line dance is a dance with repeated sequence of steps in which a group of people dance in one or more lines, all facing the same direction, and executing the steps at the same time. Line dancing's popularity grew out of the 1970's, when the country-western dance continued to explore and develop this form of dancing.
When shooting a shotgun, you don't really have to aim--just point and shoot. Whether you hit what you're shooting at depends on how well you did your homework. "Patterning" your shotgun allows you to choose exactly the right brand of shells, size and type of shot and type of choke required for the game you're pursuing. Set yourself up 40 yards from a 30-inch circle target, and bring along several brands of shells in various shot sizes. Use some form of rest like sandbags on a table or a rolle...
This two part how to video series will cover the written Arabic language and then speech. This first lesson contains the basic isolated consonant forms. The second lesson will teach how to write basic words and how the isolated consonants change shape depending on where they are in the word. Follow these videos and you will be writing the modern standard Arabic alphabet in no time. Learning Arabic is not as hard as you'd think. If you have a good system you will be able to quickly learn how t...
Watch this video to learn how to make a penny operated nitric acid fountain. Nitric acid acts upon copper to yield nitric oxide in an exothermic reaction. The expanding gas displaces water from another flask; actually bubbles in this set up. When the gas cools, the water is drawn back into the flask, dissolving the nitric oxide and forming a blue solution with the copper ions still there. Very cool science experiment with a neat reaction.
This Scooby's Workshop video shows proper form of the incline dumbbell fly exercise for pecs. Fly type exercises have done far more for my pec development than the pushing type exercises. In doing flys, make sure that your arms do NOT go behind the plane of your body as this puts too much stress on the shoulder joint. If you don't have a incline bench, you can make one as I have done here by tying a 2x8 securely to a coffee table. This exercise is best done with a spotter for safety, if you m...
