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News: Adam Cosco's Short Film 'KNIVES' Ups the Ante on Virtual Reality Moviemaking

While you can't turn art into a formula, the film industry has managed to come stupidly close. While many storytelling principles still stand across mediums, successfully crafting a compelling, immersive narrative in virtual reality requires a brand new rulebook. Through trial, error, and success, writer/director/editor Adam Cosco figured out the right rules to follow (and break) in "KNIVES"—his latest 360-degree short film. The film tells an old-fashioned tale of a woman, Kelsey Frye, strugg...

How To: Get All the News, Tips, and Tricks for Your Specific Android Device in One Place with Drippler

There are thousands of articles published every day about smartphones, tablets, eReaders, and any other kind of gadgets you can think of. The problem is that most people only really care about news related to the devices they actually own. So how do you filter out all of the stuff you don't care about? That's what Drippler does. It pulls news, tips, and app reviews and recommendations from all over the web and puts them all in one place, but only for the devices you want to read about. You te...

How To: Play "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis on the bass

Want to know how to perform the bass part to Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" from their 1996 album (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Learn how to lay it down with this free video bass lesson, which presents a complete breakdown of the song's bass line. While this tutorial is best suited for intermediate players, bassists of all skill levels can play along given a little time and effort. For more information, and to get started playing this Oasis song on your own bass guitar, watch this how-to!

How To: Make children listen with their "listening ears"

In this video from CullensAbcs we learn a tip for how to children should listen with their "listening ears." This is taught by a girl and a gator puppet. She says to ask children to put on their listening ears so they can hear a story you are going to read to them or if you have something that you are going to say. Children like doing these types of things. It's a great tip to use to get your child to hear what you have to say. They can also make a sound when putting on their listening ears t...

How To: Make children listen with the marshmallow game

In this video, we learn how to make children listen with the marshmallow game. When you are trying to tell a story to children, they can talk and start a conversation without being quiet. To help this out, tell the children to put a pretend marshmallow in their mouth and they will pretend to chew it! Have them put more and more marshmallows into their mouth so it will be filled up and they can't talk. Make sure they continue to breathe while they are doing this, sometimes they hold their brea...

How To: Do the "Emerge Triumphunt" magic card trick

This is a video tutorial in the Magic & Parlor Tricks category where you are going to learn how to do card trick: "Emerge Triumphant". Have the deck of cards completely in the standard form in which it comes. The sequence is spades, diamonds, clubs and hearts. The trick is keeping the deck in the order it comes, do straight cuts, swivel cuts, one handed cuts and false riffle shuffle. It shows riffling, shuffling and cutting the deck. But, when you expose the deck, it is still in the same orde...

How To: Make an elegant origami gliding swan

Watch this origami tutorial and in no time at all you'll transform an ordinary piece of paper into a fabulous, beautiful swan, unsuspectingly reenacting the classic gratifying story of "The Ugly Duckling." All you need are two hands with more or less dexterous fingers and a piece of white origami tissue paper or printer paper.

How To: Begin reading tarot cards

Peter John teaches us how to red tarot cards in this tutorial. You will need to clear your mind before you begin to read, as well as relax. Now, take your cards and lay out a few of them in front of you. It doesn't matter which you lay out or how you lay them out. Now let your imagination take over while you look at the cards. Try to piece them together in any form that you prefer. Make a story for the cards that fits together. Using your imagination will bring out your psychic ability, assis...

How To: Easily perform a levitation trick

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to perform the levitation trick. Before performing this trick, users will need to attach the invisible thread onto their ear. Begin by applying some wax to the left middle finger. Then take the item that you wish to levitate with the wax sill on your finger. Now begin connecting with the spectator and build up a story. Then attach the thread from your ear to the item. Move your hand away from your body. The thread will stretch and the item will start ...

How To: Make an adorable fondant pink elephant

Thanks to Mrs. Betty Crocker anyone can proclaim herself a good baker, thereby confusing the line between actuall good bakers and those who rely on Mrs. Crocker's famous pre-made ingredients mixture. While anyone can bake a delicious set of cupcakes, though, making these cupcakes look professional is a whole other story.

How To: Install solar panels to your home

Solar panels have been around for quite some time now and more people are taking a shot at being "green" with their homes. Finding and picking the right solar panels can be easy, but getting it ready is another story. This is a task that many people try to tackle on their own, but is sometimes better to hire a professional. In this tutorial, you'll see what it takes to install solar panels on a home. It's easy to follow and can make life better for you and others. Good luck and enjoy!

How To: Get the Sharpshooter Destruction in Call of Juarez:BIB

If you've never played a western game before, starting off with Call of Juarez:Bound in Blood might be a good start. This first-person shooter has a great arsenal of weapons, solid story, and pretty nice graphics. If you're starting off with this game, why not grab an achievement or two while you're at it. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to get the Sharpshooter Destruction achievement. It requires you to be very quick and accurate. So check it out and enjoy!

How To: Get the Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope achievement in Batman:AA

If you've played previous Batman titles, you already know how bad they have been. Poor graphics, dumb story lines, and even worse fighting mechanics. Well, Batman: Arkham Asylum is the complete opposite of those previous games. So, if you haven't played it, what are you waiting for? Aside from all the great things this game has to offer, there are still achievements that need to be collected. In this tutorial you'll find how to get the Rope-A-Dope-A-Dope achievement by just letting a haning a...

How To: Complete the Hades Kids challenge in God of War 3

God of War 3 is an awesome game with beautiful visuals and great fighting moves. No wonder it's one of the greatest games ever on the PS3. But despite story mode, there are also challenges that need to be completed. These will pit you against a timer and require all your fighting skills to be out in full force. In this tutorial, you'll discover how to complete the Hades Kids challenge using some helpfult tips from the video. So sit back and enjoy!

How To: Beat the P.E.C. challenges in Splinter Cell Conviction

Sam Fisher is back and boy is he mad! The man, as well as the iconic goggles, are back in Splinter Cell: Conviction for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Aside from the original story mode, the game also offers a bunch of great P.E.C. challenges that are sure to keep gamers busy. Some of these challenges are easy to complete, while others are extremely difficult and require great skill to complete. So in this helpful tutorial from the people at IGN, you'll find out how to rule the challenges using some h...

How To: Draw an evil fantasy creature

Drawing the massive evil creatures that are a fixture of fantasy stories is arguably the most challenging part of all fantasy art. This three-part video demonstrates the drawing of a majestically demonic figure in pencil that is sure to terrify whatever plucky troop of heroes that you create to go up against her!

How To: Do a Taylor Swift updo

TipsFromXOXOSarah takes us through a step by step instruction on how to get Taylor Swift's up-do from her song, "Love Story." With hair parted to the side, she begins with curly hair and gently swoops it in the back with a large bobby pin making a messy bun. She leaves a cluster of curly bangs hanging by the right side of her face. The loose curls left around the back of her head from the messy bun are then put up with a few smaller bobby pins. She then pushes up the bun up and bobby pins it ...

How To: Remove a nitro engine from a remote control vehicle

In this video you will learn how to remove a nitro engine from a remote control vehicle. One way you can do this is by removing your mount from the bottom, this can be done by removing the screws on the bottom. Another way to this is to remove the engine from the mount. Aside from the tools needed to remove certain parts, a lot of the pieces are easy to remove as all you need to do is slide them out or pop them out. Squirrel says that its fairly easy to remove but putting them all in is anoth...

How To: Add or subtract fractions with math

Learn how to add or subtract fractions with math in simple steps. First convert any story line you have into a fraction. Now you have to convert the denominators so that both the fractions have the same. To do so multiply both the numerators and denominators with the same number. Now when you have the same denominators add the numerators to get the answer. Reduce the fractions to a lower value if you wish. Try this out with some other examples.