July 2009

How to Draw a Manga Face – A Quick Manga Face Tutorial

July 20, 2009

Faces seem complicated, but they’re not once you understand how to start off properly and then simply use reference points to figure out where to put everything. You can really learn to do this right now, today, and start drawing decent quality Manga characters almost immediately. To draw a Manga face, the first thing you [...]

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How to Make a Hot Air Balloon – Goes for miles, often reported as a UFO :)

July 16, 2009

The hot air balloon is the oldest successful device capable of carrying humans in flight–the first successful manned flight was on November 21, 1783, in Paris by Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent d’Arlandes. A hot air balloon is constructed out of an envelope (the bag that holds the hot air) that is capable [...]

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How to Whiten Teeth at Home for Under $10 AND It’s Identical to the Procedure Used by Dentists

July 15, 2009

What I’ve got here is going to be really valuable to you if you want to whiten your teeth but don’t want to go to the trouble of making a dentist appointment and paying them $200 or more: this girl in the video below worked as an assistant in a dentist’s office for several months [...]

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How to Remember Names – Never commit this faux pas again

July 14, 2009

This is an extraordinarily common problem that almost everybody deals with from time to time, which should make you feel a bit better about doing it: first off, almost no one is going to be offended if you forget their name, especially if you’ve just met them, because they themselves have inevitably done the same [...]

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How to Paintball (and win): Basics + Extra Tips

July 10, 2009

Alright, today I’ve got a whole series of videos (one half-funny/half-serious, the rest pretty serious and straightforward), so this is going to be quite a comprehensive post and should get you well on your way in not only getting started in paintball but, if you follow the instructions, getting you to definitely be a serious [...]

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How to Cow Tip

July 9, 2009

Not much else to say about this, got a few extra tips after the video that they don’t mention, but come on: after seeing this, how could I not put this on here ?? Couple of extra tips: Stay downwind of the cow: they can smell you, and this will spook them. When you approach [...]

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How to Solder Wires Together Properly

July 8, 2009

Ok, just a quick little video here I’ve got that’ll show you how to properly solder two wires together–this is usually the first thing people want or need to do when they start soldering electronics, and it’s a basic skill you need to have, plus it’s really not quite as simple and straight forward as [...]

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How to Solder Copper (Pipe, Tubing, Fittings, Parts, etc.)

July 8, 2009

Soldering is a method of joining various metal items by melting and flowing a filler substance (usually metal) into the joint–the filler has to have a melting point that is lower than that of the materials it is joining. Soldering is different from welding because you’re not melting the base metals during the joining process, [...]

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Money Origami Heart How-To (with video)

July 7, 2009

Ok, this is just kind of a quick little bonus to go with my previous post on how to make an origami heart, except here instead of using traditional paper we’re going to do it with a dollar bill. Wouldn’t this be a great little impromptu trick you could do for a girl at a [...]

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How to Make an Origami Heart (with AWESOME video)

July 7, 2009

Origami (折り紙–oru means “folding”, and kami means “paper”) is the art of folding paper to look like real-life objects such as animals, plants, flowers, etc. This is done by using geometric folding and creasing, and the traditional method dictates that you not use any glue, tape, or cutting to assist you, although there are now [...]

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