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Thanks to Anda for teaching me how to fuse plastic bags and Federico for coming up with an awesome design.

 

Full instructions coming out on Friday at makezine.com/podcast

Put the lintel much higher than it needs to be.

Wonderful pictures of homemade dolls from 1960.

Não faça isto. Vai bagunçar sua casa toda, mesmo que você tente isolar tudo. Depois pintei umas com tinta sintética para metal e ficou bom sem tanta bangunça. Recomendam passar zarcão antes, mas eu não fiz e ficou legal.

Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in systems where oscillation happens in more than one direction, for example when a pendulum hanging from a string moves in the plane.

 

These pictures are from an easy persistence of vision approach to playing with Lissajous figures. Read more about this project here.

  

I was asked to make an Xbox controller Groom's cake for my friend Mikie's wedding reception. Here are the steps it took to make this cake a success.

 

STEP ONE: I baked two rectangular layers of milk chocolate cake, placed buttercream filling between the layers, and used a stencil I created on my computer to cut the cake into the correct shape.

Step 5:

Glue all together, and you'll get your complex paper sphere. ENJOY!

How to build your own screen for screenprinting for under $5. Tutorial here.

first page of the handout from my introduction to the internet on 10/12/93 (coincidentally, my 40th birthday), when I worked at the University Center at Tulsa (now OSU-Tulsa). The first site I accessed on the internet was NASA.

The iPhone is a simple, though powerful tool. It's ease of operation often belies the sophisticated mathematical and computer algorithms which undergird it's operations. The integrated movie and still camera is one of the iPhone's highlights, and Apple, Inc. makes every opportunity to improve the images the camera produces.

 

Quite honestly, the iPhone is perhaps my favorite creative imaging tool... as you may likely attest, if you've been following my photo stream for any time. There are very few things the iPhone can do that my Nikon DSLR cannot. There are a few features on the iPhone which the Nikon does not have, and vice versa. One is the Nikon's ability to create RAW images, whereas the iPhone creates only JPEG images. By the same token, the iPhone has a "Burst" mode, whereas the Nikon does not. And I've been able to obtain images with my iPhone that my Nikon could never get, such as bluebird hatchlings in their nest box.

 

The diminutive size of the iPhone belies it's strength, and the ubiquitous modern smartphone with integrated camera is now so commonplace that it's difficult - if not impossible - to find a smartphone without an integrated camera feature.

 

One would imagine that a software-driven camera such as the modern high-dollar DSLR is, would have more features incorporated into it than it does already. And yet, it appears that only Sony has taken such a matter under consideration and incorporated those numerous features into their α (Alpha) series mirrorless DSLR cameras.

 

Part of the beauty of any smartphone is the practical ease with which it enables or empowers us to communicate - with text, with images, and more.

 

Some note with a sense of frustration and consternation, that increasingly, smartphone manufacturers do not include operating instructions with their premiere products, and unfortunately, such is also the case with Apple. It's not that such instructions do not exist, but that those details are often hidden.

 

So while the ease of operations of the iPhone and other smartphone cameras have put photography within reach of almost everyone (remember, that was Kodak's goal with their "Brownie" and "Instamatic" model cameras of years gone by), it remains the case that not everyone knows how to obtain a good image using their smartphone.

 

And that was precisely the case which inspired me to create this image and to share it with you.

 

A long-time friend had posted some images which appeared quite blasé, and poorly created. I inquired about the tool he used to create them, to which he replied that he used iPhone, and made the images around dusky dark... the veritable "blue hour" or Twilight Zone.

 

Since possessing a powerful tool is no guarantee that one knows how to use it, I surmised what he had done, and created this image to assist and improve his efforts. He replied that my supposition was correct, which reinforced my desire to assist him.

 

Perhaps this may help you, too!

I made a similar project as a child...a heart-shaped sachet filled with potpourri. In this tutorial I make a little zipper-free pillowcase and fill it with lavender, but the project is easy to modify to suit your wishes.

 

Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in systems where oscillation happens in more than one direction, for example when a pendulum hanging from a string moves in the plane.

 

These pictures are from an easy persistence of vision approach to playing with Lissajous figures. Read more about this project here.

  

Pull the running stitch thread lightly, to close up the raw edges, as shown.

 

Thanks to Anda for teaching me how to fuse plastic bags and Federico for coming up with an awesome design.

 

Full instructions coming out on Friday at makezine.com/podcast

Materials for the Letters: assorted scraps of quilting cotton fabric, words to transfer, WonderUnder, iron, damp cloth, scissors, embroidery needle, embroidery thread, small embroidery hoop

 

Materials for the Banner: banner fabric (I used some Osnaburg), grommets/eyelets + kit, bamboo skewer, string to hang the banner with.

 

Here you can see how you overlap the blue points and the ends of the brown lines so there is no skip/duplicate in the pattern when adding repeats of blocks. The original "21" row and column are replaced by the first row/column of two other repeats.

Arrange the flower petals into an aesthetically pleasing look. you might need to use a spare needle to do so. I just used my fingers.

 

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