Saw this posted over at PvPOnline.com. A wonderful and inspiring TED talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat, Pray, Love”, on nurturing creativity. Emphasis on keeping a positive outlook rather then languishing in self hatred when the creative magic isn’t consistent. If creativity is part of your job description, like it is for me, then [...]
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Over at Instructables, user Banjomaster, has created a cool HOWTO for creating a $16 fish eye lens using some particle board, duct-tap, a lens hood, and a security peephole for doors. The tutorial is branded as being for the Nikon D90, but looking at how he made it I can’t imagine it wouldn’t work for [...] Saw this over on Laughing Squid, terrible really, the unknown, and sadly incurable, phenomenon known as Duke Nukem Disease. Saw this over on BoingBoing, really cool project regarding kite photography. The below video is the Maker Profile from MAKE: Television, Episode 2. Kite Aerial Photography on MAKE: television from make magazine on Vimeo. Seems YouTube has put forth a contest for users to submit videos that are actually watchable. YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video Joe Alterio created a charitable effort of drawing Robots and Monsters for $50 with most of the fee going to a charitable organization. $50 gets you the original work of art created by either Joe Alterio or one of the other talented artists he’s enlisted who help out in their spare time. The charity as of [...] Here’s something which falls into the category of “Rad!”, software that’s being developed at the University of Toronto, called “ILoveSketch”, allows you to sketch on a touch screen in 3D. If you can follow along and understand the linguistic cavalcade of terms then more power to you. I just want to try it out and [...]
“The TED Prize, an initiative of the TED Conference granting recipients one world changing wish – is asking bloggers around the world to help in making photojournalist and 2007 Prize winner James Nachtwey’s wish come true this Friday, October 3. Nachtwey wished for help in breaking a news story in a way that demonstrates [...] Last Saturday I went with a friend down to Castle Fest, which was held on the grounds of an old castle, located in Lisse, which is just out side of Leiden…in Holland…right, click [here] for a map. Castle Fest is an annual, weekend event celebrating Lughnassadh (the first harvest festival of the year) as well as [...] Just saw this over on Laughing Squid. A artist by the name Paul “Moose” Curtis utilizes a technique called “reverse graffiti” where he creates cut outs, holds them up on dirty walls and uses jets of water to create a contrasting clean picture against a dirty canvas. In the below video he creates a mural as [...] |
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