How To make a Rockabilly Batman Leather-Mask
Vor ein paar Tagen hatte ich ein Rockabilly Batman Cosplay gebloggt und jetzt treten zu Halloween die Gotham City Rockers auf, in selbstgemachten Rockabilly Batman-Kostümen. Auf Imgur gibt’s ne kleine Anleitung. (via Boing Boing)
P. Craig Russells Guide to Graphic Storytelling
Vimeo Direktcomics,via Forbidden Planet
P. Craig Russell, tausendmal preisgekrönter Comic-Autor und -Zeichner (u.a. Coraline, Sandman, Dr. Strange, Conan, Hellboy, Fables) hat vier superinteressante Ausschnitte aus seiner per Kickstarter finanzierten DVD „P. Craig Russells Guide to Graphic Storytelling“ online gestellt. Im Video oben erklärt er anhand der ersten Seite seiner Adaption von Oscar Wildes Salomé-Umsetzung wie man eine Story geschickt eröffnet, es gibt noch zwei weitere Clips mit Seiten aus Clive Barkers Human Remains und Debussys Pelléas and Mélisande.
Ein zweiter Teil des Guides to Graphic Storytelling ist bereits über Kickstarter (über)finanziert, weitere dürften Folgen. Tolles Projekt!
A graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in painting, P. Craig Russell has run the gamut in comics. After establishing a name for himself at Marvel on KILLRAVEN and DR. STRANGE, he went on to become one of the pioneers in opening new vistas for this underestimated field with, among other works, adaptations of operas by Mozart (THE MAGIC FLUTE), Strauss (SALOME) and Wagner (THE RING OF THE NIBELUNG).
P. CRAIG RUSSELL’S GUIDE TO GRAPHIC STORYTELLING features the acclaimed creator teaching the art of graphic storytelling, also known as “Comics.” Lessons include how to properly introduce your story, how to establish and visualize the emotional dynamics of your characters, the introduction of characters, the introduction and use of props, effective page composition, the use of parallel narrative and more.
How To make a bioluminescent Lightbulb from dead Squid
Tolles Tutorial auf Instructables für die Zucht von Bakterien, die auf Oktopussen wachsen und mit denen man biolumineszierende Glühbirnen bauen kann. Mein Traumhaus ist durchzogen von einem Aquarium-Röhrensystem (das man niemals saubermachen muss) und wird beleuchtet von Bakterien und lebenden Energiesparlampen. Es gab vor ‘nem halben Jahr eine Designstudie eines Elektronikherstellers nach demselben Prinzip und das kann man sich jetzt nachbasteln.
This instructable will show you how to grow and culture your own glowing bacteria […] from fresh sea fish (squid work well) and culture it onto special agar gel that you can make at home or simply buy ready-to-pour. The gel can be formed inside all kinds of things that you want to make glow a cool greenish/blue color!
The glowing vibrio bacteria are marine life forms that live alone or in a symbiotic relationships with fish and squid inside their light organs or as parastites. Alone the bacteria don’t really glow but in groups of large enough number something amazing happens called quorum sensing. The bacteria upon realizing they have enough of each other around turn on genes that allow them to GLOW! The light that is emitted is super efficient around 98 % meaning that only 2 % is lost through heat, thus the light is cool and that’s very COOL.
Chocolate Brains from 3D-printed MRI-Data
Andy Millns hat aus den Daten eines MRI-Scans seines Brains eine Gussform für Schoki drucken lassen und sein eigenes Gehirn gegessen. Das Hirn hätten sie zwar auch direkt mit Schokolade drucken können (gibt’s, hatte ich hier schonmal vor einer Weile), aber wer will bei ‘nem Schoki-Brain aus MRI-Daten schon rummeckern!
Andy Millns had his brain MRI scanned as part of a research project and we managed to sneak a copy.
The main steps involved are:
- Converting sliced DICOM data into the STL file format (a 3D geometry format widely used for 3D printing)
- Editing that model to clean up
- 3D printing a solid model
- Producing a latex mould
- Finally casting the chocolate and eating
How to make a Terrarium Christmas Ornament
Inhabitat erklärt, wie man Terrarien-Weihnachtsbaumkugeln bastelt: DIY: How to Make a Terrarium Christmas Ornament! (via Miss Cakehead)
How To make Spiral Cut Hot Dogs
Instructables-User Dreamberry erklärt, wie man Spiralhotdogs macht: Spiral Cut Hot Dogs, Double Spiral Hot Dogs. (via Laughing Squid)
You need:
dogs of your choosing
fave dog slicin’ knife
long drill bit, (or round skewer if you have things like that)Carefully push drill directly down the center of the hot dog.
Keep the knife at the same angle as you slice thru to the drill bit, and roll the hot dog away from you as you continue down the length of the dog.
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HowTo make a Skateboard-Table
(Youtube Direktsk8, via Boing Boing)
Vor einer ganzen Weile hatte ich über einen Wohnzimmertisch gebloggt, desses Glasplatte auf den Rollen von Skateboards rotierte (Link finde ich grade nicht), jetzt hat Instructables-User Wilgubeast eine Anleitung gepostet, wie man sich so ein Teil für unter 100$ selber basteln kann: „Think of the possibilities: Play board games where nobody has to look at the board upside-down. Bring the remote within reach without getting up from the couch. Epic tea parties.“
Bookmarks for Juli 4th: Downhill Skateboarding, Stickers, Portal 2 Cosplay
YouTube – Downhill Skateboarding: 2011 Santa Barbara Slide Jam
Terrific documentary on Rough Trade Records
Kutiman by Kutiman on SoundCloud: „my first album from 2007“
After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet | Popular Science: Humanity may have millennia to find a new home in the universe–or just a few years
All kinds of stickers! – a set on Flickr: Bumper stickers, Hallmark stickers, promo stickers of all kinds. Mostly vintage stuff from the 70's and 80's, though I have a fair selection that's more recent.
Awesome Portal 2 Cosplay
3D display using a kinect – Hack a Day
How To Make a Tornado of Fire Out of Household Items
WARBIRDS OF MARS by Doc and Kane: A thrilling, neo-pulp/noir SciFi Webcomic
Hobo Lobo of Hamelin: A wonderfully crafted and designed illustrated book for the digital age.
TARDIS: Time and Relative Dimension in Soap
Springfield Punx: Doctor Who (Tennant) Wallpaper
atelier ted noten: lady killer vol. 1 for laikingland: poking a sturdy robotic finger in the face of conformity is 'lady killer vol.1', an unconventional jewelry box by atelier ted notenin collaboration with laikingland.
John Houck | iGNANT: Mittels selbst geschriebener Software generiert John Houck die höchst mögliche Anzahl an Kombinationen eines rasterförmigen Musters und druckt dies als Kontaktabzug auf Fotopapier. Dem Moment des mathematischen Konstruierens folgt der physische Eingriff. Immer und immer wieder werden dem Blatt Falten zugefügt, um es dann abzufotografieren, zu falten, abzufotografieren. Als Resultat offenbart sich der deutliche Verweis zu den Grundlagen der digitalen Fotografie: Eine von Fehlern durchsetzte Rastergrafik.
Norvig vs. Chomsky and the Fight for the Future of AI | Tor.com: Recently, Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Research and co-author of the most popular artificial intelligence textbook in the world, wrote a webpage extensively criticizing Noam Chomsky. Their disagreement points to a revolution in artificial intelligence that, like many revolutions, threatens to destroy as much as it improves. Chomsky, one of the old guard, wishes for an elegant theory of intelligence and language that looks past human fallibility to try to see simple structure underneath. Norvig, meanwhile, represents the new philosophy: truth by statistics, and simplicity be damned. Disillusioned with simple models, or even Chomsky’s relatively complex models, Norvig has of late been arguing that with enough data, attempting to fit any simple model at all is pointless. The disagreement between the two men points to how the rise of the Internet poses the same challenge to artificial intelligence that it has to human intelligence: why learn anything when you can look it up?
How to make Saurons Evil Eye Eggs
Super Rezept für Halloween: Forkable hat eine Anleitung für Eier, die wie Saurons Auge aussehen: The Evil Eye: Deviled Eggs. (via Wonderhowto)
How to yell like Tarzan
Ich habe mir neulich in einem Anfall von Nostalgie alle ollen Tarzan-Filme mit Johnny Weissmuller besorgt und bin grade dabei, die wegzugucken und in diesem Posting auf The Art of Manliness versteckt sich am Ende ein echtes Juwel: die Original-Anleitung für den Tarzan-Schrei™ „as written in Edgar Rice Burrough’s rejected trademark application for the Tarzan Yell“.
The mark consists of the sound of the famous Tarzan yell. The mark is a yell consisting of a series of approximately ten sounds, alternating between the chest and falsetto registers of the voice, as follows -
1. a semi-long sound in the chest register,
2. a short sound up an interval of one octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound,
3. a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
4. a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
5. a long sound down one octave plus a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
6. a short sound up one octave from the preceding sound,
7. a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
8. a short sound down a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
9. a short sound up a Major 3rd from the preceding sound,
10. a long sound down an octave plus a fifth from the preceding sound.
Tarzan Skills: How to Swim, Dive, Climb, and Swing Like the Lord of the Apes (via Neatorama)
Making Of the AT-AT-Afternoon
(Youtube Direkt, via /Film)
Vor einer Woche hatte ich Patrick Boivins letzten Kurzfilm AT-AT Afternoon gebloggt, jetzt hat er dieses Making Of dazu rausgehauen. Ist alles gar nicht so aufwändig, wie man denkt.
Chase Jarvis complete Photography-Workflow
(Youtube Direktchase, via Gizmodo)
Fotograf Chase Jarvis hat seinen kompletten digitalen Workflow in ein superunterhaltsames Video gepackt und ein umfassendes Blogposting dazu online gestellt. Für jeden, der sich auch nur halbwegs für Fotografie interessiert, ein Must-Watch/Read.
This video covers all the ins and outs, the theory and the details of our complete photo and video workflow from capture to archive and everything in between. So whether you’re a seasoned pro, an aspiring amateur, or just starting out in photography or video we’ve worked hard to make this worth your time.
While there is no “right” digital workflow, ours has been shaped in the professional environment over the past 10 years. More importantly the techniques we use, the gear, the methodology, everything discussed herein been time tested and entirely scalable depending on budget, experience and where you’re at personally in photography and video, wheter you’ve got millions of images or just hundreds. Ultimately, this is a template, a summary of our experience piled into one video and one blog post.
Chase Jarvis TECH: Complete Workflow and Backup for Photo + Video
Laser Monocle
Und noch ein Instructable hinterher: Dieser Herr hat sich einen Laserpointer in Form eines Steampunk-Monokels gebaut: Laser Monocle Headpiece. (via Technabob)
Minidoku: Cut’n'Paste (oder: How to make a Fanzine)
(Vimeo Direktzine, via Make)
Schöne Minidoku darüber, wie man Fanzines bastelt. Habe ich ja auch jahrelang gemacht, tausende Quadratkilometer totes Holz verbraucht (für eine sensationelle Auflage von so 100 Stück) und dann irgendwann später festgestellt, dass man das im Internetz viel einfacher und billiger und schneller und besser machen kann.
Cut&Paste is a ten-minute documentary exploring the process of zine-making both directly through the filmmakers personal experiences of making a zine and then releasing it into the wild, and via the voices and work of other Boston zinesters. The result reveals intimately how and why these independent publications are made.
Auf Instructables gibt’s noch eine schöne Anleitung dazu: Guide To Zine Making.
The world of Zine making is a largely underground. Zines are a perfect way to express ideas or feelings that are not fit for the main stream due to their personal content or unpopular ideas. Zines are the fastest way for writers and artists to produce self published works.
This guide seeks to give aspiring Zinesters not only tips to produce their first zine but gives some background on zine culture and how to get their zines out into the world.
(Apropos Zines: Mein Comicdealer hat grade ein kleines Interview mit Alan Moore zur dritten Ausgabe seines Underground-Mags Dodgem Logic gepostet.)
Overcoming Creative Block
Scott Hansen hat 25 Designer und Künstler gefragt, was sie machen, falls die Ideen nicht kommen wollen, wenn man kreativ sein muss. Erik Spiekermann fasst das alles wohl am besten zusammen und vor allem die Punkte 5 und 6 davon halte ich für essentiell:
There are 6 strategies for this situation:
1. Avoid
Do something else, wash the car, back-up your data, do errands…
2. Think
Sit back and think about the issue, just let your mind go…
3. Research
Look up stuff, go through your old projects, but avoid Google — it takes too long to find anything useful…
4. Collect
We all have lots of stuff; there must be something in there that is waiting to be used…
5. Sketch
Drawing is great, even if you have no talent. Just visualising the simplest things makes them come alive…
6. Deconstruct
Take the problem apart, look at the parts and then put them back together…
