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Cool “2013 Snake” painted with a single brush stroke!

The top picture shown here is painted with a SINGLE BRUSH stroke! How awesome is that?!?

Watch the video to see it actually happen (the video is 2 minutes, 19 seconds).

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This is the (nearly) final picture as the artists brings the single, long brush-stroke to it’s conclusion…

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He prepares the brush with two types of paint (one might be an ink of some sort)…

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Then he starts on the left side of a blank sheet of paper, begins with the tongue, and paints a single stroke to end up with the snake above!

- Original Page on Make -

Tags: Multimedia, Reference, Make, Weird, Virtual, Art / Visual, Just Cool, General by Jai
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Now THAT is a LOT of CUBES!

The pictures below are all part of a large mural done entirely in Rubic’s Cubes by Toranto based Cubeworks Studio.

The mural, which is just outside of Hong Kong, uses more than 85,000 cubes and is 13 feet high by 200 feet long!

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Here’s a kind of a side view that shows how long this thing is - keep in mind, it’s 13 feet tall too!

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Here’s a shot of a guy presumably working on part of the mural.

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And finally, here’s a wide shot (that STILL doesn’t show the whole thing!) to give better idea of scale.

- Original Article on Make -

Tags: Reference, Real World, Make, Current Events, Just Cool, Geek Stuff, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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Proof that Humans Are Capable of Working Magic…

This comic isn’t the kind of thing I usually share, but it struck an awesome cord with me (and is based on a quote by Carl Sagan!), so I wanted to share.

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RIP, Carl, for Billions and Billions of years…

-The Comic (an episode of the ZenPencils comic) -

Tags: Collections, Reference, Geek, Just Cool, Art / Visual, Geek Stuff, Cool Sites, Life Tips, General by Jai
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[Make] Change PVC to a better color for your projects!

This is a slightly unusual post for this blog, but it was such a great article that I wanted to share. To be honest, I might like to start adding in more MAKE kinds of articles anyway.

If you use PVC for any of your DIY projects, this could be very useful - this (simple) technique allows you to permanently change the color of any PVC. Unlike painting, there’s nothing to flake / scrape off!

Plus, the colors look GREAT!

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This is what the final colors look like - they have a very “fun” look to them!

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Another view of the colors in use (hey, it’s a post on changing the color of PVC, what pictures am I SUPPOSED to post?!?).

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Here’s a picture of the technique in process. Note that the can of “dye” shown here is actually a combination of the solvent and the dye mixed in the original solvent can.

-Source Article on MakeZine -

Tags: Make, Reference, Just Cool, Art / Visual by Jai
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Finally, a FULL Graphing / Charting app (For Free!)

We’ve reviewed several flow-charting / diagramming apps, mostly web-based.

They’ve all had limitations, but what can you expect for free, right?

It turns out that you can expect a solid and professional diagramming app.

yEd is the app in question.

It’s a full-scale application designed to demonstrate what you can do in your own applications using the companies commercial libraries.

In many ways, it rivals Visio!

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Here are several (though by no means all!) of the example diagrams that come with it to show what you can do…

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Here’s a full-screen view of the Mac version just to show what the app looks like, it’s pretty standard stuff, but very well put together (Note: It’s also available for Windows and Linux).

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This is a view of the same diagram as the one in the full screen-shot. All I did was switch from the Organic layout to the Orthogonal (Compact) layout (there are several other options too!)

-Download from yWorks.com -

(For Windows, Mac, and Linux )

Tags: Reference, Make, Geek, Gadgets, Art / Visual, Geek Stuff, Software, General by Jai
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[Language] A topic near and dear to my heart (or at least the Wernecke’s area of my brain)

I’m kind of a linguistic’s fan. I can’t say “expert”, since I can barely speak my own native language, but that’s beside the point. Languages interest me!

When discussing languages, someone usually asks which languages are “hard” and which ones are “easy” to learn.

Voxy.com, a language learning site, has published an infographic to help answer that question.

Take a look!

110329 VOXY HARDLANGUAGES FINAL WIDE png 860×3 034 pixels This is a list of (some of) the languages that are easiest for English speakers to learn…

110329 VOXY HARDLANGUAGES FINAL WIDE png 860×3 034 pixels 1 These languages, and languages similar to these are kind of “middle of the road” in terms of difficulty for English learners…

110329 VOXY HARDLANGUAGES FINAL WIDE png 860×3 034 pixels 2 And these languages (and their piers) are the most difficult for English speakers to learn from ground zero.

- Original InfoGraphic on Voxy.com -

Tags: Reference, Science, Art / Visual, Geek Stuff, General by Jai
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Maximum color print resolution? Challenge accepted!

The picture below may not look like much, but you have to realize, it’s been really, really enlarged!

The original image is only 50 microns across. This means that you could fit over 250,000 copies in the space of one square inch!

It was printed using a new technique that allows the absolute highest possible color resolution; if you try to make the dots any smaller, they’re below the wavelength of the colors of the reflected light!

$Full colour image printing and resolution test patterns Printing colour at the optical diffraction limit Nature Nanotechnology Nature Publishing Group$
You could fit about 100 copies of this thing in a square the size of an average amoeba (the “well known” variety of amoeba; amoeba proteus)!

- Original Article on Nature.com -

Tags: Current Events, Weird, Reference, Just Cool, Science, Geek Stuff, Art / Visual, General by Jai
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Make cool stuff out of paper!

Tektonten.com is a site devoted to the craft of… Well… Papercraft.

There are a LOT of models on this site, and it’s updated regularly.

Look through the models, if you like any, download, print, and built your own!

Some people even glue them to plasticard or foamcore for a more durable model!

See below for some examples that can be seen on the site.

Tomb Raider Triangle of Light Papercraft

Tomb Raider “Triangles of Light”

A cool dice roller thingy.

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Some dice to roll in the cool dice roller thingy.

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Models for Miniatures Games.

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Even some full-sized stuff (or… Uh… Larger)!

- Tektonten.com -

Tags: Gadgets, Virtual, Collections, Reference, Art / Visual, Gaming, Geek Stuff, HowTo, Cool Sites, General by Jai
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Awesome Text-Thingy Posters for Book Lovers!

These posters have the double cool effect of 1) having an awesome, classic book (in it’s entirety!) printed on them, and 2) shaping the words into a scene that represents the book itself!

There are four to choose from with pictures of all four below.

Share and Enjoy!

ThinkGeek Postertext Novels On A Wall