How To: Pronounce the English word "aesthetic"
Today's word is "aesthetic". This is both a noun and an adjective. As an adjective, it means relating to a sense of beauty.
Today's word is "aesthetic". This is both a noun and an adjective. As an adjective, it means relating to a sense of beauty.
Benny Benassi is one of the biggest names in mainstream house music, and his distinctive synth sounds can be heard at clubs the world over. In this video you'll learn how to emulate one of his signature effects using Reason 4.
One of the most distinctive parts of the anime-style characters that most cosplayer prefer is the spiky, multicolored anime hair. Most people need a wig to execute one of these styles in real life, and this video will show you how to do it! The example in the video is a wig for Gokudera from the manga Reborn!, but these lessons can be applied to lots of other anime wig styles.
Dubstep is the music of the moment in the global underground electronic music scene, and producers from all types of music are incorporating it into their tracks. One of it's distinctive features is the "wub wub" style of bass track that dubstep producers favor, and it can improve all kinds of songs. This video will show you how to get a really good "wub wub" bass effect in FL Studio for use in all your Dubstep and fusion tracks.
The ring of lights on the front of the XBox 360 console is one of its most distinctive features, but almost everyone has the same old green LED's. I say almost because it is possible to install a custom RoL board in your console that can have any color of lights you want! This video will show you how to install a custom RoL board after you've ordered one of eBay or some other outlet.
X-Ray vision is one of the most memorable of Superman's many distinctive powers (he was so unfairly strong wasn't he?) and one that would be very useful to modern spies and voyeurs. This video will show you how to create an X-Ray vision special effect for your movie using After Effects. Whether your characters are looking into a girls' locker room or a secret Soviet meeting, the effect at least will be very cool.
This image editing software tutorial teaches you how to remove fringe left over from masking on a monster image in Photoshop CS3. Discover three distinctive ways to remove the ugly fringe that can ruin any good masking project. These Photoshop techniques are specially designed for working with detailed hair (like a monsther!), in Photoshop masking projects.
One of the most traditional foods that one can enjoy at a Guy Fawkes Night celebration is the Lancashire Parkin. It's a relative of gingerbread made with treacle (molasses) and oatmeal to give it a distinctive color and flavor. Watch this video to learn how to make a Lancashire Parkin from an old British gran named Hilda.
Harley Quinn is the Joker's love interest first introduced in Batman: Arkham Asylum. She is delightfully deranged, just like her boss / lover, and also quite sexy. Watch this video for a tutorial on doing her distinctive mask makeup for your Halloween or general purpose costume.
Pucca is an adorable Japanese girl whose always chasing after her true - but reluctant - love, Garu, in her Pucca comics and on zillions of branded accessories. Her distinctive two side buns and upturned eyes make her an easy character to love, and lots of young girls enjoy reading about her adventures in love.
This tutorial will show you how to make a rocket ship using the ancient Japanese art form of origami. It's a rather complicated process for beginners, and it's a good idea to work your way up to this project by first making origami shapes that involve similar folds, such as the crane and the water balloon. But once you've mastered the steps in this tutorial, you'll be able to make a very unusual and distinctive origami design.
Monarch butterflies are one of nature's beautiful aesthetic pleasures, with gorgeous, intricate orange-yellow wings punctuated with black art deco motifs and coils.
The hidden blade from Assassin' Creed is a super fun weapon to use, and Ezio a very distinctive and cool idea for a Halloween costume. IF you've come to the same conclusions, watch this video to learn how to make a DIY working hidden blade out of Knex that will not get you arrested, hopefully.
You want to talk about a real throwback for a dessert? It's rum pineapple upside-down cake.
Make truly distinctive and exciting text in your Adobe Photoshop images with this Ice Effect.
The bleach bypass effect is a classic, and is large part of what gave Saving Private Ryan it's distinctive look. This video will teach you how to apply bleach bypass yourself using Adobe Premiere Pro. Give your video that old-school look using the most modern of technologies.
This Simon Leach video features him demonstrating to potters everywhere how to sieve a white slip that he will use later to adorn some clay vases that he has thrown previously. Slips can really make your pots distinctive, but be subtle! You don't want them to take attention away from the flower that the pots are for.
The "Four in hand" is the most well known and commonly worn knot in the western world. The "Four-in-hand" knot has its name from the drivers of the four-in-hand carriage in the mid-1800's, who tied their scarves and the reigns of their carriage with this knot.
Mushrooms are quite whimsical, cute fungi. Whether they're the ones you pick in clusters to eat or the animated, cartoonish ones you see adorning Sanrio notecards, they're very chubby and that chubbiness affords a great cute aesthetic value.
If you've been working on a LEGO battle scene and need a gnarly chainsaw to complete the esthetic, watch this video. It will teach you how to make in improbably large but really cool custom chainsaw out of spare LEGO bricks.
The key to a good steampunk paint job is getting the distressted metallic look just right. This tutorial shows you how to add a lot of aesthetic appeal to your next steampunk prop mod, whether it's goggles, binoculars or something entirely different.
The modern, sleek aesthetic is so overrated. If you're an arts and crafts aficionado, you know that adding vintage and old world touches to your craftmaking creates results that are whimsical and beautifully antique.
MAKE zine aims to bring the DIY aesthetic and mindset to all the technology in your life. They want you to break open things and put them back together in a better way. In this video, MAKE and KipKay show you how to build a plexiglass drawer organizer so you'll be able to find your stuff in a pinch. This isn't a project for novice crafters, but the steps here aren't hard to follow.
MAKE zine aims to bring the DIY aesthetic and mindset to all the technology in your life. They want you to break open things and put them back together in a better way. In this video, MAKE and KipKay show you how to build a lost screw finder attachment. It'll help you find any screw, including plastic ones that a magnet would not be able to pick up.
How to make that cardboard hood to assist you in making your own custom bokeh when shooting images.
Porphyra umbilical. Most know it as laver, a type of edible seaweed found along the Wales coastline, and also other areas in the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia. Porphyra umbilical is best known for the Welsh delicacy of laverbread.
Are you a regular backpack user? Do you tire of that generic Jansport look that seems to be all your low backpack-budget will buy you? Do you want to rock something a bit more distinctive without breaking the bank? Do you like duct tape? Then look no further! This 2-part video provides wonderfully detailed instructions for making a full-sized backpack out of only 45 yards of duct tape! A must for the DIY-happy student-about-town.
Can any activity be more charming and whimsical than flying a kite? Ever since we saw the kite flying scene in "Mary Poppins," we've always had a distinctive, old timey attraction to the park hobby. And thankfully, you don't actually need to purchase a kite to fly a kite. All you need is some paper and string.
Make your text distinctive and exciting with Photoshop text effects- learn how to make your words appear to be on fire.
If you love topping your bagel with cream cheese, then try it on your favorite cake! Combined with sugar and a few simple ingredients, cream cheese becomes a distinctive and delicious frosting. After your frosting is mixed, it is ready to use immediately. Or, you can put it in an air-tight container and store it in the refrigerator for up to a week, or in the freezer for up to three months.
In this video you will see how to sketch a picture of a rose using a pencil. You will start from the but and work your way outward adding petals. Each line is shown slowly so that it is easy to recreate what is being drawn. This is a basic rose that you can vary to your own esthetic because just like no two flowers re the same neither are two flower sketches.
This video is an instructional tutorial on how to make thermal curtains. Thermal curtains are a low cost method of reducing your heating bill by increasing the R value of your windows with an aesthetic, insulative curtain. Watch and learn how easy it is to keep the cold out and the warmth in with homemade thermal curtains.
Scientists of the University of Twente in the Netherlands won a prestigious place in the 'Hall of Fame' of videos about fluid-in-motion. They have made a video of leaping shampoo, in which they explain the so-called Kaye effect. Scientifically interesting, but also of great aesthetic beauty! Get out your shampoo and try it yourself.
In this lesson, learn how to selectively maintain the original color aspects in a portion of an image while making the remainder of the image grayscale for an added aesthetic effect.
Guy Fawkes Day is one of the biggest holidays in the UK, functioning as sort of a combination of the 4th of July and Halloween. One of it's distinctive elements is traditional masks like the one Guy Fawkes supposedly wore (also worn by V in V For Vendetta). If you want to get into the spirit of the holiday for Halloween or actual Guy Fawkes Day (Nov. 5), watch this video to learn how to apply a sexy Guy Fawkes mask makeup look.
Tattoo lady and reality TV star Kat Von D is obviously extremely talented with the tattoo needle. Creating interesting designs for clients that include celebrities, Kat Von D exudes a distinctive style that includes looking like a tougher version of a classic pin up.
Woks are good for more than just tossing Friday night's chow mien with beef and broccoli. In fact, you can use a wok to impart a deep and delicious flavor into foods through smoking. But how exactly do you smoke foods using a wok? Watch this video from CHOW to find out.
If you've been looking for a sexy contemporary video game character to cosplay or dress as for Halloween, consider Altair from Assassin's Creed. He's sexy, distinctive, and armed with this video you'll be well on your way to having sewed the costume yourself. Specifically, this video will teach you how to sew Altair's hood quickly and easily.
The eyes of characters in Japanese manga tend to have a very distinctive look. They are large, childlike and shiny, with lots of little reflections. If you draw them right, they can look beautiful. But if you get them wrong, they'll just look bizarre. In this video, "Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley shows how to draw manga eyes, line by line.
Do you ever get overwhelmed with how many beautiful things are out there? Do you want to be able to alter your home's aesthetic with your mood or the season? A great solution for this is making your own pillows. In this tutorial sewing and fashion video, you can learn how to make petal pillows in a lush, feminine fabric. These marvelous pillows will make your apartment or couch look amazing.