If you're an urban bike rider, you're probably all too familiar with how hard it is to find a safe, convenient place to store the bike. This video offers one solution, constructing a bike rack on the ceiling in your apartment. It looks cool, and at least it won't get stolen this way.
If you're building an office model, or are looking to add a little something extra to a street model, you might give this great vending machine model a try! In this detailed video from brickboys518 you will get brief over view of the bricks that you will need for the model and then a great tutorial on the building process and build order.
People think that chickens are like garbage disposals but chickens don't eat everything: you don't want to feed them meat or dairy products; processed foods aren't good for their digestion.
It doesn't need to be Halloween to wear this pretty pin-up style Dorothy costume makeup. The demonstrator in this how-to video used: MAC Eyeshadow: Brule, MAC Eyeshadow: Saddle, Urban Decay Liquid Liner: Perversion, Too Face Lash Injection Mascara, MAC #3 Lashes, MAC Red Enriched Lip Liner, MAC Classic Dame Mattine Lipstick, Clear Gloss, and MAC Red Glitter. Check out this video makeup lesson and learn how to create this Dorothy from Wizard of Oz inspired makeup look.
This Cinderella inspired look consists of a soft wash of blue and a strong winged black liner. The cosmetics used for this look are Coastal Scents sparkle eye liner- light blue, AC pigment in Mutiny, Coastal Scents 88 Palette, Fyrinae Pure sugar for inner corner highlight, Urban Decay liquid liner: perversion, MAC #3 lash, mac bare slimshine, and mac Little VI lustreglass. Learn how to apply a Disney's Cinderella inspired princess look by watching this video makeup lesson.
Learn the how to booty dance and the basics of urban dance. Gain more confidence on the dance floor and learn to shake your ass like a true booty shaker. The Booty Basics says with a little instruction anyone can dance!
This intensely vibrant eye makeup look is a maybe too high drama for some, but just enough color for others. The cosmetic products used to create this look are Urban Decay Primer Potion, MAC Full Fuschia shadow base, Coastal Scents 88 Palette, Del false eyelashes, MAC Magenta lip liner, Heatherette Hollywood Nights lipstick, and MAC Funtabulous Dazzle Glass. Watch this video makeup application tutorial and learn how to create this shocking hot pink dramatic eye makeup look.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video apply eye shadow for a punk look. You will need
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply makeup for a Jennifer Lopez look. Products used in this video are a Leow-Cornell 3/8'' brush, 1/2'' Maxine's mop brushes, MAC 219 brush, Sephora 29 blending brush, Ardelle 134 falsies, DUO lash adhesive, and an eyelash curler. For the eyes use Urban Decay primer potion, MAC "fresh cement" shadestick, Revlon colorstay liquid eyeliner, Revlon colorstay pencil eyeliner, and a MAC "wheat" brow finisher.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply eye shadow for a Hayden Panettiere inspired look. Try a M.A.C base for this project and use an Urban Decay palette for the eye shadow color.
Watch this instructional cosmetics video to apply eye shadow for a back-to-school look inspired by Avril Lavigne. Use Urban Decay Primer Potion to keep your colors from fading or flaking off.
J. Peder Zane talks the fist bump. He's quite eloquent and well versed in the physics of the urban homie handshake. Forget high fives, this is the new hello.
Does tapping on the lid of a soda can before you open it really stop it from fizzing? Try tapping a shaken soda can at home with your finger. Watch this how to video to see if this urban legend is true or not.
A basic move in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. The V split or Double V requires you to do the V step with each foot in opposite directions.
A transition move used in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. Learn to transition from various moves into the Shuffle.
Learn the v snake, an advanced step used in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. This move is a combination of the snake step and the v stepback.
Learn the shuffle stomp or shuffle stick, an advanced step used in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance.
Learn the shuffle stepback, an advanced step used in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. This moves involves doing a shuffle and adding in a stepback.
Learn the Shuffle Hop a basic move in the C-Walk style of Hip-Hop and urban dance. The shuffle hop is essentially the Shuffle except you can you move in different directions.
Michelle Phan replicates the entire Lady Gaga Poker Face look: hair, accessories and makeup! You don't need the blonde wig or anything, they're just for fun. The gloves are sick though! Love them. This look is great for prom, clubbing and other glamorous occasions.
Want to record guitar? Learn from the professionals at PreSonus while host Bill Gibson shares his techniques for recording guitar with this instructional recording video. Discover the typical mic choice for recording an acoustic guitar and how to mic the speaker with this recording tutorial video. Record professional sounding audio quality of your music for your guitar by learning the various types of microphones to use.
In this video, we learn how to record audio in Ableton. When you are ready to record audio, you will need to first make sure everything is set up correctly. Check the audio input and output so you can choose the sources and configure them so they are correct. You will want to choose the level of input you have and find where the record and on buttons are. There will be a signal of the input when you are recording so you can see what the level of noise is while you are recording. As you monito...
Check out this instructional recording video that shows you how to mic a guitar. This installment focuses on guitar recording techniques, covering the basics of acoustic and electric guitar recording and some of the options you as an engineer have after the recording is done. Any recording has to start by getting it right at the source. When recording guitar, new strings are a must. Having the instrument set up properly so that it plays well in tune is also important. Once the guitar plays an...
This instructional recording video will show you how to record the acoustic guitar in mono, using 2 different microphones in 2 different positions. It also shows you a few simple steps on how to make a stereo signal from a mono recording. Record better sound quality and learn how to record the acoustic guitar with one microphone by watching this tutorial video.
Recording professional-sounding music at home is cheaper and easier than ever before, but still neither cheap nor easy compared to, say, grilled-cheese-sandwich-making. If you need some help getting started watch this video, which will teach you all about mics, cables, digital interfaces, and the other elements of the modern home recording studio.
You know those pretty twinkle light covers you can buy at Urban Outfitters or Home Goods? You can actually make them cheaply - i.e., with almost no money involved - at home.
Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, from GardenGirltv, brings us this step-by-step video about how to install what's called a drip irrigation system in her urban sustainable garden with this square foot gardening technique. She illustrates this process in a very detailed way, describing all the tools and various parts you will need to create an irrigation system for your garden that will allow you to save money and water, not to mention time spent watering each plant individually, for under $200.
Stephen Loidolt demonstrates block printing techniques in this how-to video. These methods can be adapted for use on either cloth or paper. Follow along with the steps in this video printmaking tutorial and learn how to make your own custom crafts.
Learn how you can apply makeup look inspired by Belle from Beauty and the Beast. This tutorial uses MAC cosmetics, Beauty from the Earth, Pur Minerals, Smashbox and Urban Decay. With this how to video you will be able to create this great Belle inspired, Disney princess makeup look.
This makeup tutorial video will show you how you can use makeup to make your eyeshadow into a Smokey Green look.
This is a tutorial video on how to apply a pink/purple eyeshadow look with makeup. Normally, I would apply Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion, but I didn't in this video.
Sometimes, every woman wants to look a alittle bit like a gold digger. This is a tutorial makeup video on how to apply a black and gold makeup look using mostly MAC products.
This weekend, take some time to escape from the business and stress of your daily grind. Make a hammock and lay around in it. Fit for a city and you can make it even without much knowledge of sewing machines.
See how Patti Moreno, the Garden Girl, uses vertical gardening in her Urban Sustainable Living Garden.
While neutral eye shadow colors flatter everyone and a tutorial for creating a neutral eye look will suit all eye shapes and colors, once you venture into more colorful options you'll get the best bang for your...eye color if you follow the color wheel.
Firstly, looking like modern screen siren Eva Mendes requires confidence. Lots of confidence. The stunner has posed nearly nude for Calvin Klein and doesn't flinch at wearing extremely form-fitting, low cut frocks at red carpet events. Plus, the girl loves having fun with her makeup.
If you told people you played folks songs even a decade or so ago, you could be sure that they would think you sat around outside a trailer park, a piece of hay stuck between your teeth and your fingers picking a banjo.
Andy Warhol once said that he was "deeply superficial." Though she's now popular fifty years later, Lady Gaga seems to take the artist's mantra in mind with every look she creates, whether she's hearkening Madonna or Minnie Mouse.
As you get older, your skin fluctuates along with hormonal changes. Whether you start incurring dryness, sun spots, or flaking, the way you do your makeup has to coordinate with your mature skin.
Kathryn from Life on the (Scrap)beach shows you how to make a mini butterfly inspired scrapbook album.
