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Wanelo - Find unique products and stores you have never heard of. Lydia Hearst by Elias Wessel for Vixen Magazine Spring 2010. Photographer Elias Wessel offers a first look at the upcoming Vixen Magazine with his kaleidoscopic cover shoot that features an abundant amount of gems, sequins and greenery. Aided by stylist Storm Pedersen and art director Sophy Holland, Wessel creates a story of grandiose surrealism starring cover girl Lydia Hearst. Full Credits (include if re-posting): Photographer – Elias Wessel Model – Lydia Hearst @ Wilhelmina Models Stylist – Storm Pedersen Art Direction – Sophy Holland Hair – Charley Brown Make Up – Yadim Manicurist – Kris Kiss for Red Stylists Photo Assistant – Heinrich Zimmermann Styling Assistant – Adrian Diaz.

Fed by Birds: Best Wardrobe of All Time? My nomination is American dancer Ruth St Denis, whose fantastic costumes feature in page after page of pictures at NYPL. Whether minimalist: Or maximalist: On stage: Or as herself: See also: Recession CostumesHollar's Winter Costumes. Beauty « Pretty Indy. Preparedness 101, or One Survivalist's Manifesto.

The Ultimate Step-By-Step guide to creating your Urban Survival Plan After I’d been serious about preparedness and self reliance for a year or two, I realized that my buying, training, and planning had been based on whatever was the most exciting or urgent to me at the time. I’d go through a gun phase, then a food phase, then a natural medicine phase, but I didn’t have anything to tie it all together. I want to go over a few things that have acted as a compass for my personal preparedness planning. Yours should be unique to you, but feel free to use mine as a jumping off point to create your own. We’ll get into more nuts-and-bolts stuff tomorrow, but this is an important place to start so that you know that we’re on the same page. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

If all of your gear is at home and an earthquake buries it while you’re at the store, you’re going to have to improvise, adapt, and overcome. 9. 10. You can go to www.SurviveInPlace.com to sign up for the complete course right now. P.S. Cool Story. Are you prepared? Browse Documentaries | Top Documentary Films. Roommate Blocker 1.0. This will demonstrate how to convert a college dorm room double into two singles. For those who are unfamiliar with the term double, this refers to a single room occupied by two people. Whether you hate your roommate or just enjoy a quiet and isolated space to yourself this guide will explain all that is needed in order to split the room in half.

This project should be done at the beginning of the new school year. The duration of this project is completely dependent on how large of a wall you need. KEEP IN MIND, you will PROBABLY need to drill at least one hole into your wall. Do what you have to, to avoid making the holes too noticeable. Why: Your roommate smells. Everything seen in this guide can be found at lowes/home depot... The wall is also really sturdy, but I think I used the bare minimum in order to accomplish this. Cost: Without tools: $120,With tools: Roughly $50 This project will reduce noise by about 70% and eliminate all light... mostly.

Rue La La - Charles Jourdan. Home Decorating Fabric - Home Decorating Fabric. Designing and making my own clothes, patternmaking, patterndrafting, construction, and/or refashioning! 5 Amazing New Inventions (That Will Doom Humanity) Science is like heroin: It'll give you some of the best and worst times of your life, and occasionally they will be the exact same thing (sure, that body high is amazing, but you'll have to live with the shame of that indecent exposure arrest at the Red Robin for the rest of your life). Here are five inventions that will most likely revolutionize the modern way of life, right before they flush it down the toilet. A man named Jared Potter has recently developed a pair of flame drills that operate at temperatures of 3200 and 7200 degrees, respectively. That's hot enough to pretty well burn through anything, but rather than mounting them on the front of a spike-treaded tank and driving it into the UN to deliver his list of demands, Potter has instead opted to turn the fury of his psycho-drills on the very planet itself.

How This Will Change the World: "Just harvesting some fuel. " How This Will End The World: Take that, Physics, take it all! How This Will Change The World: "Damn. Goddammit! Pink Chalk Fabrics is your online source for modern quilting cottons and sewing patterns., Cloth, Pattern + Tool for Modern Sewists. IKEA.