How to do it | Mud stencils To avoid using toxic spray paint I found a way to make mud stencils. Materials: Mylar, X-Acto knife, tape, mud, sponge. 1.) Design your stencil. Draw your stencil the size you want it, or design it on a computer and print it. Make sure you do not have islands (parts of an image that will fall out if you cut around them, like the middle of an O.) 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) Sita Sings the Blues The Visual Dictionary - a visual exploration of words in the real world. ArtGroupsDFW Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos The Eggcorn Database » About The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six months earlier I had started a bilingual blog of my own. During the same period, I was working on my web site development and programming skills by learning a little Python and diving into the code of the WordPress blogging tool, which is written in PHP and interfaces with a MySQL Database. When I became more and more taken with the concept of eggcorns, which had been popping up on my favorite blogs, it occurred to me that it would be useful to collect them in a lexical database with a web interface for entering and retrieving records on individual eggcorns. After a number of rather pitiful attempts to create such a tool from scratch, I realized that it would be much easier to bend the WordPress blogging software to my needs. Chris Waigl
Quizzes | @Issue Journal of Business & Design In the early 1980’s, psychologist William Cain conducted a study with students at Yale University to see if they could identify 80 common products just by their scent. Here are the top 20 recognizable odors. See if you can arrange them according to immediately recognizable to least. (See answers at end of article.) Read More » In the age of electronic communications, audio branding has become part of the product experience. The answers are listed below. Read More » Even in the sophisticated fashion industry, companies occasionally adopt animals as brand mascots and feature them in their logos. The flag gate, above, was created for the 1876 American Centennial, and is now housed in the American Folk Art Museum in New York. In honor of America’s Independence Day, also know as the Fourth of July, we have created a brief quiz to test your knowledge of Stars & Stripes history. 1. 2. a. 13 stars and 13 stripes b. 15 stars and 13 Stripes c. 15 stars and 15 stripes d. 18 stars and 13 stripes 3. 4.