GeekMom - Smart. Savvy. Social. GeekMom Smart. Savvy. Social. Jorge Macedo Photography – Thailand – Nakhon Pathom – Wat Sampran This is a very unique temple near the famous Sampran Crocodile Farm and Zoo, as usual it lacks maintenance but still a very impressive building. About three years ago I went to this temple for the first time and it seemed “kind of” abandoned and people said it was due to its bad reputation and then I found this from the Thai Newspaper “The Nation”: “The Supreme Court Thursday upheld the lower court’s ruling handing a 50year imprisonment term to a former Buddhist abbot of Nakhon Pathom’s Wat Sampran, on charges of raping and molesting nine hilltribe girls under the age of 15. Chamlong Polseu, 65, once a popular spiritual leader known by his clerical name Phra Pawana Phuttho, was sentenced to 160 years in prison for raping and molesting underage girls, reduced to 50 years due to Thai legal limits. I went there again in October 2010 by the end of the buddhist lent and I was positively surprised by seeing people performing Thai ritual dances and performing merit cerimonies. Comments
Hack Apart a Highlighter to Create UV-Reactive Flowers [Science] - How-To Geek ETC College students have long been hacking apart highlighters to create glowing bottles of booze to line their dorm room walls. Far more interesting, however, is the application of the hack to flowers. Many of you may remember a science class experiment from years gone by where in you put food coloring in a beaker and then some freshly cut white flowers; returning to the experiment a day later yielded flowers colored to match the dye you added. Woollen Woods » Canopy The Woollen Woods is an enchanting outdoor art installation, created as part of Eden Arts’ CANOPY project. The exhibit features hundreds of woodland themed woollen artworks; all made using 100% wool, in support of ‘The Campaign for Wool’. In 2013 the public were invited to make artworks for the first installation at National Trust property Acorn Bank.
DIY Sharpie Tie Die I love this Sharpie tie die DIY from The Art Girl Jackie blog! She did it with her adorable daughter and I think it’s a fun inspiration for this Spring and upcoming music festival season. Use this technique to spruce up your ratty t-shirts or maybe a pair of of cut off shorts. Easy Silkscreen Steps for Unique Fabric Art - Quilting Daily - Quilting Daily I've been playing with screen printing for fiber art a lot lately, in preparation for a surprise the Quilting Arts team has in store for you. (Trust me, you will love it.) What I've learned is, the more you do screen printing, the easier it is to transition from one type to another. One might actually become obsessed with combining screen printing and textile art.
Joseph Wu Origami home > diagrams > download For the PDF files, you will need Adobe's Acrobat Reader. These diagrams are sorted by the designer of the model. In the description is also a ranking of the model's difficulty. In Five Minutes Brooklyn / Kansas City / Louisville / Columbus / Pittsburgh The Write, Right When You Get There Tour asks visual artists and writers to combine their thoughts on memory, permanence and nostalgia to create a unique traveling exhibition.
Origami Diagrams Folding Help: How to Divide a square or rectangle into 3rds, 5ths or 7ths is here. How to cut a Pentagon from a square is here. How to fold a Stretched Bird Base is here. Paper Money - download a 4x10 inch oversized bill (front and back) for demonstrating money folding to a group. Print it out on light green paper for added realism. Memento Mori: How Victorian Mourning Photography Immortalised Loved Ones After Death (PICTURES) The advent of photography in the Victoria era provided an important new way for the bereaved to remember their dead. In many cases, poverty stood squarely in the way of obtaining expensive painted portraits capturing loved ones in the prime of their lives. Hence cheaper photography sessions began to grow in popularity – especially among bereaved families, whom in many cases, were finally able to obtain the only image they had of the deceased. The corpse of a man is propped up and he is given a life-like expression for this photograph
Crocheted R2D2 Earflap Hat {Pattern} Materials/Tools: - 5.5mm crochet hook - Worsted weight yarn in Blue, Grey, and small amounts of Black and Red. (I used Red Heart SuperSaver in "light grey" and "blue", you will have enough yarn from a 364yard skein for at least 3 hats) - Using standard North American terms, you need to know how to make a "magic ring", a sc (single crochet), a hdc (half double crochet), increase, decrease, sl st (slip stitch), how to change colours by pulling through your last stitch with the new colour, and how to crochet over the string of the colour you're not using so you can carry it with you until the next colour switch (this makes it look really clean and seamless inside) Fits 1 to 4 years (to my knowledge - I only tried it on Logan and Ella, but it does not fit myself) Main Part of Hat: Round 1: With blue, start with the magic ring & make 6 hdc into the ring, pull tail tightly to close. Add braided tie strings consisting of 3 grey and 3 blue strands of yarn 18" long, to the tips of the earflaps.