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Cows in slow (Sigur Ros & Mogwai - Luvstory) Chow Hon Lam on the Behance Network. 37 Ways to Tie a Scarf. Hello there!

37 Ways to Tie a Scarf

Welcome to The Knot Library. Are you ready to knot, twist, tie, tuck, loop, braid, fold, and fluff with Scarves Dot Net? We compiled over 50 (and counting!) Different ways to tie a scarf, so chances are we have a new knot or two for you! How to Use Scarves.net How does The Knot Library work, you ask? On the left-hand side of your screen, simply find the type of scarf you want to learn more about. If you would like to see all of Scarves Dot Net’s knots in one spot, check out The Master List. Need more help? My moleskine on the Behance Network. Inspiration Pad on the Behance Network.

How to Make a Baby. We made this video using a technique called "pixilation", which is a fancy term for stop-motion animation done with real people instead of puppets.

How to Make a Baby

We shot it, frame by frame, with Raquel's Canon DSLR over a period of nine months. Those of you who stopped by our house might have noticed some mysterious tape marks on the floor in the living room. Those were for the camera tripod and our feet. Animating over such a long period of time, using an increasingly pregnant woman as one of your puppets, means basically throwing out everything you might normally do in an animated film. For example, early on, we had this idea that we should wear the same clothes every time, for continuity's sake. What emerged was a style you might call WYGIWYG: What You Get Is What You Get. This scattershot approach turned out to have a nice side effect: the 360 or so frames of raw footage had hundreds of possible interpretations, depending on how you shuffled the frames. The raw footage was really messy. Doppelganger*Images of the Human Being by Gestalten.

Book-cover, Image Courtesy of Gestalten The digital age has fundamentally changed traditional notions of who we are and how we wish to be perceived.

Doppelganger*Images of the Human Being by Gestalten

The music producer Chris Walla puts it this way: “Confronted with our significantly more banal everyday life, we’re measuring our actual selves against our online selves with hopeful resignation.” Anders KrisárBook-spread, Courtesy of Gestalten Doppelganger presents current trends in the depiction of human beings. In today’s images and sculptures, personal identities are being intensified, altered, or created through the use of techniques such as deformation and construction/deconstruction as well as the obliteration of classical proportions, visual traditions, and what is generally considered beautiful and fashionable. Anders KrisárCuirass, 2005. The book shows permutations of the outer human shell created with costumes and masks as well as photo-technical and artistic manipulation. Sources: Gestalten. What Is Love? Some Really Smart Kids May Have The Answer – bluecentric.com. Steve Smith.

I don’t know what’s the deal with these hyperrealist artists, once again, great work, but absolutely no information…so I’ll just tell you to look at Steve Smith’s pretty paintings, who apparently dreams of sunny days, holidays and sunglasses.

Steve Smith

Can’t say I blame him!