Make Your Own Photo Journals and Notebooks Our friend Judy runs a one-woman shop making the most beautiful handmade journals we’ve ever seen. Naturally, when we saw the photographs she used for her covers, we ran straight to her apartment, video camera in hand. So today we’ve got two special treats for you: 1) A how-to video of Judy showing you how you can make your own perfect-bound journal using two 4×6 photos for the cover, some paper, glue, and a few other tools. 2) Two special edition journals made with pages of sugarcane fiber and reclaimed paper by Judy herself. Created for writers, illustrators, artist and designers, her notebooks have unique features like an inner pocket for looseleaf notes and a spine that opens flat for writing or drawing across the pages. p.s. Step 1: Gather the ingredients You’ll need: Step 2: Watch Our Video Step 3: Make Your Own Photo Journal! They’re great for keeping track of ideas and they make great gifts! Finally, for a limited time, we’re selling spiffy photo journals made by Judy in our store.
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources How to draw faces: female Here's a quick tutorial on how to draw a face. (Also see our male face tutorial). Please check out these tips before you read any further: Advertisement: (If you've done one of my tutorials before you don't have to check the tips again). I used Photoshop to draw this picture, but don't worry, it's the same on paper with a pencil and eraser. First you'll need a reference picture. You'll note the face is oval shaped. Here's the oval. Step 1. Step 2. Place the nose. Step 3. Tips: 1. 2. 3. Step 4. Step 5. Erase your guide lines and give your face a shape. Step 6. Step 7. 1. 2. 3. 4. Here's a quick process animation: Step 8. You have reached the end of this tutorial. Here's a hair tutorial that goes with this. About The Author: BarakiEl's favourite things to do include creating digital art, listening to music, playing computer games and spending time with her husband. Posted in: Art by BarakiEl on May 17, 2010 @ 11:57 am (248 Comments)
25 Great Thinkers Every College Student Should Read By Donna Scott College is for expanding one’s intellectual horizons. Unfortunately, drinking and having fun, can distract from learning about history’s great thinkers. Western Philosophers Western universities understandably tend to focus on Western philosophers and thinkers. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson was an influential figure in the first recognized American school of philosophical thought. Eastern Thinkers Eastern philosophies have proven influential on figures throughout history from Marco Polo to the Beatles. Confucius: A Chinese thinker and social philosopher, Confucius emphasized personal and institutional morality as well as justice and proper social relationships.Avicenna: This Persian mathematician is perhaps one of the most widely known Muslim philosophers. Statesman Polls show few people trust politicians. Winston Churchill: In his nation’s darkest hour, Winston Churchill served as a beacon of inspiration and support. Writers and Artists
My books and how to make them « Much of a muchness I thought as I haven’t been making so many books recently and yet I am still passing myself off as a bookbinding blog, I ought to at least show you some of the books I have made during the last year. Be warned, there are a lot of them! You can see them all together by clicking this link to my Flickr page And I really must get my Etsy shop up and running…. Ribbon binding – a tutorial I am often asked to explain how I make my books so I thought I would prepare a very basic tutorial. This method will make an A5 sized book. Materials 40 sheets of paper This can be from a shop bought sketch book, cut to size or even printer paper. So here we go. Method • First fold all the paper sheets in half. Image:click to enlarge • Take one of the sections, and starting at the right side, place a mark on the crease 0.5cm from the end, then 5cm from the end. • Holding all ten sections together, repeat the markings on all sections. • You have just made a text block. • You now need to cut three pieces of board.
Was Ayn Rand a Conservative? Was Ayn Rand a Conservative?by Neil Parille Introduction Some years ago I consulted a biographical dictionary for information on Ayn Rand. The dictionary described Rand as a “conservative.” At the same time, the occasional references to Rand as a conservative call for explanation. Ayn Rand’s “Conservatism” The idea that Rand was a conservative probably results from a focus on her advocacy of capitalism in isolation from the rest of her thought. Another reason Rand might be considered a conservative is that some of her views on moral theory and individual moral issues also find echoes in conservative thought. It is also interesting to observe how Rand allies herself with the middle class in opposition to the intellectuals and the “counter culture.” There are other issues on which Rand sided with conservatives and the middle class. Rand also attacked progressive education and its chief theoretician, John Dewey, both frequent targets of conservatives. Anti-Egalitarianism The State Persecuted?
how to draw female comic characters (according to Wizard)... brown_betty asked for examples "to illustrate the exactly how and why female comic characters are illustrated differently than the male." And I thought, really, what's better to illustrate these things than the books teaching the style in the first place? A while ago I posted some scans from Wizard How To Draw series on drawing female superheroes (here and here), and I thought I'd post a bunch more from the first book of the series on "How To Draw: Heroic Anatomy". As everything, it starts with the basics, i.e. proportions. First the male superhero The female example is similar, but slightly different, notice how he stands firm and straight, wheras she stands with her hips cocked a little and the leg thrust forward? Also notice in the direct torso comparison below, how the male one is ramrod straight, but she curves and leans just a little bit in the same pose? Now onwards to the chapter "Sultry Women". Next, Michael Turner explains "Sex Appeal".
EV Miniatures Long stitch tutorial part 1! Due to popular demand I've decided to go ahead and work on a long stitch tutorial. I'm going to work on it in several parts, it's 31 pictures long! This can work on paper covers, fabric covers and the leather covers I've demonstarted here. First start with my tutorial on creating stations and measuring those onto your signatures. Cut stations on spine and punch stations in signatures. A long stitch needs sets of holes- every hole needs a partner! I work back to front. ONce you've entered that station you can thread your needle through the spine. Then enter the next station up and pull the needle through and into the center fold of the signature. Now your going to tie the working end of the thread to the tail left in the middle of the signature. Now exit the next station up from the station you just tied the knot over. First your going to tighten the tension of the thread. Thats the end of part one of the tutorial.
The Ayn Rand Institute: A Brief Biography of Ayn Rand During her own lifetime, Rand became a famous and controversial figure. A best-selling author, she also carried her message to university classrooms, to Hollywood, to Congress, to the editorial page, to talk shows and radio programs. Her presence has only increased since her death in 1982, as her philosophy has become more well-known. Fueled by her vision of man as a heroic being and by the original philosophy behind it, more and more people, from all walks of life, from businessmen to students to professors to athletes to artists, are saying the same thing: "Ayn Rand's writings changed my life." “I did not know that I was predicting my own future when I described the process of Roark’s success: ‘It was as if an underground stream flowed through the country and broke out in sudden springs that shot to the surface at random, in unpredictable places.” — Ayn Rand, “To the Readers of The Fountainhead,” The Fountainhead
How do you create a product people want to buy? « Unicornfree with Amy Hoy: Creating And Selling Your Own Products Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Have you ever found yourself mired in this process? Come up with idea!Build idea!Put idea online… Wait for sales…… wait for sales…Double down and try to figure out “product-market fit”, in other words: Who wants to buy this? Over the years, I’ve watched countless friends & acquaintances get stuck in this process. If you do make it to Step 6, though, you come face to face with the high probability of Hidden Step 7: Give Up, wherein you struggle to find a repeatable source of sales… and can’t. Lots of strategies have come out to “fix” this process. Get you past Step 3: Ship The Damn Thing more often, faster (“Lean”)Hopefully carry you from Step 6: Flail to actual sales, instead of the nearly inevitable Step 7: Give Up (“Customer Development”) Oofta. The real trick is to bypass this process entirely Because the original “process” (such as it is, formed of unconscious wishes and unicorn spit) is not valid. In 30×500, Alex and I teach our students a better way.