Tie a Bow-tie

This is a well made tutorial on how to tie a bowtie.

Unfortunately I forgot to get a bowtie....Anyone have one I could borrow?

Happy Valentine's Day

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69ht0nKhAn8

Paper Crane

Have you seen the Paper Plane yet?

Card Throwing

After 1 ruined deck of cards, 1 fatigued forearm, and 1 hour of my life I'll never see again; I present to you:

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMoc7tHMQOg

Boogie doing the Electric Slide ►  

Card Trick

From card tricks to Card Throwing ►

Learn to Draw Stewie

My drawing skills are by far the worst in my immediate family; the ability gap is kind of scary. While I was practicing, my dad looked over my shoulder and inquired, "Who is this? Hello Kitty?".  No comment...

Give it a try yourself. This is a good guide.

Practice Runs

Happy Stewie > Evil Stewie

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7XBnojAGDQ

Let's Learn ASL ► 

Button Sewing

Sister: Hey what are you learning tomorrow?

Me: To sew buttons.

Sister: Oh great, I have a couple shirts that need buttons!

Dad: So what is your lesson for today?

Me: To sew buttons.

Dad: What?

Me: To sew buttons.

Dad: What?

Me: To sew buttons.

Dad: Oh, you can fix my pants!

The strangest thing is they both know how to sew buttons but don't do it themselves. We all give our clothes to my mom to sew our buttons. Now it's my turn to know how to sew my own buttons but give them to my mom to mend anyway. 

This button took me 11 minutes and 27 seconds from start to finish (it took me about 60 seconds to find which button needed to be replaced). The video in it's original state is about as interesting as watching standing cat, all 745mb of it (I lied, standing cat is fascinating). 

I've sped it up and added an audio track so it's a bit more entertaining. Enjoy!

Sources: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrSs_DiJ-ZA

Go Learn Some Shqip ►

Put Your Hands Together - Human Paper Accordian

Cartoons introduced me to human paper accordions and therefore I had a tough time rationalizing whether or not they were really possible. Remember that these cartoon artists are the same people who largely popularized a cross-dressing, smart-alec bunny wabbit and showed us that dropping anvils on people is merely a means of slowing them down. 

See the results:

Watch Me Parallel Park ►

Paper Planes

This is a paper airplane that I've wanted to make since high school. A friend (who now makes handheld flamethrowers) brought one to school and I thought it was so cool. A short six years later and all my aeronautical aspirations have been achieved.

A former GE aerospace engine design engineer informed me that "it flies straight and true".



Sources: http://www.zurqui.co.cr/crinfocus/paper/air-bld1.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3_VMPkzI8A

Let's Go: Brew Some Coffee ►