Traditional Drawing - 50 Tuturials

Nowadays everybody can make great drawings using photoshop and other digital software programs. That is since traditional drawing is way harder than digital and you can make much faster progress. But if you can make great traditional drawings you can make more distinct and "real" drawings, as is it also a great foundation and techniques learned in the traditional drawing can be a great help whilst using software.

Smashing magazine collected FIFTY (!) tutorials and techniques to make your traditional drawing much better, even for the people who never made drawings before (like me) there are some great tutorials from the real beginning. So if you want to know how to draw lips, cars, optimus prime, dogs, hair, eyes, hands, roses and so go have a look!!  

How to draw a hand:

Outer Space - 15 things you didn't know

Outer space has always caught the imagination of people. The fascination is rooted in the inherent curiosity people have for the unknown. But, the truth is, we have learned a great deal about outer space. While that great deal of knowledge may only be a speck in the cosmic sense because there’s so much more to know, some of what we are cognizant of is illustrated below to give you a primer as to what’s really out there. 

Via: OnlineSchools.org

BBC's Horizon - Rubber Hand Illusion

A great video about how your brain "adopts" a fake hand for being your own:

This is video is part from the BBC program called Horizon, it is a program that explores the strange and wonderful world of illusions and reveals the tricks they play on our senses and the way they fool us. More on BBC's Horizon page

Full Length Documentaries - On Youtube!

Everybody likes to watch a good full length documentary now and then. Mostly due to the fact that documentary are there about all kind of subjects, so for everybody's interest. But for a documentary most times you are not taking the effort to buy or download it, for a good movie you would, but a documentary needs to be really good before you want to download it. Youtube documentaries solves this problem, although youtube video's are normally restricted to 10 minutes. This website sticks together the several youtube parts and creates one full length documentary video from it. In their collection are virtually 100's of documentaries. One of the documentaries they have is shown below, the documentary "Men of Rock":

Men of Rock (BBC)

Broadcast (2011) Professor Iain Stewart traces the story of how the landscape of Scotland revealed to the world how the planet works. A band of pioneer geologists in Scotland were the first to work out the true age of the Earth, measure earthquakes, understand supervolcanoes, discover the ice ages and explain how continents move around the surface of the planet. This new three-part series takes us through the latest science about the Earth and shows how these early mavericks and visionaries came up with revolutionary ideas that changed scientific understanding of the world forever. Deep Time: Iain Stewart follows in the footsteps of the founding father of geology, James Hutton. This Scottish rogue was a profound and original thinker who, 250 years ago, overturned ancient beliefs about how and when the world was formed. His ideas clashed with those of the most eminent scientist of his day. Lord Kelvin was determined to prove Hutton wrong. Moving Mountains: Iain finds out how gung-ho geologist Edward Bailey discovered Scotland was once home to super volcanoes. And how unsung hero Arthur Holmes solved the mystery of what makes continents move across the surface of the globe. Iain takes a close look at the Old Man of Stoer, one of the highest sea stacks in Britain, and we learn how the Victorians came up with an ingenious device to show how mountains can be made. The Big Freeze: In the final episode, Iain finds out about daredevil scientist Louis Agassiz, who first imagined the world had been gripped by an ice age. Plus, the story of humble janitor James Croll, who used the planets to work out the natural rhythms of the earth's climate, and discovered the causes of ice ages. Iain climbs down a crevasse, echoing the actions of daredevil scientist Louis Agassiz, who almost died from his experiment.

TED - Ideas Worth Spreading

TED is short for: Technology, Entertainment and Design. All three of them incredibly important in our modern world. The mission of TED is to spread ideas, this is done by the so called TED talks; talks from the most brilliant minds in their subject. With a TED talk the speaker wants to convince you about his idea, how we could change things, on all kind of subjects from: schools to sixth sense and from music to barefoot movements. In many countries TED talks are organised and broadcasted live on national telivision, but might you have missed go have a look at www.TED.com

An example of Ken Robinson showing how modern schools are killing the creativity of nowadays children.

Hollow Face Illusion - How to make it?

Below is one of the best optical illusions I have seen. It is a paper dragon and it is like the head of the dragon keeps following you, all of this is just an illusion, as seen when you cross a certain angle. After some search I found a PDF file that explains how to make this great illusion, you can realy suprise your friends with this litte do it yourself project. Good luck: Hollow Face Dragon Illusion

Knoword - A vocabulary game

According to Knoword itself it can improve your: vocabulary, speed of thought as well as analytical, observational and typing skills. Anywas I like this game called Knoword and you should try it too! When you start this game, with its clear interface, you will be greeted with just one letter. Underneath this letter will be a dictionary definition of a word, which will begin with the letter in the box. Complete the word and you will gain points and extra time. 
A little warning: it can be addicting. 

Just 11 ordinary gifts...

A great post on DVICE which talks about eleven gifts made possible by science that certainly will impress your geek friend if you would give him such a gift. But even you would be impressed if you would recieve such a gift even if you are not a science geek! Some examples are shown below go for the full article to:  DVICE 

Galium:

Gallium is a silvery metal with atomic number 31. It's used in semiconductors and LEDs, but the cool thing about it is its melting point, which is only about 30 degrees Celsius. If you hold a solid gallium crystal in your hand, your body heat will cause it to slowly melt into a silvery metallic puddle. Pour it into a dish, and it freezes back into a solid.

While you probably shouldn't lick your fingers after playing with it, gallium isn't toxic and won't make you crazy like mercury does. And if you get tired of it, you can melt it onto glass and make yourself a mirror.

Price: $80

EcoSphere:

Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. Put it somewhere with some light, and this little ecosystem will chug along happily for years, no feeding or cleaning necessary, totally oblivious to the fact that the rest of the world exists outside.

EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. They're like little microcosms for the entire world, man. But ask yourself: are we the shrimp, or the algae?

Price: $80

Kongregate - Great games site

Everybody like to play a game now and then, there are a lot of sites on which you can play games, even on Facebook and Google+ it is possible. But one of the best sites for playing browser games is probably www.kongregate.com. It is great for both game developers as gamers, first, it is great for developpers cause you can earn easy money with a game you made. Kongregate has a system which rewards the best games added to kongregate each month and week, with a game you can earn up to $1500 and it is possible to add payment options in you game to earn even more! Since it is so easy to earn money for small (and hobby) game developers there is a great amount of different games to play, delivering all of the larger games on the web but also a lot of small hobby project games. For everyone there is a game and last as gamer you earn points by completing challenges in the games which is awesome :)

First post!

Dear viewer of this website,

For now (depending on when you are viewing) there is no or little content on this website, what I am planning to do is post extraordanary websites on this page. The websites will be interesting websites that are not seen by the gross of the people cause they keep going to their known pages. So I will be posting website that can be: Fun, Educative, Interesting, Science, Beautiful and so on. As long as it is a website that does something special and more people should view.

Might you have some tips, post them in the comments.