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Weekend Activity: Build your own Zen Garden
Japanese Zen Gardens are known for their calming effects and for centuries gardeners in Japan have cultivated, groomed and maintained Zen rock gardens and their dry landscape style called Karesansui (”withered landscape”).
Scientist analyzing one of the World most famous Zen gardens, the Zen rock garden of the Ryoanji Temple (Temple of the Peaceful Dragon) in Kyoto revealed that the calming effect is due to subliminal messages created by the arrangement of rocks and gravel. If they would have also asked the gardeners maintaining the beauty of that place, they would have learned that - as known to many practicing Zen - that maintaining or arranging such a garden has a calming effect of its own.
While you might not be able to feel the gravel passing through the teeth of your rake within one of these old gardens, you could create yourself a miniature version of a Zen rock garden and enjoy peace and quietness that way.
There are ready made miniature Zen garden sets available, but we put together a few links demonstrating how to create one yourself with parts you might…
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Weekend Activity: Create an Origami Christmas tree
With the holidays almost around the corner maybe its a good time to practice some new skills. How about creating some Origami Christmas Trees.
The Origami Resource Center has a series of example folding instruction for you to begin with.
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Augmented Reality: A monster on your desk
If you want to try out augmented reality effects for yourself all you need is Flash and a web cam connected to your computer.
Uses the Papervision and the FLARToolkit flash components. You’ll find some more examples at the FLARToolkit web site (link below). The Boffswana page (link below) has step by step instructions and the PDF with the marker. Source code is available.
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Weekend Activity: Make some Paper Planes
Here’s a great way to create a F-16 Falcon Paper Airplane. The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site (link below) has detailed instructions plus a video and a PDF file for the coloring.
The Amazing Paper Airplanes web site has many more plans and instructions including the F-117A Nighthawk, Space Shuttle and Concorde.
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Weekend Activity: Origami
Here’s a great time lapsed video of how to create an origami version of Evangelion Unit 01
Might be a bit tough to start with that art but still interesting to watch.
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DIY: Melon Brains
If you’re still looking for some last details for Halloween get out and buy some water melons.
The Melon Brains how-to guide from Instructables is one of the best new ideas we’ve seen for this year’s Halloween.
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DIY: Create a HDR time-lapsed movie
So far San Francisco based photographer Chad Richard is one of the very few who create time-lapsed HDR movies. He uses the new Nikon D700 that allows to take up to 8fps full frame images and post-processes / blend the frames into HDR images with Photomatix. Out of the about 1000 resulting HDR images he creates a 15-20 second long time-lapsed video with QuickTime…
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Video: Sticky-Note Experiment
One for the weekend to try out - things you can do with office sticky notes.
From the new ABC show Samurai Girl.
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DIY: Make your own Porsche Wallpaper
Called “Picture it“, Porsche has made an online image application available that allows to combine your own images as background with images of Porsche cars.
Porsche suggests that you use an image of “your drive way” as background, but any other picture is possible as well (as long as it is smaller than 4MB). We’ve used some…
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DIY: Two more ideas for things made out of paper
Two more additions to our loose series on great paper craft sites - guitars and disasters…
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