My DIY final Project: Hijab is Beauty

Hello, guys! Here, is the link to my tumblr about my DIY project entitled "Hijab is beauty".

And, just wanted to thank you guys, for being so involved, interactive and inquisitive.
:) Hope you guys can take out a few, just to read and watch more videos, that I wasn't able to present in class because of the limited time.

Just a notification, not all the videos are on the tumblr, yet. It is taking a very long time to upload, all the videos. But I will, have them all up, technology cannot defeat. :P But, all the pictures are on it.

Alright, thanks. :)

Create your own DIY spy microphone

Step 1 — Make the dish

· Use wire cutters to snip away the 4 plastic holders that connect the hat’s umbrella to its headband.

Step 2

· Slice the top of the plastic knob off the top of the umbrella, and clean up the hole with a knife or reamer.

Step 3

· Cover 1 gore of the umbrella near the center with a trapezoidal piece of the gaffer’s tape. Cut a small X-shaped incision through the tape and umbrella; this will be the reinforced hole that the microphone wire will pass through.

Step 4 — Attach the handle

· Remove the paint roller’s plastic caps and wire frame. Push the shaft through the hole in the top of the umbrella, so that it protrudes 6" underneath. Leave ½" of clearance between the outer surface of the umbrella and the bend of the handle.

Step 5

· Just above the umbrella’s top knob, wrap a length of tape around the shaft and ring it with a cable tie pulled tight. Wrap the the shaft with more tape, to provide a gripping surface for the microphone.

Step 6 — Install the microphone

· Clip the mic to the shaft and thread the cable through the X hole. Secure the cable with cable ties.

Step 7

· You want to place the microphone at the focal point of the reflector, but realize that this is a plastic umbrella, not a perfect parabola. So this “point” will be more of a semifocal blur. Here are 3 ways to position the mic, in decreasing order of complexity:

o Point a laser at different points on the inside of the umbrella from a distance of about 20 feet directly in front of the unit. Mark where it reflects onto the shaft to find the general region of focus.

o Plug the mic into a recording device, put on some headphones, and point it toward a ticking clock some distance away. Move the microphone along the shaft until you get the loudest sound.

o Just take my word for it, and position the mic about 3" from the inside surface of the umbrella.

Step 8 — Take it for a test ride

· Plug your new parabolic mic into a recorder. Use headphones to monitor your work. Then point it at something interesting. You’re in for a pleasant surprise!

Handmade Nation Trailer

J.V Records

John Jay's own Jose Quinonez aka El Pezeta making his music. He does his own tracks in his crib from a closet set up to the computer. Do it Yourself Music

New Coldplay album inspired by graffiti

One of my buddies told me about this article today and I had been reading about it in Rolling Stone. I thought it was really cool that a Pop/Rock group was inspired by NYC graffiti, especially since they are an English band and have so much graffiti in their country. A lot of times, people automatically assume that graffiti is an art associated with Hip-Hop and Rap but the truth is, it originated from Punk Rock as we learned this year. I'm not too big of a Coldplay fan but this makes me want to check out their new album when it comes out.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/nov/26/new-coldplay-album-inspired-graffiti

Jersey Shore Gives Michael Cera A Makeover

I believe that it is funny that the Jersey Shore cast give4s Michael Cera a makeover based on what they believe a Guido should look like.

DIY 'Hackers' Tinker Everyday Things Into Treasure

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Christopher Thompson — of Philadelphia's Hive 76 hacker space — builds a BOOMcase boombox out of a suitcase and an amplifier from an old computer speaker system.

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Christopher Thompson — of Philadelphia's Hive 76 hacker space — builds a BOOMcase boombox out of a suitcase and an amplifier from an old computer speaker system.

Are You A Hacker? Find Your Space

Find a community of DIY folk near you on HackerSpaces.org.

List Of Hacker Spaces

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November 21, 2010

Most people think of a hacker as someone who breaks into computer networks, but many in the do-it-yourself movement have adopted the term for themselves. DIY hackers take everyday items and hack, or modify, them to serve new purposes. In the last few years, work spaces dedicated to their craft have been sprouting up all over North America.

In Chicago, members of the Pumping Station: One hacker space have turned a bicycle and trailer into a glow-in-the-dark ice cream maker. Outside San Francisco, members of the Noisebridge hacker space sent an amateur weather balloon 70,000 feet into the sky. And at the All Hands Active hacker space in Ann Arbor, Mich., a woman with a neuroscience degree turned an empty propane tank into a musical instrument.

In more than 70 hacker spaces in the U.S. and Canada, do-it-yourselfers are drilling, gluing, soldering and welding just about anything you can imagine. Some spaces consist of little more than a large room where they share tools and expertise, while others are equipped with expensive, computer-controlled power tools. While the focus at some hacker spaces is primarily on electronics, at others, sawdust flies and sewing machines whir as members build hybrid objects of a less technological variety. The spaces also offer learning opportunities through classes on anything from brewing beer to picking locks, and demonstrations of new contraptions.

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Do-it-yourself hackers John Young, Randy Schmidt, Will Ronco and Chris Thompson created Meatcards in April 2009.

Christopher Thompson

Do-it-yourself hackers John Young, Randy Schmidt, Will Ronco and Chris Thompson created Meatcards in April 2009.

On a recent weeknight at the Brooklyn hacker space NYC Resistor, a visitor from Brazil gave a talk about how to build a pinball machine. The hackers at NYC Resistor have some experience with recreational machinery; they once turned an old slot machine into a robot that mixes alcoholic drinks, from Bloody Marys to Dirty Chihuahuas.

"Imagine kittens with jet packs flying around in a room," says NYC Resistor co-founder Bre Pettis. "NYC Resistor is a force of chaos in the world."

All that energy and creativity is made possible by a well-equipped and stable place to work, which is essentially what these hacker spaces are. They wouldn't survive without some financial support, so most have monthly dues between $50 and $100. A handful of the spaces are commercial enterprises, but most are democratically run nonprofits.

"It's a combination of community, as well as opportunities for people to express themselves through making things and learning more and more about what they're enthusiastic about and really love," says Mitch Altman, co-founder of the San Francisco hacker space Noisebridge. "Each space is unique and over time all of the spaces … get more diverse."

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Jack Zylkin's USB Typewriter allows you to write emails from an old manual typewriter.

Jack Zylkin

Jack Zylkin's USB Typewriter allows you to write emails from an old manual typewriter.

The diversity of the hacker space is particularly visible at Philadelphia's Hive 76 where, on a recent weeknight, one member made business cards by etching beef jerky with a laser cutter while another played his iPod through a small suitcase that had been transformed into a boombox. Jack Zylkin, a 26-year-old electrical engineer, mashed new technology with old by making a computer keyboard out of an old manual typewriter.

Before he started wiring up old typewriters, Zylkin was making wooden puzzles at home. He used his bedroom as a silk screen studio and his kitchen as a wood shop.

"Before I came here to Hive 76, I had a drill press right next to my sink," Zylkin says. "I'd be drilling a hole in something with the drill press, and all the wood shavings I'd just brushed into the sink trap."

Hacker spaces are making it possible — and in some cases profitable — for tinkerers like Zylkin to pursue their creative impulses and to make things that, until now, have gone unimagined.

"[Hive 76] gave me a place to put all my tools and meet other crazy people who were also at risk of burning their houses down," his says. "This place rescued me."

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DIY Temporary Tattoos

JuliAnn Miller’s Test Kit Allows You to Think Before You Ink

JuliAnn Miller’s ‘Tattoo Tester’ is a design that allows you to create your own temporary tattoo. The packaging for this DIY temporary tattoo kit contains statistics and information about tattooed individuals who have regretted their tattoos, and emphasizes that her option allows you to experiment with a design without the lifetime commitment.

JuliAnn Miller is a graphic design student at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco. The ‘Tattoo Tester’ is the result of a project Miller completed for an information design class.

In my opinion the entire idea of temporary tattoo designs is somehow a very good idea especially when compared to actual permanent tattoos that remain with you for the rest of your life as if a permanent scar that will always be a burden if you ever end up regretting it. Kudos To JuliAnn Miller !


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Graffiti writer left with severe burns after climbing on to rail tracks and urinating on transformer

An Australian learned the hard way not to urinate on a transformer when he was electrocuted

and almost died. The unnamed man, a Gold Coast graffiti vandal, ended up with severe burns on

almost half his body after he and three associates snuck into the Coomera railroad power way.

At some point he recieved a potentially lethal schock of 22,000 volts that has left him

hospitalised for the foreseeable future. Ignoring signs reading "Danger- High Voltage", the

vandals cut through wire fences and scaled the transformer in the rain around midnight. While

he was horribly injured, the current may have partially bypassed his body due to his rain-

soaked clothes, The Courier-Mail reports. His companions told the ambulance workers the man

was injured when he urinated on the tranformer. But police believe the urination story is a

coverup for the true intentions - graffiti. They believe he snuck into the power station with the

intent to tag it with the word "Wino".

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