DIY (Do It Yourself) Month 4 * Week 2

Do you remember the last time you Sharpie-d or embellished a pair of sneakers? For us, it had been far too long so when we saw Miu Miu‘s latest glittery sneakers for fall, we were anxious to bling out our own pair using a pair of classic Vans as our canvas.

You’ll need:

• a pair of white canvas Vans
• 8 ounces of Mod Podge
• 1.5 ounces of coarse gold glitter
• 1 small and 1 medium flat brush
• assorted rhinestones in settings
• heavy duty adhesive
• small plastic tray
• tape

Start by taping the edges of the shoes, covering the rubber soles. Cover both toes with tape as this is where the rhinestones will be glued on later. (Click images to enlarge)

Add one part course glitter to two parts Mod Podge into a small plastic cup or tray.

Stir the mixture thoroughly with a paintbrush. The consistency should be rather thick but not pasty. Apply a layer of the glitter mixture to the shoe. Allow to dry for 10-15 minutes and add a second and third layer until hardly any white space is showing. Use an exacto knife or the edge of your fingernail to scrape off any glitter that might have dried onto the grommets or soles.

Remove the tape. Using adhesive, glue the rhinestones on the toe in any pattern.

Sport your new Miu Miu inspired glittery sneakers with or without laces!

Thanks to Ashley James for this week’s DIY Post

The Weeknd Specials: Arts

hey y’all. i have been doing some researches on crazy art designs all around the world for this weekend..and it was fruitful..look at what i have got !

Have a lovely easter celebration y’all

Sphero :: Bluetooth Controlled

Smartphone Controlled Light-up Ball, Sphero, is Ready to Roll

We first saw Sphero, the smartphone-controlled robotic ball, at last year’s CES–but it was just a prototype then. Now it’s a product that retails for $129 and has five available free apps with more–both free and paid–apps in the works.

Sphero isn’t terribly useful or productive. It’s about the size of a baseball and it has a multi-color light inside it. You can control it using apps on your iOS or Android device–you can make it roll around, speed up, slow down, and change color. You can also play games with it, such as “golf,” or “driving,” using the golf and driving apps. There are a couple of other games, including a “draw and drive” game that lets you draw a path for the Sphero to follow.

So while it’s not very useful, it is kind of fun to play around with. Getting started with Sphero is easy–just calibrate the ball by placing two fingers on your smartphone and turning them until you see the blue light on the Sphero turn and face you. After the ball is calibrated, you’ll be able to control it accurately (though you may need to recalibrate the ball if you turn around. Then you can move a virtual joystick on your smartphone screen and the ball will move in that direction.

According to a Sphero representative, Sphero has a range of about 50 – 60 feet in an open area (it uses Bluetooth to connect to your smartphone).

One plus is Sphero is waterproof, so you don’t have to worry about your dog slobbering over it or accidentally rolling it into the pool.

Though Sphero may not be super-productive, it’s a fun high-tech toy for playing with your dog (or cat) , and there are even apps that help you capture the fun moments. For example, a Sphero cam app lets you record video from your smartphone while you also play with the ball, so you can post you funny cat videos online.

TOD’s Shoes

Tod’s shoes are new though..they started their reign in nigeria late last year, and its spreading so fast amongst the island’s fresh boys atmosphere..no much talk..just see some pictures..

go get yours…NOW!

When computers were sexy: Hilarious vintage ads from the early days of the PC

Companies such as Apple have made their name by marketing their products not just as technological tools but as glamorous and fun toys.

But this marketing technique is nothing new, as these vintage adverts from the early days of PCs show.

They portray computers as fun, easy to use – and even sexy, with the help of a few eager-looking models.

Other quirks of the now-outdated ads include the attempt to initiate consumers in the strange world of ‘electronic mail’, and an appearance from the young Bill Gates.

 

‘Maybe even sexy’: This glamorous 1971 advert is trying to sell a modem, of all things

 

Girl power: Technico Inc also used sex appeal to sell their ‘microcomputer’ in 1978

Sex sells: Film character Elvira was recruited to depict a desktop as a chainsaw tearing apart the old ways of doing things in this bizarre 1991 advert

 

What indeed? Three decades on, scenes like this are a thing of the past as email has become ubiquitous

 

Hot shot: Bill Gates teamed up with Radio Shack in 1985 to promote computers carrying Microsoft Windows

 

Star power: Sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov was another well-known spokesman for Radio Shack in the 1980s

 

 

Handy? In 1976, this chunky briefcase was the equivalent of the modern laptop, complete with tiny screen

 

Groundbreaking: This advert for Microsoft Excel predicts that the programme will still be useful in five years… and it was 25 years ago

 

Giant? This RAM card from 1977 was fast for its time, but had 30,000 times less power than the latest iPhone

 

Mail order memory: System Industries charged an annual salary for enough storage space to hold half a movie

The Alarm Clock From Hell

Local engineer Paul Sammut invents the most annoying alarm clock ever ::::::::::

The cursed clock requires sleepers to enter an ever-changing PIN code on a punch pad in another room just to activate the snooze button.

“In high school, I had a really good alarm clock, and it was my mom,” said the clock’s inventor, 24-year-old Paul Sammut. “She wouldn’t stop annoying me until I got out of bed. I tried to think of something similar to that.”

After leaving home, Sammut dreamed for years of enjoying a leisurely breakfast before work.
“I could never say no to a warm, cozy bed,” he said.

“My alarm would go off, and I’d hit the snooze button until it was too late.”
He tried moving his alarm to other rooms so he’d be forced out of bed to turn it off.
 
“If you put your alarm clock too far away, you’re not going to hear it or you’re going to piss off your roommates,” he said.

His invention, called the Ramos clock, sits on a nightstand but only stops ringing after getting a wireless signal from the punch pad placed a room or two away. Worse, an hour before going off, it can be set to go into lockdown mode, preventing any last-minute changes to the wake up time.

“You can’t turn it off, you can’t reset. It’s going to go off,” he said with a wicked smile as he patted a prototype. “It’s friendly. You just need to do what it says.”

Sammut spent the last year fine-tuning — and waking up to — the prototype, which has about 60 components inside its sleek birch veneer. He buys antique parts from sellers in Russia on eBay.

Inside the clock, an electromagnetic coil wrapped around a tube causes a pin to hit the head of a concierge bell, the kind customers use to summon absent help when no one’s behind the desk. The bell rings repeatedly in a random patter until deactivated by the PIN.

“I coded it so it sounds like an annoying customer,” Sammut said.

The punch pad requires you to enter that day’s date.

“It forces me to punch in a different number every day,” Sammut explained. “I’m trying to break myself out of that morning zombie state.”

He showcased the clock on kickstarter.com last week and unexpectedly hit his $75,000 fund-raising goal in just six days.

More than 120 gluttons for punishment have pledged $160 or more on the website to be among the first to get their hands on the weapon of mass disruption. He’s pledged to get them their clocks by September.

He will make them in his spare time from his day job developing underwater robots with Navy funding at Hoboken’s Stevens Institute of Technology.

Born in Queens, Sammut spent his early childhood in his parents’s native Malta before they moved to the upper East Side when he was 11. His dad, a doorman and handyman, always had a workshop. Sammut made his own when he moved to Hoboken as an adult.
The clock, he says, has changed his life.

“I wake up right before it goes off,” he said. “I fear it now.”

DIY (Do It Yourself) Month 4 * Week 1

hey y’all, happy new month..my saturday didnt really go quite well, but thats last month!! . Well, this week”s DIY is also a bracelet, i think bracelets are the reigning accessories these days…enjoy..and learn…(thanks to Kristie Kingston from United Kingdom, for the pics)

DIY Wrap Bracelet

 

You should all know by now that we are all about stacking bracelets on our wrists. The more, the better. In fact . . . the most, the best! With that being said, we’ll show you how to master a version of the ever so popular wrap bracelet. It’s so simple and addicting, you’ll soon be churning out these wristlets with your eyes closed. Clearly this arm party train isn’t stopping and it’s about time you get on board!

You’ll need (for a double wrapped bracelet) :

• 44-55 inches* of 1.5mm leather cord
• 12-15 inches* of brass ball chain or crystal chain
• 58-72 inches* of waxed linen cord (scroll down in link)
• a 1/4″ brass hex nut
• a pair of scissors

* Lengths will vary depending on the size of your wrist (see comments for suggestions).

 

Fold the length of leather cording in half to form a loop. The loop should fit around the hex nut, which serves as the clasp. Run the tip of the waxed linen upwards along the leather cord and towards the loop. Then wrap around the base of the loop at least 5-6 times, working downwards in the opposite direction. This secures the waxed linen cord and is the start of the bracelet.

Place the ball chain along the leather cording with the end of the chain meeting the end of the wrap. Holding the ball chain against the leather cord, wrap the linen around tightly.

Continue wrapping while checking it for fit around the wrist.

When you have reached the end of the ball chain wrap the linen cording around the leather strands 2-3 more times. Tie a knot with all three strands.

Thread the hex nut through the strands and tie a second knot.

Trim with scissors and your wrap bracelet is finished!!

The materials are listed for a double wrap bracelet. For a single or triple wrapped bracelet, divide the measurements by 2 and multiply by accordingly. Experiment with crystal or other types of chain!

It’s a party!