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Here are three quick and simple projects you can do with old records and LP covers. Melt them to make a bowl, make a cool LP cover box and my fav, record coasters. I’ve been meaning to try the record melting to bowl thing for awhile, just need to pick up an old damaged record that I won’t feel bad about bowl-ifying. Link.
The end result is pretty nice…in line with my desperate attempt to be a jack-of-all-trades (and master of some?) I decided to build a model of a mech out of garbage. Now I’ve seen some damn fancy scrap mech building in my day. When you’re done visiting here, check out this stuff, which I think is mostly kit-based but with lots of customization. [via] Link.
MetaFilter has a round up and a great discussion on tube amps. Some cool little tube amps. The world’s smallest production tube amp and world’s Smallest Vacuum Tube hi-fi stereo amplifier. These are too cool. Link.
...organize classical music such that the composer appears in the artist field and the artist/ensemble appears somewhere else. The obvious choice would be to use the now vacated composer slot, and I do exactly that. I’ve modified iTunes to support this new paradigm and am VERY happy with the change. The final result looks like this… Link.
Take a virtual tour around Seattle using Google Earth and stop by to see some videos from our archive. GeoVlogging is the process associating a geographic location to a video blog post. In our first virtual voyage, you’ll be able to watch time pass over Lake Union and share in some of our Seattle experiences. [via] Link. Also, looks like a new version is out.
$77, not bad – Who this is for: You: owner of a small design company, a seat-of-your-pants freelancer, or perhaps an under-appreciated intern in the marketing staff of a big corporation. You wish to improve what you can offer photographically for your projects, you might only own a mid-range consumer digital camera. Read on, this article is intended as a helpful starting point. Link.
This article will show you how to make your own microphone pop-filter. A pop-filter is a small screen that goes between a microphone and your mouth to prevent sharp popping sounds (known as plosives) like “P” and “B” words from overloading the mic level and distorting. Commercially available pop-filters are expensive and can often cost 20 dollars or more. The pop-filter you can build here will cost less than $6 dollars. Link.
