Number 1
Draw something everyday!
Number 2
Try new styles once in a while!
Number 3
Don't be afraid to copy, but copy just to get the idea. DO NOT plagiarise!
Thought I'd share this video with you guys. It is so funny how levitation in
India is revealed... Go watch it.. hehehe..
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India is revealed... Go watch it.. hehehe..
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Hey people, as promised, this week will be the MAGIC week. I'll be revealing the
secrets behind all these so called "MAGIC". -----------------------------------------------> This is not David Blaine.. :P Well for the first post I will be revealing the tricks of how coins vanish into thin air. It's not hocus -pocus or alakazaM! It's merely some tricks. I will now try to describe how the whole trick works and then include a video down there for you guys to watch ya! :)
Making a coin vanish 1. Hold the coin with your thumb and your three other fingers (other than the thumb) of your left/right hand.
2. Take your other hand and pretend like you are taking the coin from your left/right hand. When you take the coin, take it with your whole hand wrapped around the coin.
3. Release your grip on the coin and let it fall on your palm.
4. Pretend you took it and then open the hand that took it. Yes! It's that simple.
There are some other ways in performing this trick. But it all comes down to the same thing. Speed and accuracy. So keep practicing and wow your friends! Now that we know how to make the coin vanish, HOW DO WE MAKE IT COME BACK?
Coin Reproduction
1. Place the coin between the thumb and the fore finger.
2. By making your hand into a knuckle, the coin will go between your index finger and your middle finger.
3. Once intact, clip it and retract your fingers. Now that you know, try it! If you still cannot visualise it, watch the video below and you'll understand better. :) Go ahead and try it. (*whispering- I've tried a lot of times but failed.. :P Practice practice practice!) So there you go, a simple magic trick for the first post.
NEXT STOP! Levitation! What is levitation? Basically, hovering and lifting up from the ground. In simple words, FLYING! Now many people are amazed when magicians levitate in front of them. But let me tell you, that there is a logical explanation that reveals the SECRET of this trade.
Secrets of Levitation REVEALED! (It's really easy! Even I've done it!)
1. Firstly you need to find the right angle where you want the audience to be able to see your entire right foot but only the heel of your left foot.
2. Keep your left leg in the dark.
3. Lift your left foot up like you are tip toe-ing.
Yes! There is nothing so complicating about levitation. Don't believe me? Watch the video below. ;)
Enjoy!
Making a coin vanish 1. Hold the coin with your thumb and your three other fingers (other than the thumb) of your left/right hand.
2. Take your other hand and pretend like you are taking the coin from your left/right hand. When you take the coin, take it with your whole hand wrapped around the coin.
3. Release your grip on the coin and let it fall on your palm.
4. Pretend you took it and then open the hand that took it. Yes! It's that simple.
There are some other ways in performing this trick. But it all comes down to the same thing. Speed and accuracy. So keep practicing and wow your friends! Now that we know how to make the coin vanish, HOW DO WE MAKE IT COME BACK?
Coin Reproduction
1. Place the coin between the thumb and the fore finger.
2. By making your hand into a knuckle, the coin will go between your index finger and your middle finger.
3. Once intact, clip it and retract your fingers. Now that you know, try it! If you still cannot visualise it, watch the video below and you'll understand better. :) Go ahead and try it. (*whispering- I've tried a lot of times but failed.. :P Practice practice practice!) So there you go, a simple magic trick for the first post.
NEXT STOP! Levitation! What is levitation? Basically, hovering and lifting up from the ground. In simple words, FLYING! Now many people are amazed when magicians levitate in front of them. But let me tell you, that there is a logical explanation that reveals the SECRET of this trade.
Secrets of Levitation REVEALED! (It's really easy! Even I've done it!)
1. Firstly you need to find the right angle where you want the audience to be able to see your entire right foot but only the heel of your left foot.
2. Keep your left leg in the dark.
3. Lift your left foot up like you are tip toe-ing.
Yes! There is nothing so complicating about levitation. Don't believe me? Watch the video below. ;)
Enjoy!
Dreams are collections of images that appear in our mind’s eye while we sleep. Here’s a little information about the “collections” you might get.
What are your dreams trying to tell you?
- Dreams often express emotions we don’t feel we could reveal during the day.
- If you’re angry with someone, you might dream of teeth falling out (oh my goodness), revealing how frustrated you feel with the whole thing. (This is no joke. People actually study these things.)
And nightmares? They usually come around during stressful times in our life. What you dream about could actually reflect your life, according to “dream doctors”.
- Being chased. What situation in your waking life are you running away from?
- Monsters. Represents parts of ourselves we don’t like, such as our bad tempers. Feeling Hulk-ish lately?
- Falling. You got something you need to let go off?
- Feeling stuck. Feeling stuck?
- Murder. Don’t panic if you’re suddenly the victim in a CSI- like case. It actually just means you’re letting go of the past to make way for new beginnings...or that you’re watching too much CSI.
For more, Anna Jaskolka has a book titled Teen Dreams and What They Mean. And Molly Mann describes vivid dreams and scary nightmares in more detail at Seven Common Dreams.
What are your dreams trying to tell you?
- Dreams often express emotions we don’t feel we could reveal during the day.
- If you’re angry with someone, you might dream of teeth falling out (oh my goodness), revealing how frustrated you feel with the whole thing. (This is no joke. People actually study these things.)
And nightmares? They usually come around during stressful times in our life. What you dream about could actually reflect your life, according to “dream doctors”.
- Being chased. What situation in your waking life are you running away from?
- Monsters. Represents parts of ourselves we don’t like, such as our bad tempers. Feeling Hulk-ish lately?
- Falling. You got something you need to let go off?
- Feeling stuck. Feeling stuck?
- Murder. Don’t panic if you’re suddenly the victim in a CSI- like case. It actually just means you’re letting go of the past to make way for new beginnings...or that you’re watching too much CSI.
For more, Anna Jaskolka has a book titled Teen Dreams and What They Mean. And Molly Mann describes vivid dreams and scary nightmares in more detail at Seven Common Dreams.
Have you ever wondered, how magicians make a woman disappear in mere seconds?
Have you ever wondered, how magicians escape in a container of water locked, with their hands
cuffed?
Have you wondered how they LEVITATE?
This week, our feature post will explore into the depths of magic and its many secrets and mysteries.
So stay tuned to Secret Wanderings!
Boo yah!
Have you ever wondered, how magicians escape in a container of water locked, with their hands
cuffed?
Have you wondered how they LEVITATE?
This week, our feature post will explore into the depths of magic and its many secrets and mysteries.
So stay tuned to Secret Wanderings!
Boo yah!
Trying to pronounce the title?Don’t be yourself up; it took me several tries before I could do it.
This post is about a fascinating book that has as many mysteries surrounding it as UFOs. If you have read the book ‘Rule of Four’ by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, you would recognize this book as it is the featured text in the gripping novel.
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a D
ream, from Greek hypnos, ‘sleep’, eros, ‘love’,
and mache, ‘fight’) is a romance by Francesco Colonna and a famous example of early printing.
First published in Venice, 1499, in an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style,
Hypnerotomachia P
oliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which Poliphilo pursues his love Polia through a dreamlike landscape, and is at last reconciled with her by the Fountain of Venus.
The original title of the book is 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, ubihumana omnia non nisi so-mnium esse ostendit, at-que obiter plurimascitu sanequamdigna com-memo-rat' (HA! You think the simplified version was hard, try this. I surrender!)
Reading this book make me wonder how people lived their lives in the earlier day, and added to that works from those times are full of wonder and quite frankly the language is beautiful!
The text of the book is written in a bizarre Latinate Italian, full of words coined based on Latin and Greek roots without explanation. The book, however, also includes words from the Italian language, as well as illustrations including Arabic and Hebrew words; Colonna also invented new languages when the ones available to him were inaccurate. (It also contains some uses of Egyptian hieroglyphs, but they are not authentic.)
The book has long been sought after as one of the most beautiful incunabula ever printed. The typography is famous for its quality and clarity. It is also the most curious of books ever published.
The illustrations are perhaps the best part of the book; delicate and evocative, they depict scenes from Poliphilo's adventures, or the architectural features over which the text rhapsodizes, in a simultaneously stark and ornate line art style which perfectly integrates with the type. These images are also interesting because they shed light on what people in the Renaissance fancied about the alleged æsthetic qualities of Greek and Roman antiquities.
Until this day there are still undiscovered mysteries surrounding the book….
Several Facts about Colonna’s Book
- The psychologist Carl Jung admired the book, believing the dream images presaged his theory of archetypes.
- In the 2004 novel The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, two students try to decode the mysteries of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili.
- Umberto Eco's 2004 novel The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana features a protagonist whose doctoral thesis was written on the Hypnerotomachia.
- The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili is one of the most unreadable books ever published.
- The overall composition of text and image into a harmonious whole, which allows the eye to slip back and forth from textual description and corresponding visual representation with the greatest of ease – a rarity even today.
Links you might wanna check out:
The PDF version of the book in its original form can be found here
More info on the book and its mysteries here
You can find an audio of part of the book here
Here is an anime music video (which was an entrant in the Manifest 2008 AMV awards!) based on the concept of the book
and you can download the full video here
Doodles are inevitable, whether you’re in class, at work, or just plain bored. Here are the secrets behind some of your works of “art”- more specifically, what they say about you.
Flowers- You’re maturing emotionally; want a quiet lifestyle; warm and sensitive; willing to help others in need.
Butterflies: Resemble freedom and happiness; you’re about to go through an important change in your life; delicate but strong.
Faces: If you doodle a good looking face, it shows that you desire to be more attractive than you think you are now; thin lips mean you’re worried; a smiling face means you want to communicate.
There’re many more which we’ll feature another time. Meanwhile here are some interesting things about doodles.
Did you know?
- Girls in love often draw daisies and roses when they’re thinking of their future husbands. Well, next time I’ll be sure to throw my doodle paper away before anyone sees it.
- If your doodles take up a whole page, you have high self-esteem. You’re more insecure about yourself if you use up only a small corner. Maybe doodling on smaller paper is a good idea.
- Light shading in doodles shows that you’re sensitive; heavier strokes show that you can get aggressive. Advice to guys: Use cheap pencils.
Don’t hold this to be absolutely true. It’s just a little fun. =)
Flowers- You’re maturing emotionally; want a quiet lifestyle; warm and sensitive; willing to help others in need.
Butterflies: Resemble freedom and happiness; you’re about to go through an important change in your life; delicate but strong.
Faces: If you doodle a good looking face, it shows that you desire to be more attractive than you think you are now; thin lips mean you’re worried; a smiling face means you want to communicate.
There’re many more which we’ll feature another time. Meanwhile here are some interesting things about doodles.
Did you know?
- Girls in love often draw daisies and roses when they’re thinking of their future husbands. Well, next time I’ll be sure to throw my doodle paper away before anyone sees it.
- If your doodles take up a whole page, you have high self-esteem. You’re more insecure about yourself if you use up only a small corner. Maybe doodling on smaller paper is a good idea.
- Light shading in doodles shows that you’re sensitive; heavier strokes show that you can get aggressive. Advice to guys: Use cheap pencils.
Don’t hold this to be absolutely true. It’s just a little fun. =)
Hey there everyone. I'm here to share a poem I wrote sometime last year. Hope you like it :)
01.
We used to keep our wishes
in glass jars
to save them for later.
We stored them on the shelf in your office.
Your cat knocked mine over
and it splintered into eleven shards.
I cleaned it up and replaced it with an
empty
identical one
and I never told you.
07.
We would sit on your back porch and
peer into your yard at
the fireflies, little flittering orbs of orangey-yellow,
and you’d say how they were like small
specks of the sun, glowing in the black of night.
Sometimes you’d call me your firefly.
03.
We shared our dreams with
each other, and yours would usually leave me with
my own nightmares.
You told me that once you had a dream that you cut me open
and my ribs were ivory and my lungs were crystal
and you’d chipped away at my bones and smashed my organs with your fist
just to claim my heart,
but in the end there had been nothing but a hollow mass of rotten black.
I cried myself to sleep that night, feeling like maybe
my ribs were too tight
and my lungs were too small.
09.
We’d lie on the shaggy rug on your
bedroom floor,
exchanging nothing but whispers and secrets
and kissing not lips but collarbones and fingertips.
You would exhale into the shell of my ear,
your breath cold and vacant like the sound of the ocean
in a seashell,
except much weaker
and less eternal.
05.
We decided that our favorite color
would be green, because green is the color of
bliss
and sin
and your cucumber-glazed eyes.
You drew vines on my ankle with emerald marker,
telling me that my skin was the prettiest canvas.
They’re still there, wrapped around my leg like
strangling choking killing restraints.
11.
I’m laying on top of my mattress, clutching
your wish jar against my chest,
and wondering what had been in there before I’d unscrewed the top
and dumped it out my window.
A firefly lands on my pinky finger, and instead
of sunset-orange, it’s glowing a pallid jade.
Glass Jars by Shaqyl
We used to keep our wishes
in glass jars
to save them for later.
We stored them on the shelf in your office.
Your cat knocked mine over
and it splintered into eleven shards.
I cleaned it up and replaced it with an
empty
identical one
and I never told you.
07.
We would sit on your back porch and
peer into your yard at
the fireflies, little flittering orbs of orangey-yellow,
and you’d say how they were like small
specks of the sun, glowing in the black of night.
Sometimes you’d call me your firefly.
03.
We shared our dreams with
each other, and yours would usually leave me with
my own nightmares.
You told me that once you had a dream that you cut me open
and my ribs were ivory and my lungs were crystal
and you’d chipped away at my bones and smashed my organs with your fist
just to claim my heart,
but in the end there had been nothing but a hollow mass of rotten black.
I cried myself to sleep that night, feeling like maybe
my ribs were too tight
and my lungs were too small.
09.
We’d lie on the shaggy rug on your
bedroom floor,
exchanging nothing but whispers and secrets
and kissing not lips but collarbones and fingertips.
You would exhale into the shell of my ear,
your breath cold and vacant like the sound of the ocean
in a seashell,
except much weaker
and less eternal.
05.
We decided that our favorite color
would be green, because green is the color of
bliss
and sin
and your cucumber-glazed eyes.
You drew vines on my ankle with emerald marker,
telling me that my skin was the prettiest canvas.
They’re still there, wrapped around my leg like
strangling choking killing restraints.
11.
I’m laying on top of my mattress, clutching
your wish jar against my chest,
and wondering what had been in there before I’d unscrewed the top
and dumped it out my window.
A firefly lands on my pinky finger, and instead
of sunset-orange, it’s glowing a pallid jade.
Suddenly I don’t like green anymore.
What?
Basically a stone structure constructed more than 5000 years ago in
How?
There are so many questions! How was the Stonehenge built? How did those primitive inhabitants shift these stones (some weighing to more than 50 tonnes)?
Note: 50 tonnes is equivalent to 4 and a half full grown Asian elephants! =)
Well, to start off, was it man made, or was it built or formed through a rare natural occurrence?
Shot right down! Studies have shown that it’s impossible for these rocks to form in such a formation. Besides, these rocks have been proven to be from an area called Marlborough Downs in North Wiltshire located 30 km away from the Stonehenge site!
So that debunks the natural occurrence notion but leaves us with the question: how did these folks carry more than 60 rocks (some weighing 50,000 kg) across 30 km of country and stand them upright in their spot?
Transportation of stones
Experts say that firstly, the community back then may have built huge rafts (yes it boggles my mind) and transported it using the Avon River located 2km from the site. More than about 100 men were needed to move each 50-ton stone, with it resting on a sledge which rolled over tree trunks. It could also be that they decided to move it during winter which made it easier to transport the stones across the snow and ice. Ingenius!
Why?
Many believe that the
Experts say that the
Others say that it was a meeting place for the leaders of tribes, place of worship or even a sacrificial site, since ancient headless skeletons were found buried in the Henge.
All in all, we can only make calculated guesses, but how the inhabitants of such a primitive age manage to build such a structure with such precise calculations of the summer solstice remains a mystery. There are no written records of the cultures which built them. Therefore, this will forever remain as...The Secret of the Stonehenge.
Videos, links and more!
Mystery of Society: National Geographic decodes the society which built of stonehenge.
For more information on Stonehenge, click on the link below!
www.nationalgeographic.com/history/.../stonehenge.html
Selamat Hari Raya to those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays to those who don't. =)
This week, our feature post will be about nature's secrets so be sure to keep reading. And don't forget to keep anonymously (your choice) sharing your secrets in the c box.
Pleasure.
This week, our feature post will be about nature's secrets so be sure to keep reading. And don't forget to keep anonymously (your choice) sharing your secrets in the c box.
Pleasure.
