Archive for December, 2008
Poi Basics: Week Five
Posted in Contributors, Recent, Reviews, ShowsWeek Five of our Poi Basics series. Music by Taal Fiza, special LED poi provided by flowtoys.com and special thanks to the Yoga Barn for providing the studio :D
Poi Retreats in Costa Rica - March!
Posted in Contributors, Recent, Reviews, Shows2009-03-01 00:31
2009-03-07 12:31
Etc/GMT
2009-03-01 00:31
2009-03-07 12:31
Etc/GMT
Jeremy at La Escuela Del Sol has invited me to lead poi retreats at their poi/surfing/yoga school in Montezuma, Costa Rica! The January retreats have sold out, so we're planning one more for March 1-7th!
Flights are pretty cheap from many parts of the USA (and even Europe) if you look for them via sidestep.com or Vayama.com. You will fly into the Juan Santamaria International Airport, in San Jose (airport code SJO).
Visuwords - graphical dictionary and thesaurus
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Dictionaries are great, but they are linear in layout, and sometimes you just want words to collide with each other visually in interesting ways. Visuwords ™ uses the Princeton University online dictionary to display terms in graphical relationship with other words forming neural nets. It is a great tool for visualising where words fit in [...]
Woodworking - making a bending iron
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While I successfully used a piece of water pipe and a blow torch for forming the sides of my travel violin, I felt I needed something more reliable for the mandolin. I had read of the possibility of using a heat gun - the sort used to strip paint - to provide a steady heat [...]
Poi Basics: Week Four
Posted in Contributors, Recent, Reviews, ShowsWeek 4 of our Poi Basics series. Music by Taal Fiza, special LED poi provided by flowtoys.com and special thanks to the Yoga Barn for providing the studio :D
The World’s Smartest Mouse
Posted in Contributors, Recent, Reviews, ShowsI found this video on ministryofmanipulation.com and had to share it. If a mouse can make it through such hurdles, maybe we can make it through all our hurdles too? Somehow inspiring!
Steam bike update
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Back in October 2007 I wrote about a little-known steam motorcycle built in 1917 by William Taylor, based on an FN. Thanks to some detective work by one of my readers, an article turned up in Model Engineer Vol 1 no 7 about this very motorcycle, which provided some interesting technical details from someone who [...]