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Today the Department of Miniature Marvels is exploring the extraordinary work of glass artist Kiva Ford, who uses his background in scientific glassblowing to create astonishingly small beakers, laboratory flasks, cylinders, wine glasses, vases and more. Some of Ford’s miniature glassware is barely an inch tall and contains even smaller glass objects.

“A member of the American Scientific Glassblowers Society, Kiva creates instruments for scientists who require one-of-a-kind designs for various experiments. The same techniques and tools used for scientific equipment also apply to his artistic practice including the miniature works you see here, as well as larger sculptures, and ornate drinkware.”

Visit Kiva Ford’s website or Instagram feed to check out many more images of his marvelous hand-blown glass miniatures, some of which are available for purchase via his Etsy shop.

[via Colossal]

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I LOVE stuff like this!

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Gassssppp. Tiny Greek vases!

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The future of 3D digital actors will be a creepy one, indeed. See more here.

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Sudden urge to move to Norway

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I don’t have time to hate anyone, I either love you or I don’t care at all.

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I’m reading Don Quixote for my world literature class and apparently when it was first published in 1605 it was world-changingly popular, one of the first “popular novels” as we know it today, and there were all sorts of people who were writing and publishing their own unofficial fan-sequels to Don Quixote which was basically the first fan-fiction, and then in 1615 the original author wrote an official sequel in which Don Quixote reads a piece of fanfic about him and sets out on a quest to beat up the author who mischaracterized him

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the 4th wall won’t stop don quixote

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Gilded sunset. More fun mixing matte and shine, inspired by Silver Linings Ceramics.

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Song Of Storms - Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Guitar/Harp Duet)

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Faced with the prospect of receiving dirtification in the makeup chair every morning, Charlize Theron (who plays the rebellious Furiosa) chose another route: She rolled around on the ground.

“When we started the movie, there were all these fancy machines being designed to get the dust on us,” she tells Yahoo Movies, which you can watch in the video above. “Finally, I was just like, ‘Are you guys kidding? I’m going to be here five minutes before we shoot, and I will be rolling in the dirt, and then we will go. They’re like, ‘Really, you’re OK with that?’ It’s like, what’s the difference? Getting the dust from the fancy box or just rolling in the dirt. There’s no difference.”

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You are now imagining Charlize Theron in full Imperator Furiosa gear rolling around in the sand. You are now imagining the rest of the cast following suit like a line of rolling ducklings. You are now imagining her leading them to the top of a huge dune and casting herself off to roll down back to the set, shouting “Weeeeeeeeeeeee!” all the way.

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Well, I am NOW.

dangerous-ladies

This thing we call ”colourblocking” seems a little intimidating at first, but it’s really simple.

Say I have a 3” x 3” square pattern piece. The inner box is the finished area, and the outer area is seam allowance. This is what I need my final pattern piece to look like, regardless of what colour goes where.

But we want to split this into three segments. If we simply cut the pattern in pieces, we’ll lose space to new seams because we didn’t add seam allowances.

What to do?

Cut the pattern piece into its new segments.

Trace these new pieces onto new pattern paper (or tracing paper, or construction paper, or newspaper or whatever and add seam allowance:

Label these however you want to remember where they go, such as ”Square Left, Square Center, Square Right.”

While a square is obviously a lot easier to block than random curves and right angles and whatever, there are basically endless ways to apply it if you take your time. The only rule that really matters is that the “blue” area always stays the same; you’re only adding enough “pink” NEW seam allowance area to support that seam.

There are a whole bunch of applications for this:

So in short:

Make/purchase/acquire/locate your pattern.

Finalize the fit and cut of the pattern without concern for where any of the coloured panels are going. Imagine how you would make the outfit if it were one solid colour, basically.

Once you have finalized your base pattern, cut it apart (or trace yourself off a second one to cut apart!) and add seam allowances where necessary.

Label new pieces accordingly so you know how they reassemble.

Cut + sew new pattern pieces from appropriate fabrics so you have a reassembled piece that fits the original pattern piece despite now being colour blocked!

Sweet, sweet justice. Colourblocking is no sweat to you now.

- Jenn

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tl;dr: Comprehensive Colorblocking tutorial!!

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if you’re working with stretch fabric take extra care that the first seams don’t creep apart when you’re putting everything together. my machine stretches one side more than the other if i don’t watch it.

dangerous-ladies

The fabric stretches on one side more than the other because the feed dogs underneath the presser foot move the bottom layer forward while the other just stretches under the presser foot. While watching it is certainly good, you can eliminate that problem entirely by using a walking foot, which works in tandem with the feed dogs to move the layers of spandex along together, rather than letting the top layer catch against the presser foot. If you don’t have a walking foot, a teflon foot will work too because it lets the fabric slide easier.

Ballpoint and stretch needles can also help curtail this.

- Jenn

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please watch this i am begging you

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linden i have listened to this no less than 10 times u have wrought this ridiculously tasty scourge upon us all

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“Remember that consciousness is power. Consciousness is education and knowledge. Consciousness is becoming aware. It is the perfect vehicle for students. Consciousness-raising is pertinent for power, and be sure that power will not be abusively used, but used for building trust and goodwill domestically and internationally. Tomorrow’s world is yours to build.” - Yuri Kochiyama, Japanese-American activist (May 19, 1921 - June 1, 2014)

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When the homies approve of your music taste..

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There are 9 different shots in this vine 9 This is a six second video and the perspective changes 9 fuxking times ????? That is so many How are they doing this

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hey: to the young ace and/or aro ppl If you realise later that you’re actually not ace/aro, that’s OK. it doesn’t mean that you were lying to anyone, or that your identity was ever invalid orientations can be fluid and you can discover more about yourself as time goes on. the people who said “you’re just too young to know” were still wrong to say that, even if you realise later that you’re not ace/aro. It’s OK. You’re still valid

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colin spacetwinks’ writing tips ‘n tricks (for actually getting writing done, not idea generating):

noisli.com - generates various noises you can use to help sorta keep the busier parts of your mind distracted, which is a big problem for me, i’ve found. has random ‘productivity’ and ‘relaxation’ noise generators, but you can customize them anyway you want. also has white, pink, and brown noise generators

physical notepad/to-do list - writing down my basic goals of what i want to write today (be it an amount of words or specific scenes) helps keep me on task, i dunno about anyone else. and crossing it off gives a great sense of relief

some kind of timer - i like to use a lil bit of the “pomodoro” technique, which says to do things in 25 minute chunks with 5 minute breaks, though i tend to do 45 minute chunks with 15 minute breaks. a physical timer, a downloadable digital timer, or tomato-timer.com, anything’ll do

changing perspective - instead of going “i’m going to write several thousand words today! yeah!”, i try to position things as “i’m gonna write 500 words this hour” and anything more i write than that is gravy. then i do another hour, and another, till i don’t have anymore time for writing that day, or just don’t feel like writing anymore. trying to write 500 chunks to get to 2000 is a lot easier to manage than just “i’m gonna write 2000 words”, believe me