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75Extreme Slingshot Modification, Part 2: Video Series shows the Repeater Slingshot in Action
and if you haven't already seen it, that earlier hub has a complete how-to, do-it-yourself guide on this easy slingshot modification. The mod changes your slingshot into a repeater with a push-button pellet dispenser/magazine, as shown in the top...
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79How to Appreciate Rembrandt's Night Watch
"The Militia Company of Frans Banning Cocq", by Rembrandt, 1642 (also known as "The Night Watch" Two words: In person. If you try to appreciate Rembrandt's painting indirectly, by viewing a photo of it, (such as the jpeg that I've inserted just...
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79Haggard's Hobbit? Allan Quatermain as a Literary Progenitor of Bilbo Baggins: A Different Sort of Anti-Hero
A young J. R. R. Tolkien. This hub was written "back in the day" when Guillermo del Toro was still slated to be the Hobbit movie director. However, the main point of this hub is not so much about the upcoming Hobbit movie, but rather, a comparison...
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72Mastering Artistic Anatomy: Some Wonderful Books
"The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp" by Rembrandt van Rijn Skeletal study by Leonardo da Vinci This Hub is the first of several dedicated to helping you in your quest to draw the human figure. When I look back...
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73Extreme slingshot modification: Turn your slingshot into a rapid-fire repeater using a paintball feeder from a blowgun
This slingshot is equipped with a push-button pellet dispenser mounted to the wrist-brace. For a quick slide-show tutorial, click on the arrow link positioned on this photo.Have you ever wanted a push button ammo dispenser for your slingshot, that...
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73Enter the Trocar
Exploded and assembled views of subcaliber blowgun dart provided with a highly efficient trocar penetrating tip and a streamlined shaft/stabilizer made from a plastic soda straw.A trocar tip may give your...
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74Can't Wait for Stephen King's New Book 11/22/63? Peek into the Witch's Head (PDF or EPUB)
Stephen King's next novel, entitled "11/22/63," will be released on November 8, 2011. At right is the Amazon link, where you will be able to order the book when it is released. In fact, if you JUST CAN'T WAIT, you can even Pre-order the book now...
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68Disturbing Images in Western Art: Goya and Daumier
"Saturn Devouring His Children" by Goya at disturbing images. Take the one above, "Saturn Devouring His Children", by Francisco Goya. One of a dark-themed series done by Goya in his later years, the painting actually adorned a wall of the...
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72How to Paint like the Old Masters?
"The Art of Painting" by Vermeer the question is, did the Old Masters paint like the Old Masters? Maybe not. In the very appropriately titled "The Art of Painting" (see above), by Johannes Vermeer, we are shown a scene of an artist seated at...
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71The Best Kept Secret of Figure Drawing: The Open Session
Figure by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Figure by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. Salvador Dali, in his book 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship , affirmed that even having a bad drawing teacher was better than having none...
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