DIY, How To, Make Anything

The site for today is quite popular among "Do It Yourselfers ", but is pretty much unknown to the rest of the population. The site is Instructables.com and has tons of user submitted tutorials on how to make just about anything. These projects posted on the site range from very simple household items to complex electronics projects. This website is a paradise for people who like to tinker with everything, but it doesn't stop there. For example there is a food section where people share interesting recipes such as "How To make Plum BBQ sauce and syrup". I have been a member of this site for a while now and I use it mainly for making at home photography gear and anything else I find.

To top it off, two days ago there was a contest on the site where a picture was posted up and people could submit a funny caption. The editor chose the winner and it was ME. YAY! I won a Spy camera that attaches to your sunglasses. They have these contests randomly so keep an eye out. My Winning contest Entry.

There is a lot to cover on this site, so let me know if you find something cool to make. With a little bit of ingenuity and skills you could make something really really cool. Like this computer keyboard.

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Blind photographers

I am a decent photographer and so are the group of people on the site I will share with you today. The only difference is they can't see because they're blind. BlindPhotographers.org is a site which showcases galleries of photos taken by some very talented photographers who are visually impaired. They all come from different backgrounds and have different reasons on how they lost their sight. Some of them can see to a certain degree which ranges from just seeing blobs of colors to only seeing dark and light shadow. This is truly amazing and inspires me as a photographer and as a person. I highly recommend browsing through the photos in their gallery or on flickr. I have no idea as to how they can achieve such awesome photos without really seeing what they are capturing.

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Update!!!!!: Here is a wonderful mini documentary which includes interviews with three of these blind photographers.

Obscura from Damon Stea on Vimeo.

Want Your Photos in a Gallery? Join This Project.

I like to think of myself as a decent photographer and hope for the day that I can have a few prints hanging in a gallery somewhere. Well here's my chance to have 24 pictures in a gallery. kinda. 

Art house Co-op is a great website where artists come together and can participate in organized projects. It is an awesome site to explore and find some fun projects, but going back to the main point of this post, there is a very huge project that anybody can participate in. It is called "A Million Little Pictures" and gives a thousand people the opportunity to fill up a disposable camera with 24 pictures and have them hanging in a gallery (even though it will be next to 23,976 other peoples pictures) . Just go and sign up for the project and you will receive a disposable camera in the mail, then go out and take pictures of pretty much anything that documents your life. It costs $18 bucks to join, which is not bad considering a disposable camera is around 9 dollars and the other nine gets your pictures hanging in an art gallery. Once satisfied, have the prints developed as 4x6 prints and send back to the project organizers. check the site for all the details. 

I've already signed up and am proud to say California has the most sign ups meaning that we get to host one of the exhibitions.

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