As you know, here at Passy World we love photography, (as much as we love the band Kiss), and so this week we decided to take a look at some funny and amazing compilations of photographs. So let's get straight into it.
Here is our first Funny pictures compilation directly from You Tube.
Here is another random compilation of some funny pictures, with a bit of an animal theme this time:
The following pictures are more in the amazing category, rather than the outright funny category:
Okay, to finish off here is a bizarre set of video clips and pictures that are a bit out there, but might be funny.
Finally, a photoshopped masterpiece featuring a Baby Shrek who is one of our favorites:
Image Source: http://babyphoto360.com
So that's it for this week, smile and say "cheese", and we hope you've had a good one.
Steve Vai is certainly a master supremo of Guitar Solos, but how does he produce such fretboard magic?
Playing guitar solos is a matter of using a scale (or set of specific notes) that matches up with the chords being played at the time. These scales are often called "Blues Scales" or "Pentatonic Scales".
Certain groups of notes from the scale sound good together, and these little groups are often called "Licks" or "Riffs". To make the solo expressive, there also needs to be plenty of string bends, as well as Pull Offs and Hammer Ons.
The following web page gives a great overview of Lead Guitar Soloing, and also has some great links to other sites that complement this information. This Guitar Guide by Dan Cross at About.com is excellent, and we really recommend that people use it:
First up a quick overview of the five positions of the A minor Pentatonic Scale. (We will cover the pentatonic scale in an upcoming post, and probably should have done it before this post (oops). Research it yourself on Google and YouTube, because there are endless videos and guitar tabs about it that will show you exactly what to do).
Here is a great little 5 minute guitar lesson that shows how to do three basic licks in the A minor blues scale, and then link them together to form part of a solo.
Here is a great video from Marty from Next Level Guitar, who is a favourite online guitar teacher of ours here at Passy World.
And here is Part 2 of Marty's great intro to playing Lead Guitar. Part 1 is the previous video we watched just above this one in the post.
The next few videos are not great picture quality, but are of Korean girls punching out some pretty amazing solos on Lead Guitar.
This first one is very jazzy, and has a great setup for the sound on the guitar.(Obviously classic Larry Carlton music, and played brilliantly).
This next one might be the same Korean girl, (it is hard to tell, but we do know her name is "Su", and guys on YouTube have proposed marriage to her), but the funk playing and soloing is nothing short of perfect. Again, just love the tone of the guitar sound, classic strat funk style).
And here is that same girl Su playing a Dame's Mind 700 guitar in a classic Blues style, that personifies laid back blues guitar soloing to a T.
Finally here is an awesome video that has had over 1 million views on YouTube where Brodie Cumming links together 100 famous guitar riffs. This is great to see how versatile and endless the world of guitar playing is. He has chosen each riff so well, and how he can remember them all and play them so fluently in the correct order without any mistakes is utterly amazing.
If you want to see a song list of these 100 Riffs then go to this page on Brodie's website:
(So if you want the neighbours to think that you are a regular guitar virtuoso then open up your window and play Brodie's YouTube video as loud as you can. That will amaze the socks off them! Too bad when they ask you to come up with the real goods later on!).
Hope the information in this post starts leading you towards some great lead guitar soloing.
We are finishing off the week here at Passy World by becoming extremely animated. Not so much by jiggling around and being filled with excitement, but more in terms of sharing some very interesting animations that we discovered on You Tube recently.
Here are a couple of very clever animated videos from the same guy, who is a Mathematics lecturer in the USA.
Now and then he plays these practical jokes on his class, and the filmed results end up on YouTube.
First up we have a trick video he made for Halloween:
This next trick video was for April Fool's Day and has some very clever shadow animating in it:
Brian Reagan Animations
This guy does great basic cartoon animated stand up comedy type routines. He is a definite favorite here at Passy World.
Here is one about the terror of Spelling Bees.
Here is another excellent Brian Reagan clip about the trauma of going through Educational processes:
And another classic Brian Regan clip all about the trauma of kid's Party Games:
Epic Fail
Epic Fails are a very popular search item on the web at the moment. Another type of animation we love here at Passy World are Lego stop frames. Here is a short Lego stop frame animation about someone having a bit of a failure kind of day:
Hope your week was free of any epic fails, and let's all start getting a bit over-animated in readiness for another great weekend!
This update takes a red hot look at the History of the World, as seen through the beauty of Sand Sculptures.
Each summer they have a Sand Sculptures Exhibit next to the beach at Frankston, which is a coastal town about an hour out of Melbourne.
This year's exhibit is about "Great Moments in the History of the World", as per this sign at the start of the exhibit.
The sand used is a square uniform size grained brickies sand, and is not clay. It is heavier than beach sand which has rounded uneven grains and does not stick together nearly as well as the Brickie's sand. You can even get your hands dirty at the exhibit and have a professional sculptor show you how to create your first artistic piece of sand castle magic.
Twenty one sculptors from around the world were involved with this year's sculpting, and it took them three weeks to complete the exhibit. It contains over 3000 tonnes of sand, and so the site had to be specially engineered for the creek banks behind the exhibit to support such a heavy mass.
The following Wondershare Slideshow contains 40 photos taken at the Sand Sculptures Exhibit at Frankston.
When you get through the whole show, the last picture should be of the US President Barach Obahma. If you missed any pictures then click on the arrow when the slideshow ends.
Note that we can click on the bottom of the slideshow on the "Manual Play" option at any time. We can then advance through the photos one by one at our own pace. This allows us to stop for longer on the photos that we really like, and quickly bypass the ones that we are not interested in.
(Push the Play button arrow below if the slideshow is not already running).
We were fortunate enough to be able to interview one of the actual sculptors, who was running some free classes on the basics of sculpting. Her name is Natasha, and she is Russian but lives locally in Frankston. She travels around the world doing sculpting, and is going to be in Germany for a big exhibit later this year.
The interview is in two parts. Since she could tell I was a complete novice, (and it was getting close to morning tea break), our project was a simple one involving making a couple of donuts.
Here is the first part of the interview with Natasha:
(It may take a minute or two to load in and start playing. Mouse on and off the clip to get video and volume controls available).
And here is the continuation of the above interview with Natasha:
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Here is a picture of the nearly finished donuts, (before we added the icing and cinnamon sugar :)
This is the United Kingdom (England) sculpture that Natasha made for the exhibit. The detail in the wall mural is amazing, and the Double-Decker Bus, Big Ben, and Lion are fantastic also.
The second sculpture which Natasha worked on for the exhibit is the following Modern Day Inventions piece. (Both sculptures took around 10 long days each to complete).
It shows the Singer sewing machine, through to the electric guitar, and handheld computing devices.
So that's it for sand sculpting for this year, and we will definitely cover future exhibits at Frankston on the Passy World website.
If there is any sculpting on in your part of the world, be sure to get along and visit because it is amazing what the artists can produce from one of our most basic earthly materials.
This week we've decided to go all out geeky and look at some mathematics and puzzles that will really sharpen your wits up.
All right for starters, here is a little warm up exercise in the form of a very tricky little riddle:
Now let's get into a bit of good old mathematics. Here is a golden oldie from the early days of Television. But it is still an absolute winner today. Here it is, compliments of Abbot and Costello:
Here are a couple of consecutive kiddy-safe Maths Jokes:
Q: Why couldn't the blonde write the number ELEVEN ? A: She didn't know what ONE came first...
And moving right along from the number 11, here is the number 12 along with its story:
The number twelve walks into a bar and asks the barman for a pint of beer.
"Sorry I can't serve you," states the barman.
"Why not?!" asks the number twelve, getting agitated, with some loud anger in his voice.
"Because You're under 18," replies the barman.
Time to add a bit of music into the mix.
What you Know about Math ?
Well this hip rapster minute and a half video will fill in all the gaps in your current knowledge.
And that was so good, we can't bear NOT to see the Part 2 Sequel, and so here it is:
Here is a challenging mathematical problem and its fascinating solution:
An Indian chief had three wives, each of whom was pregnant. The first gave birth to a boy. The chief was so elated he built her a teepee made of deer hide. A few days later, the second gave birth, also to a boy. The chief was very happy. He built her a teepee made of antelope hide. The third wife gave birth a few days later, but the chief kept the details a secret. He built this one a two story teepee, made out of a hippopotamus hide. The chief then challenged the tribe to guess what had occurred.
Many tried, unsuccessfully. Finally, one young brave declared that the third wife had given birth to twin boys.
"Correct," said the chief. "How did you figure it out?"
The warrior answered, "It's elementary. The value of the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides."
Did you know that in Education Institutions they have "Special Maths" for Actors ? Here is a basic three minute video about the current syllabus:
Now some people on TV are not actors, but merely everyday people trying to do some relative sizes maths.
Some people fail miserably at making such mathematical comparisons, as per this unfortunate contestant:
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Here is some real interesting Business Math that you would not have learned at High School:
Forget about Probability Theory, here is the real gin on the chances of a man ever winning an argument:
And finally, one more magical "Millionaire Moment" :
Image Source: http://i.ytimg.com
Hope your week has not been too puzzling and added up to a good final result!
In the previous blog post "Making an iframe Webpage" we learned how to set up a web page that contained a scrollable window into another web page.
We now want to extend this single iframe into a series of iframe pages that all link to each other through the use of a "Next Page" button. This involves making a standard template page. From the template we then make pages for each site we want to iframe into. We also create a "Next Page" button, and then set this up to link the series of pages together.
Here is a set of detailed instructions on how to make a next Page button and then link together several iframe webpages to appear one after each other.
If you would like to have your own full size copy of this PDF, then simply click the save disk icon button on the PDF viewer, and you should be able to save it to your own hard disk.
Alternatively, you can view or save the full size PDF by clicking the link below:
Using iframes is a great way to connect somebody else's webpage into your own one through a scrollable viewing window. We can do this on a Blog by adding the following HTML code:
And as you can see, this produces a window on our Blog post here, where we can view the foreign website without having to leave our current page.
Now let's suppose we want to do this on a normal HTML web page, rather than on a blog post.
For example on our "Passy World" site, that we have been developing step by step, we now want to make a page that iframes into our "Passy's World of ICT Blog".
Here is a set of detailed instructions on how to make an iframe within an existing HTML webpage. This is a great way of bringing other web pages into our site.
(This PDF document is actually inside an iframe right here on this Blog Post).
If you would like to have your own full size copy of this PDF, then simply click the save disk icon button on the PDF viewer, and you should be able to save it to your own hard disk.
Alternatively, you can view or save the full size PDF by clicking the link below:
Alright then. The next step is to extend the iframe into a series of iframe pages that all link to each other through the use of a "Next Page" button. This will be covered in our very next Blog Post.
