Shawn Sauerwine

Five Personal Development Myths

Self-help and personal development are big business, but lasting change doesn’t come as quickly and easily as we’ve been led to believe.<p>Would you like to improve your relationships with people? How about adopting better work-life balance? Of course we’d all like to improve some aspect of our lives, …

The Exquisite Corpse Dungeon 2

The Exquisite Corpse Dungeon is a tricky project, because so much of it takes place behind the scenes. Even the contributors don’t get to see the …

This Amazing Photo Process is Called Gumoil Printing

Photographer Anna Ostanina of St. Petersburg, Russia, has spent years working with alternative photo printing techniques. Her favorite is one called …

Online fossil hunters to help comb Kenyan desert

<b>Members of the public are being invited to help hunt for fossils in the Kenyan desert, in an online citizen science initiative called Fossilfinder.</b><p>Volunteers will sift one million images from the arid Turkana Basin, a key area for fossils of early human ancestors.<p>These photos were taken by …

“On Sunday afternoon, Hendrix played a free concert in the Panhandle. Jefferson Airplane brought the band’s flatbed truck, already set up with their gear, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience initiated the Summer of Love." From ‘The Haight’, photo by © Jim Marshall Photography LLC

The 7 Strategies For Getting Past Gatekeepers

Do you know how many people approach me every week with article pitches? Neither do I, but the number is huge. However, this salesman—a first-time author—managed to use the strategies in his book to get successfully through to me, a busy CEO with a part-time unpaid gig writing articles about …

Introduction to Translucency and Blending Layers in Photoshop

Apr 20 0<p>On this basic video tutorial by Lynda, Adobe expert Deke McClelland demonstrates translucency as one of the benefits of using layers in …

Creative Kitchen Sink Designs You Never Knew Were Available

Some things become stereotypes and they’re the reason why you find yourself stuck when trying to come up with an original interior design for your …

Scared Of Failing? Ask Yourself These 6 Fear-Killing Questions

Warren Berger, author of A More Beautiful Question, collected the provocative questions top designers, tech innovators, and entrepreneurs ask themselves to spark creativity.<p><i>[Editor’s note: The following is the first in a three-part series of posts adapted from Warren Berger’s new book,</i> A More …

Braided Doormat

Starting at one end of rope, form a loose knot as shown; leave a 30-inch tail on right side and slack on left side. Gently pull down on loops.<p>Flip loops to left as shown. Lift the first loop and cross it over the second.<p>Using tail end, weave as shown.<p>Using slack end, weave diagonally toward bottom …

diy project: erik’s recycled wine bottle torch

this clever outdoor diy idea comes from erik anderson of gerardot & co.- a creative branding and design agency in indianapolis. erik was kind enough …

Elsie’s dream (DIY) light fixture

I'm so excited to finally share one of my favorite DIY adventures in our current home! If you're a crazy detail person you might remember that we …

Try This: Fabric Lined Built-In Shelves

You know those projects that you keep meaning to do, but they end up staying on the to-do list for a near eternity? This project was just that for …

Before & After: Recycled Slate + Branch Table

I used to gravitate toward mid-century furniture, and would have happily filled my home with all those smooth, sleek curves and rounded corners. Now …

Winston Churchill Futurist

<b>Winston Churchill</b> Futurist<p>I can't imagine a current day British Chancellor of the Exchequer being able to describe science and the future as presciently as Winston Churchill does here. Perhaps Germany's Chancellor might have a pretty good stab at it today given that she is a Physicist but Churchill was an out of work aristocrat at the time having lost his job as Chancellor.<p>Churchill published <b>Fifty Years Hence</b> in the early 1930s and he does a surprisingly good job of predicting nuclear energy …

10 paths to painless pizza-making

As you may have noticed, we’re <i>kind of</i> into pizza in the smitten kitchen. I mean, just a little. I can’t help it–in my mind, it combines the best …

Element of the week: fermium

Which element that I've told you about so far is the most boring?<p>This week's element is fermium, a synthetic transuranic actinide with the symbol <b>Fm</b> and atomic number <b>100</b>. Although a group at the Nobel Institute for Physics in Stockholm first reported their discovery of this element, the Berkeley …

Smoky Mountains National Park a hotbed for ginseng poaching

With demand nearly insatiable in Asia and the price reaching $900 or more per pound, the plants are quickly disappearing from the North Carolina park.<p>August 10, 2013|By David Zucchino<p>Plant protection specialist Jim Corbin, left, and District Ranger Joe… (David Zucchino / Los Angeles…)<p>CHEROKEE, N.C. …

free licensed software daily

There are so many things more important than mobile phone in our lives.<p><b>$0.99 ➞ free today</b><p>The LightEaters are coming… because darkness is never</b> …

I want to tell you a very unpleasant truth about climate chan…

I want to tell you a very unpleasant truth about climate change. It's a lot more serious than we've been discussing in public.<p>(Warning the first: This is not going to be a cheerful sort of post. It will, very likely, leave you feeling deeply unsettled. If you do not want this, you should stop reading now.)<p>(Warning the second: This is not a post on which to say "I don't believe climate change is happening!" or "this is a left-wing plot!" or "I don't believe there's adequate proof that humans are …

Battle Buddy

NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily

The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America's largest telecoms …