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Making a Bobble Head

With the tradition of “Making a…” photologs on [d]online, Mike and I decided to try making our own Papier-mâché Halloween Bobble Heads.

The process was pretty straight-forward:

  1. Create a form with chicken wire
  2. Cover the form with masking tape
  3. Cover that with papier-mâché strips
  4. Build up the details with more papier-mâché
  5. Paint with spraypaint
  6. Cut out the mouth and add teeth
  7. Detail with tempora paint

I think it came out pretty nice. You can see the skull for my skeleton and the pumpkin for Mike’s Headless Horseman costume.

I’ll let you know how the neighborhood kids receive it after trick-or-treating on Friday evening.

Other Photologs:

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Trello Bookmarklet

Trello

Prefer the previous linear layout of Trello cards over the new layout? You can use a bookmarklet to inject styles into the DOM, reverting the layout to one wide column. Just create a new bookmark in your favorite browser’s bookmark bar and paste the following code for the link.

javascript:(function(){var style = document.createElement('style'); style.innerHTML = 'header ~ div[class] { display: block; overflow-y: auto !important; } header ~ div[class] main, header ~ div[class] main div, header ~ div[class] aside, header ~ div aside div { max-width: 100% !important; width: auto !important}'; document.head.appendChild(style);})();

 

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Clean URL Bookmarklet

Remove UTM tracking parameters from Chrome addresses before sharing.

Sick of manually removing the UTM tracking parameters from links you copy and paste in Chrome? Here’s a nifty little trick to automate the process.

In your Bookmarks bar, click “Add Page” and enter the Name (e.g., “CLEAN”). Then paste the following code into the URL:

javascript:(function(){let u=new URL(location.href);['utm_placement','user_id','utm_source','utm_medium','utm_campaign','utm_term','utm_content'].forEach(k=>u.searchParams.delete(k));prompt('Clean URL:', u.toString());})();

This will copy the URL and strip out the UTM parameters and present a prompt of the cleaned URL for you to copy and paste into messages, emails, or social media without the tracking data.

Pretty cool, eh?

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New York City 1978, by George Wright

Street Shots of New York City in 1978
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
Street Shots of New York City in 1978
Street Shots of New York City in 1978

 

In 1978, George Wright was in New York, staying with a friend on the city’s Lower East Side. “New York in 1978 was still referred to as ‘Fear City’,” Wright recalled. “The NewYork Ripper was still at large and the Son of Sam mass murderer had only recently been apprehended. On every pillar on every subway station platform was scratched the word ‘PRAY’. Comatose bodies littered The Bowery, porn shows were ubiquitous in Times Square and the city was bankrupt.”

(via flashbak.com)

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Emoji Paintings, by ND Stevenson

“The Creation of Adam,” Michelangelo
“Girl with a Pearl Earring,” Johannes Vermeer
“The Persistence of Memory,” Salvador Dalí
“American Gothic,” Grant Wood
“The Son of Man,” René Magritte
“The Kiss,” Gustav Klimt

This artist recreated famous paintings using only emoji. Any you recognize?

Stevenson: I cannot tell you how or why, but at some point a few years back I discovered that Instagram Stories not only allows you unlimited emojis, it ALSO allows you to enlarge them to an apparently infinite degree. Thus, a very strange new hobby was born. As far as I can tell, I am the inventor of this art form, since I am a genius and everyone else has a life.

Via imfineimfine.com

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Porcelain Beauty, by Yulia Taits

Porcelain Beauty
Porcelain Beauty
Porcelain Beauty
Porcelain Beauty
Porcelain Beauty
Porcelain Beauty

Continuing Yulia Taits’ photo project showcasing people with albinism, “Porcelain Beauty 1” and “Porcelain Beauty 2,” they decided to delve into the study of artificial intelligence to help them fulfill her dream of expanding the project’s scope to include people of all ages, races and nationalities.

See all the AI-generated images on their site:
yuliataitsphoto.com