As I was struggling to draw people that actually looked like people, I created a website that compares a hand drawn portrait of a person to a photo. Instead of rapidly looking back and forth at the end to see how I did, I ended up making some software that automatically puts the two pictures together and blends them back and forth. This way you can see small deviations in your drawing and areas...
I remember Sainte-Augustine by his quote "Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet" and it would be interesting to see how a hedonistic turned into one of the most famous and revered characters of the Church. Dante's Divine Comedy tells about the scholastic tradition and how the leading thinkers were introducing pagan thought into their discourses. Petrarch book shows the start of the Renaissance and how current human thought can add to secular knowledge.
I constantly record myself playing small riffs on the guitar and have collected a few hundred tracks. Instead of letting these ideas collect the electronic equivalent to dust I created a website where you can upload small (20s) portions of a start of an idea and people can vote on which one they like the best. The site is at http://www.buskering.com. The point of it is that you as a musician...
Checkout a neighbourhood sharing startup myself and a great team are working on at Ottawa Startup Weekend. The basic idea is neighbourhoods want to share and create a community around the space they take care of. We let neighbourhoods share high priced items like snow blowers, lawnmowers, gardening supplies, camping gear etc. with their neighbours in return for borrowing their stuff. Take a...