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Photography tips - How to direct models on a photoshoot
You want to use your friends as models on a photoshoot. Or perhaps you are heading into the world of professional photography. Find out how to get the best out of your models for beautiful photos.
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Photography tips: How to get great photos on your crappy camera
Coax art magic out of your crappy little camera with a few handy photography tips. From force-flash to 'vintage' lomography, you'll be amazed at what your crappy little camera can do!
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Flash fiction!
What is flash fiction? How do you write it? What can you do with it? Who will publish your work? Indulge in flash fiction and follow in the footsteps of Neil Gaiman...
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How to write poetry like John Donne
Poetry exercises: Revered poet John Donne made quips about dildos and possibly invented the first 'your momma' joke. Check our poetry exercise for writing in his inflammatory style.
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How to create a webcomic
Webcomic advice: What do Penny Arcade, PVP and Questionable Content have in common? They're all a webcomic that's made it. These common-sense tips will ensure your webcomic makes it too.
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How to draw comics like Tim Burton
Comic art drawing tips: We show you how to draw in a darkly gothic comic art style echoing the spookycute world of Tim Burton. Bat-terrors not included.
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How to write a haiku
Writing exercises: There's more to haiku that meets the eye. We give you 65 - yes, 65 - creative writing tips for writing haiku as tiny and slender and powerful as a shard of glass, with haiku formats and examples. We're not mucking about.
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How to create an imaginary world
Creative tips: We show you how to create your own imaginary world and become a regular Tolkien. World building tips for writers and artists.
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Improve your mooky memory with mnemonics
Improve your memory: Cell phones and the web remember things for us, but it's better to rely on yourself. Mnemonic mind-tricks can help creative people with untidy minds to actually remember things!
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How to become penpals
Penpals: Build your letter writing and craft skills with foreign penpals - swap crazy sweets with them (be wary of Denmark they have salty liquorice), send them music and artwork... A penpal makes the world a better place. Here's how to become penpals.
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Writer's block
Creative writing: All those who love creative writing eventually encounter the dreaded writer's block. Mistress Geenyus brings you the best creative writing tips out there for curing writer's block - all in 1 article!
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Psychogeography for beginners
Ever felt drawn to strange old warehouses or wondered why people act like robots on their way to work? That's the semi-occult art of psychogeography - finding out how your environment shapes the way you think. It's as easy as poking your nose where it doesn't belong...
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How to start turning your amateur photos into art
Geek World: Happy snapper photos and MySpace posing shots are the first step. Now it's time to start giving your amateur photos the edge. You don't need expensive equipment to have an artistic approach to photography - you just need to start building your artistic eye.
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How to become a Mentat - a human computer
Psychology: Read/seen 'Dune'? We're going to teach you the Mentat technique of problem-solving. Turn yourself into a human computer to achieve impossible aims, from getting the perfect job/boy to writing a novel!
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A quick guide to dream interpretation
Some say dreams are not just a way to make sense of what happened during the day but the means for important messages to reach us; messages that our logical self just doesn't pick up on. So here is a quick guide on reading your night time imaginings using a couple of different methods.
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Face reading, or physiognomy
Symbolism: Physiognomy is the belief that you can look at someone's facial features and get a sneak peak into their personality. You've heard of palm reading - but what about face reading? Read your face!
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Creative magic, Craft & Spirituality
Magic and creativity: How to use arts and crafts to build your own connection with the spiritual world. Why do you think they call it the Craft?
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Beginner's guide to Discordia
Discordian cult: Mookychick has ever been Discordian - a celebration of zen, tolerance, inspiration and the unexpected. Find Eris! Then figure out what to do to her when you've found her. Then become a Discordian Pope!
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Basic photography tips for all
Geek World: Who's been disappointed with the final results of a 'great' photo they've taken? Nobody? Ah. Everybody. With digital cameras you do at least get to delete the bad photos immediately, but as a photography student, Morgane mostly still uses good old film rolls and has to undergo the embarrassment of the teacher looking through all the photos and asking why she's cut everybody's feet off. Here are a few basic photography tips to bear in mind, whether the images you're capturing be arty or personal.
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Your life... as a video game
Opinion: Ever seen a film or played a computer game and had it act like a filter so you see the whole world that way for a few minutes or hours? Liv tells you how to make the most out of playing your life like a video game.
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Meditation exercise - Transcending tack
Meditation exercises: In the art of Zen meditation, one can learn to focus so intensely on the everyday world that the act of focusing, in and of itself, creates its own special sense of transcendence. With the 'transcending tack' meditation exercise you'll begin exploring this type of experience for yourself by focusing on some of the more bizarre aspects of the world in which we live.
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Meditation exercise - The passing parade
Meditation exercise: 
Today you'll focus on inducing a mystical experience by altering your perceptions of the people around you. Pick a crowded location full of strangers: A busy airport, train station or shopping mall will do. Spend anywhere from 1 to 4 hours sitting in one place observing the people milling about. And provided you don't get a sore arse from all that sitting, something rather wonderful will happen.
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Meditation exercise - Unified field
Meditation exercise: Today's meditation exercise looks at the idea that everything might be put together in a much more unified way than we think - and that you might have more in common with a moon, a porcelain dish or your arch enemy than you realise. Onward, child of mystery - it's time for today's meditation!
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The NATO phonetic alphabet
Girl Geek: Charlie, Foxtrot, Tango! Using the NATO phonetic alphabet to spell out your name or address over the phone is a thrill tantamount to espionage. Plus you can create your own code words...
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Practical magic: Make a magical sigil
Working real magic turns your life into an adventure with limitless possibilities. We give you a step-by-step guide to making a sigil - a form of magic that brings you your heart's desire. And all you need is a pencil and paper...
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The iPod Oracle
The tarot was just an innocent pack of playing cards until it started to be used as a means of divination. Deborah Taylor believes that the iPod could go the same route, and shows you how to turn your iPod or mp3 player into a divinatory tool you'll love and use forever.
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A beginner's guide to dream interpretation
Dreams are stories expressed in a language from your own experience, says Caroline X. You might not be able to understand them readily but if you keep a dream diary and learn about your own personal dream meanings, some realisation might start to dawn....
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MEDITATION FOR LAZY LADIES
Think meditation involves too much ommmming and you can't dedicate a whole 20 minutes a day to mental health? Don't worry! There are meditationy things we can do every day that are easy and won't draw too many stares...
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Florigraphy - the language of flowers!
Florigraphy! From Druids to japanese hana kotoba to the Victorian language of flowers, we look at the beauty of flower symbolism and learn how to make a nosegay or tussie-mussie.
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Internet memes
Every now and then, some pointless phrase or webpage (a 'meme') will infect a web surfer and start to jump from one mailbox to another. The REAL trick is to start your own. Mookychick shows you how!
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