Man Made DIY

Age Maps is a series by photographer Bobby Neel Adams in which he juxtaposes two photos of the same individual at two different times in their lives. And he does it all in analog, no Photoshopping involved. "For each subject, Adams takes a childhood photo and a current photo, prints them at the same proportions, tears them in half, and glues the halves together. He says that this is to 'telescope the slow process of aging into a single picture,' and that 'a jump of time is established at the tear.' "

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If you've ever had an expertly cooked, dry-aged steak at a restaurant, you can certainly tell the difference between that experience and those you can buy at the grocery store and cook at home. Dry aging removes up to 25% of the water, leaving behind all the flavorful compounds and concentrating the beef-y flavor.

Turns out, you can apply the same that steak houses use, at home, turning your supermarket cut into a thing of wonder.   … read more

I'm no celeb-o-phile, but for some reason, it's fun to look at pictures of famous people when they were young. Not like yearbook pictures of a-list celebs, but, like, youthful art photos and headshots of established actors. Part of it must be, for those of us born after their movie careers started, it's cool to see that the people that you wanna hang out with now were probably awesome back in the day, too. 

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It can take weeks or months and several wash cycles to take a stiff, new printed t-shirt into that just worn enough, soft favorite. Thankfully, the team at Found Item Clothing, who recreate iconic t-shirts spied in classic cult movies and TV shows, have been testing a few methods to age things nicely.

The new Bosch VitaFresh refrigerators work so well, they've kept prehistoric meat fresh for the last 65 million years. At least, I think that's what's going on in this write-up at Ypsilon2 (sorry, my Portuguese ain't so hot).