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Mother of four builds home from scratch after watching YouTube tutorials
CBS News ^ | 1/12/2017 | Christina Capatides

Posted on 01/24/2017 2:45:46 PM PST by simpson96

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Cara and her four kids, in front of the house they built.

1 posted on 01/24/2017 2:45:46 PM PST by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Awesome!


2 posted on 01/24/2017 2:50:10 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: simpson96

There are tutorials for just about anything on youtube.


3 posted on 01/24/2017 2:50:33 PM PST by glasseye
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To: simpson96

Great job!


4 posted on 01/24/2017 2:51:13 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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Faced with the overwhelming task of constructing a house with their own hands, Brookins and her family turned to an unlikely source: YouTube.

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Unlikely? Not any more. YouTube is the go to source to watch hands on demonstrations on how to build or do anything.

Beautiful home, BTW. I just hope her idiot ex doesn’t come around and screw things up.


5 posted on 01/24/2017 2:51:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
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To: simpson96

More power to her and the kids.

Youtube has probably done more to educate people than PBS and the rest educational broadcasting.

I’ve learned tons of stuff and gotten a lot of good ideas. I wish some people could learn to hold a camera steady or use a tripod though.


6 posted on 01/24/2017 2:52:07 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: simpson96

There is no way that the picture you posted is not a PHOTOSHOPPED PHOTO.

First thing, easily noticed, is that the LIGHTING is completely off.


7 posted on 01/24/2017 2:52:31 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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That was my initial reaction, as well. There is no way those people are standing on the lawn in front of that house.


8 posted on 01/24/2017 2:54:24 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: UCANSEE2

The photo is from the article, not from the poster.


9 posted on 01/24/2017 2:55:17 PM PST by NEMDF
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To: simpson96
Self-Help housing via the internet
No need to look back - only to the future !
..and I'll bet she swings a mean hammer now !
10 posted on 01/24/2017 2:55:47 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt (Muslim & Spanish migrants are like Kudzu--> designed to overload the system= Cloward-Piven)
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[ Youtube has probably done more to educate people than PBS and the rest educational broadcasting.

I’ve learned tons of stuff and gotten a lot of good ideas. I wish some people could learn to hold a camera steady or use a tripod though. ]

the internet is just as much of a LEAP in information freedom and personal enlightenment as the invention of the printing press, think about it!

I think as some point Virtual reality + The Internet will lead to an Education revolution that promises to completely replace the failing public education system.


11 posted on 01/24/2017 2:55:53 PM PST by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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+1


12 posted on 01/24/2017 2:55:58 PM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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To: simpson96

Are you a dummy with money who regularly gets cleaned out by sketchy mechanics..?

Just look up your problem on YouTube, order the cheap Chinese parts from Ebay, and fix it YOURSELF for 90% off.

Some of the vids have amazing detail, geared towards slobbering fools.

People are an amazing resource.


13 posted on 01/24/2017 2:56:56 PM PST by gaijin
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To: UCANSEE2

Not so fast buckaroo...Being in the photo buis for some time and trained in portrait photography the old analog way its easy to control your aperture and speed to cause the flash to drop of at or just past the subject .
That is called “Fill Flash” and is something todays digital amateurs know nothing about.


14 posted on 01/24/2017 2:57:52 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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Resouceful AND hot.


15 posted on 01/24/2017 2:59:02 PM PST by Oratam
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My go to source for how to do things.


16 posted on 01/24/2017 3:00:05 PM PST by US_MilitaryRules (I'm not tired of Winning yet! Please, continue on!)
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To: CGASMIA68

PS: It causes the subject(s) to jump out at you like those in the shot were talking about.


17 posted on 01/24/2017 3:00:49 PM PST by CGASMIA68
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To: GraceG

The brick and mortar no thought zone known as public education simply can’t cut it now.

My YT fodder is done I have to admit with the public TV mentality I learned from being in it. The only ones that are remotely instructive are a couple of electrolysis rust removal.


18 posted on 01/24/2017 3:01:08 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: gaijin

Living in an isolated, totally non-ethnic loction, this young girl learned 100% of her dancing from YouTube vids:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgzdDp5qfdI&feature=youtu.be&t=48


19 posted on 01/24/2017 3:01:10 PM PST by gaijin
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To: UCANSEE2; NEMDF

The people standing in front do “pop”, but I doubt it’s photoshopped. I think the photographer used a flash to light up the people in the foreground so they would stand out, while the rest of the scene is “natural” lighting.


20 posted on 01/24/2017 3:01:20 PM PST by simpson96
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