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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 to improve.

Instead of asking for feedback every time, you can see your own mistakes and learn to make the proportions, shading and edges as close to the original as possible.

The site is below with a few examples you can look at to see how it works. http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison

http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/alGoreN5R... http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/brie http://drawingapps.ca/portrait-vs-photo-comparison/brie2ICPW...

Let me know what you think.

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 might not know which riff has the potential to be a song so you can upload a few riffs and see which one people like the most.

I was a busker over the summer and liked the thought that people enjoyed my music more than the fact they would give me some spare change. I'm trying to bring the idea that instead of throwing spare change you might have time as an internet pedestrian to vote/rate a 20 second music sound bite.

Let me know what you think...

PS - I made this project learning how to code Django and Python and it is a simple voting app like (Fasemash, Hot or Not, etc...) Most of the tracks are of me playing the guitar as well.

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 look at us at http://signup.moochable.co or fill in a survey at http://app.fluidsurveys.com/surveys/josh-m2/community-sharing-website/. Any advice or questions are appreciated.

Moochable - Share. Care. Grow

PS - I am a long-time lurker on HN. Basic background is I am an Aerospace Engineering from Canada learning how to program.