Woman puts waste bottle in the bin…
Friday, April 1st, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »... and look what happens. Awesome stunt!
Geography lesson: Countries of the world
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »Reminds me of Tom Lehrer's Elements...
Always look on the bright side of life
Monday, March 28th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »This is a nice version of the Monty Python song! Here's the 'original'
Art is present (10)
Sunday, March 20th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »Brian Detmer carves art out of old books. He folds and bends the pages, and cuts them out to create sculptures like this: Tomoko Shioyasu takes huge sheets of synthetic paper and cuts away at it: See the blog post at My ...
Space shuttle launch video (STS 133)
Saturday, March 5th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »NASA released these views from several camera's mounted on the solid rocket boosters of the space shuttle launch of flight STS 133 on 24 Februari: Notice e.g. The condensation on the lens right right after the start ...
Angry Birds to the extreme
Monday, February 28th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »The game Angry Birds has taken over the world by storm and has many enthusiastic players: But this family may be overdoing it a little ;-) Youtube user Electricpigtv writes: It's become a family tradition that I make increasingly ridiculous birthday cakes ...
Flights of the bumblebee
Saturday, February 26th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »People play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the bumblebee on all kinds of instruments. Here are some performances: Remember that scene from the movie Shine, where David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) plays it on piano?: Or do it on 8 pianos simultaneously: Yehudi Menuhin on violin: Luis ...
Croissant making
Thursday, January 20th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »... and pain au chocolat, pain au raisins, torsades au chocolat, oranais, and other danish pastries. Be happy Be very happy
Flying and jumping paint
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »The 'Floating' movie is highspeed footage of flying paint: (credits at the end). floating from floating on Vimeo. This reminds me of the recent 'Sound sculptures' Canon Pixma advert: Here is 'the making of' that last one:
Beauty of nature
Thursday, January 13th, 2011 Posted in ... Other | No Comments »This short film 'Nature by numbers', made by Cristóbal Vila of Etérea Studios demonstrates some of the mathematical properties (Fibonacci sequence, golden ratio etc.) of the Nautilus shell, sunflowers and insect eyes. The interesting question is of course: why did these ...
