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
Evaporating water in -30C
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Now why didn't I think of this? Probably because it's a lot colder in Canada than in the Netherlands.
Four dudes on one cello
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Stringfever call themselves the worlds first genetically modified string quartet:
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:
There Is No Movement Without Rhythm
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Foli (the Malinke word for rhythm) is a 11-minute movie by Thomas Roebers (A moving Company) and Floris Leeuwenberg showing the rhythmic daily life of Baro, a Malinke village in Guinea:
Martin Luther King, Jr. ‘sings’ in Memphis
Tuesday, January 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »A wonderful remake of (excerpts of) MLK's last speech in Memphis: Here is the original fragment: And for those who want it, here's the full famous "I have a dream" speech:
A walk through Maple Creek Park
Sunday, January 16th, 2011 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Frank L. Sharp's video about Maple Creek Park: I love what this guy is doing. He found out how to make these videos, seems to thoroughly enjoy doing it, and just does it regardless of what other people might think about ...
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 ...
I’m back
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011 Posted in ... Other, Wordpress | No Comments »If I could just add the Terminator's menacing voice in here... ;-) After a long period of inactivity, I plan to regularly post again. I have kept collecting material all that time, so there's plenty of interesting stuff coming. I just updated ...
