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 ...
Everybody loves animal!
Sunday, February 27th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Video made by Javier Douglas & Joel Roberts to the song Dance yrself clean by LCD Soundsystem. Filmed in Brighton, UK. Watch it at least until 3:07...
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 ...
Mutation in action: trace this line
Friday, February 25th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals shows how a line mutates if you ask 500 people to trace an initially straight line. Each subsequent user only got to see the previous 'trace': Clement Valla did more of ...
Real life Escher waterfall
Thursday, February 24th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Look at what YouTube user McWolles made: M.C. Escher's famous waterfall in 3D, with real water: Of course this is another perspective trick, but how did he do it? The Youtube page and two posts on BoingBoing are full of commenters trying to ...
Trush
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Thrush is a short film on love and relationships in the internet age of photography. It is directed by Gabriel Bisset-Smith and Graham Turner, and written by Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Music by Golden Silvers.
Classical drumming
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »This is a fun version of the Barber of Sevilla! Andrea Vadrucci's debut solo album features him drumming with a 36 piece Italian orchestra:
Robotic rainbow
Monday, February 21st, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »This graffiti artist is welcome in my neighbourhood ;-) Robo-Rainbow is a work by Akay, as part of his Instruments of mass destruction (complicated technical solution to aide in simple acts of vandalism).
One love
Sunday, February 20th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Taking a stand | No Comments »A lovely version of Bob Dylan's One Love performed by the musicians of Playing for Change: On his Climate Denial Crock of the Week blog Peter Sinclair wrote last week: I'd be amazed if someone, somewhere in Tahrir Square in Cairo ...
Origami revisited – again
Saturday, February 19th, 2011 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »As a follow-up to my previous post about origami and its relationship with mathematics (TED talk of Robert Lang), here is some more about origami that I came across. I wanted to use the term origamics, but it turns out that ...
