Ron Gutman: "Smiling stimulates our brain-reward mechanism in a way that even chocolate [..] can not match. British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2000 bars of chocolate."

A video "mockumentary" dubbed Ninos Incomodos, roughly Discomforting Kids, that shows children as kidnappers, corrupt cops and drug traffickers sparked a fierce debate in violence-torn Mexico.
Kids playing the role of businessmen, criminals and corrupt officials are seen robbing, paying bribes and shooting it out in a mock Mexico made up entirely of children, all to the deceptively laid-back tune of the 1970s ballad "Una Manana," or "One Morning.":

Produced by the foundation Nuestro Mexico del futuro, supported by private companies and universities and distributed over the Internet, the video ends with a direct message to the candidates in the Mexico's July 1 presidential race. A little girl faces the camera and says: "If this is the future that awaits me, I don't want it. Enough of working for your political parties instead of for us. Enough of cosmetic changes."

This is what the movie actors have to say:

When I tried to find the video on Youtube, I found several of them 'removed by the user'. I do not know what that means but you may have to search Youtube for 'Ninos Incomodos'
 

If you know of an English translation, please let me know.

This smart kid deserved what he got!

If you're ever in LA, go play at his Caine's Arcade.

He has a Facebook page too.

This is an excerpt from Alive Inside, a documentary about the Music and Memory nonprofit project, a film by Michael Rossato-Bennett.

For more information about how Music and Memory can help elderly patients, or to donate an iPod (new or used), visit http://www.MusicandMemory.org.  

The video quotes Oliver Sachs saying:
"The philosopher Kant once called music 'the quickening art'"
 

Just watch the video.

Devised and produced by Duval Guillaume. Music by Raveyards vs. Uinxxx.

Animated Anatomies is an exhibition of anatomical flap books that were used for medical education as far back as the 16th century.

The exhibition is currently hosted at the Duke University Perkins Library.

The Tetris games has inspired may people:

In 2000 a group of Brown University undergraduates unveiled La Bastille, a 10-story-tall version of the famously addictive video game:

and this has been repeated several times:

Here is a Tetris game that makes you go mad.

People have even made Tetris blocks from chain mail, but check here if you want to know how Tetris blocks are really made or how the next block is chosen in the game.
 

Only filmmakers in Japan seem to be able to make these kind of movies:

Attack of the Pink Armadillo, a scene from a Japanese show called Kikaida, in which "Pink Armadillo transforms itself into a voluptuous woman to entice men and implant control devices in their brains.":

Panty Mask (1991)
By almost any standards, this film set in an old western town populated entirely by cute young Catholic school girls and shotgun-toting nuns who have killed off the entire male population is as weird as they come. The super heroine is Panty Mask who sports a leather bikini and a pair of leather girls’ underwear on her face:

Funky forest, After school:

You have to admire the filmmakers that they dare to make these movies. There must be a market for them.

Here are some more photo-realistic painters [previous in Art is present(14)]:

Juan Bautista Nieto makes large format paintings combining oil and acrylic paint with air brush techniques:

Amusing Planet shows more examples of Nieto's work.

Steve Mills from Boston:

Again, Amusing Planet has more examples and info.
(You might like to follow Amusing Planet. It calls itself a photoblog that features odd news from around the world covering topics such as Art, Design, Travel, Photography, Humor and Other Wonderful Things.

London based artist Joe Simpson makes these movie-like scenes:

Rome-born Luciano Ventrone now works in Denmark:

(To see his paintings, use the See artworks bar at the top of this site)

My earlier posts in the series Art is Present: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14)

Now this is smart!

You like your kids to start tinkering with lights, electric motors, switches etc, but a soldering iron is a bit to dangerous? Use dough!

The Squishy Circuits site has the recipes for making your own conductive and insulating dough, plus specific how-to guides for making a buzzer circuit, a battery etc.