Edible googly eyes! Yipee! Have a party and make this! Invite us over!
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Month: July 2008
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Pachyderm Picasso
Is this for real? A hoax? Whatever, I love it.
And this just in: now there is the first ever entire elephant family who paints together. Check out the video here.
David Weisner is one of the top children book writers EVER! Or should I say “draw-er”. His books have very few words, but his imagination soars. They often start quite simply, but then they take you to a completely other place. You can be very young when you first read them, but even once you get all tall and grey, they will keep you young when you read them.
Flotsam is my current fave, as it features the picture-within-a-picture-within-a-picture principal that I am a 100% sucker for. That said Sector 7 is pretty rocking too, what with it’s tale of the clouds total revolution over the bland regime. And it’s gonna make a heck of a movie too (cuz I’m making it! — that is, with quite a bit of help from my friends…)
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Bionicle Rock Video
I was in high school when somehow the entire student body burst into a spontaneous version of “We Will Rock You”. I didn’t like the song then, but I’ve witnessed it become a parody of itself to the point that I can’t help but love that it now exists.
Bionicles are some sort of equivalent to that song. Although I love watching my son create new beings with their endless combinations, and there is something truly great about how the design of the pieces practice a “complicated is cool” devotion, they also possess the same bombastic essence as Queen’s clobbering beat.
I am waiting for some genius to make the great comical animated Bionicle video for us all to laugh with, but for now this clip’s closing guitar solo gets some serious props.
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Widescreen
Last month I tried to watch a good movie on what I thought was my big screen TV. I knew the film would have been better if I had been in the theater. Now, I think I will check out this site first the next time I get an urge to stay home instead of seeing something on the big screen. If this doesn’t remind of the truth of cinema, nothing will. Plus it’s good for the homesick blues when I am out of town for too long. It’s all NYC panoramas!
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Kami Robo!
Kami-Robo are robot fighters made from paper, measuring 15 to 20 cm. high. They have joints at the hips, knees, shoulders, elbows and waists which allow them to bend and move quite freely. About twenty-six years ago, Tomohiro Yasui started designing and making these fighters, creating an extensive mythology and heirarchy in the process. They fight in a ring, but it totally tops pro-wrestling with its drama and keen moves. NOW the whole world is kami-robo crazed. You can build your own, or even buy ready-made ones if you are a tad lazy — or in a hurry to join in the fun (so far the only place we’ve found them is at the MOMA store. There’s lots of great videos on the web too. This one below gives you a good intro course on their whole story.
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Rethinking how to live
The Greenhouse Project in the inner-city of Johannesburg is turning one urban park into a seedbed for sustainable communities. As their website explains, the program takes a holistic approach to the city’s challenges, integrating green building and design, efficient and renewable energy, recycling, organic farming and nutrition.
It’s a good idea that certainly could be transfered to many cities across the globe.
