Day: July 15, 2008

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Bowl Of Noses

Sharing Good Ideas

Awhile ago we looked at The Monster Engine, where Dave Devries turns childrens’ drawings of fantastical monsters into professional renderings of the very same beasts.  If you haven’t checked it out, it’s pretty cool, and a great simple idea worth repeating.

Yesterday Very Short List blasted about Yeedoo Jung who in 2005 took childrens’ drawings and turned them into professionally render photographs akin to movie sets.  They are pretty cool too.  Check them out here.

It’s great how good ideas are never held by one person alone, but that all over the globe people are thinking the same thing, only a wee bit different.
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These Are Those Things

Birds Are Artistic Geniuses


I used to think clouds were the top improvising artists out there.  These videos demonstrate otherwise.  I can’t even conceive of the math formulas that were used to come up with these shapes.  And coordination and timing.

BBoing turned me onto this one this morning (stop it at the commercial unless you are into bungee jumping), and a quick YTube search found the next one below.
I don’t have many regrets, but one is that I still have not hooked the video camera up to shoot out our window where I watch the birds’ ballet every morning.  They dart and they swirl in organized clusters and seem to much prefer the cool air more than today’s heat which keeps them still.  It’s on my To Do list, so one day….