Sniffing out the stuff that kids really get best
I think we all know by now that you can never run out of fun things to do in this world. After we realize that, I think we start to realize that you can never run out of useful things to do, like, well, you know, improve the world. I don’t think that THE HUMAN CLOCK qualifies as either (at least for The Bowl), but somehow it remains FUN to see How People Waste Their Time, and maybe that is useful.
This guy clearly is the World Champion Etch-A-Sketch artist. I just wish he drew funnier pictures.
How old are you when you start to realize that some folks out there just looovve to pull a fast one? What is that makes pranks, cons, rip-offs, and good ‘ol hoaxes so darn fascinating? We can read up on them for hours in our household. And if the grown-ups try to pull the book away from you, just let them know that hoaxes help you learn to think better: it teaches scientific method and the search for a proof.
We should all become Simpsons characters. Let’s face it, even before they say something, just looking at them makes you laugh. What if when we dreamed we became ourselves but in the Simpsons style?
Line drawing is a lot harder to animate than it looks. Every second is 24 drawings. This is a film from 1958 by Len Lye to some African drumming. It doesn’t tell a story but is one with the music and I find it pretty cool to look at.
Well, okay, a real dead one. This is a 96 tentacled octopus. Each of it’s tentacles branches out 8 times. It’s as if each of your fingers had five fingers on them. Or something like that. Make a note, you can visit this one the next time you are in Shima, Japan at the Shima Marineland Aquarium.
Matt Rivera put us on the scent of this wild animation technique. Or is it a drawing technique? Whatever the heck it is, it’s really cool.
