Clever birds
We think we are the smartest beings on the face of the earth, but sometimes I wonder …..
We think we are the smartest beings on the face of the earth, but sometimes I wonder …..
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For our latest mission, we staged a reenactment of the first Princess Leia / Darth Vader scene from Star Wars on a New York City subway car. The white walls and sliding doors on the train reminded us of the rebel ship from the movie, and we thought it would be fun to see how people would react to a surprise appearance by the iconic characters. We spread out the actors along the train line, staging it so they would enter the right car at the right time. Enjoy the video first and then go behind-the-scenes with the photos and report below.
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This is the message that the Maroochydore High School, Queensland, Australia, staff voted unanimously to record on their school telephone answering machine. This is the actual answering machine message for the school.
This came about because they implemented a policy requiring students and parents to be responsible for their children’s absences and missing homework. The school and teachers are being sued by parents who want their children’s failing grades changed to passing grades – even though those children were absent 15-30 times during the semester and did not complete enough school work to pass their classes. (more…)
What may appear as a bit of a weird title to this post, let me explain. It is the name of a both the song and video by a group called, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip. The song in question is something that one of my facebook friends posted, that I thought was so amazing, IÂ listen to it on repeat six times. I think that this video speaks directly to the youtube generation, telling us not to be lazy and greedy. If anything, it is just very funny. Give it a listen.
You have seen this doing the rounds on the internet but I thought I would post it for those who hadn’t seen it. It seems that the people at Fox thought it was time to update the opening to The Simpsons. It is the first time it was been updated in nearly twenty years. For the most part, I like it, it includes a lot of the characters that have been introduced or have become more important. I like that Maggy has her little fist shake to the other baby. I also like seeing side-show bob trying to kill Bart as he goes passed.
It is an interesting move to put the Simpsons in High-definition, as cartoons is not really the best media to transfer to this format. Becuase of the nature of cartoons, with big blocks of colour, they do are not effected by low video quality.
What do you think of it?
I thought I would take the time to say, well done to Barack Obama for gaining office. This day is one that I will tell my children of, when the world became a more talent place. Where belief that every man,woman and child was born equal, was today proved to the world. For me personally, I could not be more overjoyed by this day. That America, a country that is seen as the world’s example, that has for so long lived under the shadow of ignorance, intolerance and Xenophobia has now walked out into the light. That in these troubled times, a man of conviction ,intelligence and grace is put in charge of a country that can make a difference through-out the world it means that today is a great day. Barack’s election today sends a message to the world, that tolernace does exist, that people’s of different races can work together for a better future. No one knows what the future may bring but can we live together peacefully and build a better future, in the word’s of Barack Obama himself, “Yes we can“.
There are few times in my life that I see something and my breath is taken away. I am massive fan of art but like many of us, I don’t have the time to go to galleries enough. Luckier enough, while watching diggnation, I saw a video that simply was amazed. The video is truly impressive, as it is seven minutes long animation. The animation was made by painting an image on a wall, taking a picture, repainting the wall and taking another picture. Consudering that for each second of film there could be as many as 26 frames, that is a lot of pictures. Even if they painted only 13 images a second, that could be as many as 5460 painting.
The video was by a morden artist called blu. Blu it turns out is a big deal in the art world and is famous for coming his images on public spaces on walls. Looking at his blog, I found he also did a massive painting on the side of the tate modern. I really enjoyed this painting, I look forward to seeing more from this artist.