I love these literal Dr Seuss covers from Buzzfeed.
There are a few more. The whole exercise of examining the worldview or moral behind the stories in picture books is something I’m looking forward to doing over the next few years.
Category: Culture
Parenting 2.0: How to keep your children’s online behaviour in check
When Tommy Jordan discovered a rant his teenage daughter had posted about her parents on Facebook (she forgot to hide it from the dog). He decided to make a little video response and share it with her friends.
There is a language warning here – but I’m posting it with the disclaimer Tommy included when he posted it to YouTube.
“Warning: Since this video seems to have gone crazy, I figure I’ll post this notice. I’m going to read a letter my 15 year old daughter wrote. There ARE some curse words in it. None of them are incredibly bad, but they are definitely things a little kid shouldn’t hear… not to mention things MY KID shouldn’t say!
If you want to see the original Facebook thread, it’s located at:
http://www.facebook.com/tommyjordaniii/posts/299559803434210
——————————————————————————–————–My daughter thought it would be funny/rebellious/cool to post on her Facebook wall just how upset she was and how unfair her life here is; how we work her too hard with chores, never pay her for chores, and just in general make her life difficult.
She chose to share this with the entire world on Facebook and block her parent’s from seeing it. Well, umm… she failed. As of the end of this video, she won’t have to worry anymore about posting inappropriate things on Facebook…
Maybe a few kids can take something away from this… If you’re so disrespectful to your parents and yourself as to post this kind of thing on Facebook, you’re deserving of some tough love. Today, my daughter is getting a dose of tough love.”
The first seven minutes of this video essentially function as a back story to the rather dramatic, and pretty awesome, ending. So once you feel you understand the hurt the father is feeling, skip to around the 7 minute mark.
Ok Go in automobile rube goldberg film clip
Just when you thought these guys couldn’t get much cooler, or more elaborate, with their film clips…
Northern Lights Timelapse
This is just extraordinarily beautiful. It’s what Timelapses were designed to feature.
A capella Gotye
Nice.
Lego Hadron Collider: if you step on the “God particle” it hurts…
A 1:50 scale model of the Large Hadron Collider’s Atlas Detector. In Legos. Yes.
Some fun facts – the guy behind it wanted Lego to embrace the project, producing it as a kit…
“The raw materials required to the build the LHC model cost about EUR 2,000, funded by the high energy physics group to promote alternative ways of learning.
The company that builds lego bricks (trademarked in capitals as LEGO) has so far not reacted to Professor Mehlhase’s proposal to build the model.”
Aww.
Perhaps this is why:
“The model is made of 9,500 lego bricks and is about 1:50 in scale. There is no construction manual yet, but there will soon be one, he says on his website. The model is very intricate, even showing the innermost pixel detector.”
There’s a gallery of construction pictures and stuff here.
It was created by the University of Copenhagen, Via thenextweb
Procrastination: The flow chart guide
College starts back soon. So I’ll be needing this. I’ll probably tape it to my desk in the library…
Via Ehdom.
A sandcastle driven stop motion shot on a mobile phone
Descriptive titles are all I’ve got the brain matter for today… but this is impressive.
Gulp. The world’s largest stop-motion animation shot on a Nokia N8. from Nokia HD on Vimeo.
Some info (from here – where you can also watch a making of)
“The new film, Gulp, tells the simple story of a fisherman who gets swallowed by a larger predator. It was shot entirely with the Nokia N8 phone. “Strapping the device to a 40-meter high cherry picker on a massive expanse of beach with gale force winds seemed like a good challenge for the smartphone,” says David Bruno, a creative at Wieden + Kennedy London which created the spot along with directing team Sumo Science, from animation studio Aardman, and sand artist Jamie Wardley, from sand and ice sculpture specialists, Sand in Your Eye.”
OK Go make colourful Sesame St video
These guys do viral musical videos like nobody else.
Mapping the motions of Michael Jackson’s dancing
While we’re on the subject of Michael Jackson, and indeed, Billie Jean (see the previous post)…
This is pretty cool.
How to Direct/stop traffic like a boss/Michael Jackson
You’ve got to enjoy what you do, right? Even if it’s an apparently mundane job. Like being a traffic cop.
Pantone heroes: the ultimate minimalism
This is very clever, especially if you’re looking for a colour scheme with punch. They’re available as posters and stuff from artist Gidi Vigo.
Via Churchm.ag.
30 hornets kill 30,000 bees in 3 hours
This footage is amazing. It’s like an insect horror movie, and should be accompanied with Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, or Rachmaninoff’s Flight of the Bumblebee to be truly epic.
Via Kottke and the entire internet.