http://vimeo.com/8461831 The pictures were cut out from skateboarding magazines and then used in sequence to create the movement, one frame at a time, like a digital flipbook animation. If you have a digital camera try to make one of your own and I will post it here.
Category:Just For Fun
More Music Fun…
Many thanks to Santi for telling me about this OK Go Music video. They are always the most innovative of bands, having featured on the blog before. This one is a masterpiece in which they sing their song inside ae car whilst playing the music by driving through a series of obstacles and bashing their instruments …
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Man v Food…
My satellite dish was fixed on Wednesday. There were men on my roof and everything! So I have Sky working again after an extended drought of about 5 months. I needed something intellectually stimulating so put on Dave in the hope of an old episode of QI. Instead, I saw something completely new to me …
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Sporting Scientists…
During the IPL cricket match I watched yesterday, the commentators spoke to Dr Daniel Harris who was wearing a microphone on the field for the Deccan Chargers. When not playing cricket he is a hospital doctor and I thought that this was pretty unusual. I can’t think of very many sports stars with a science background. …
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Lego…
Lego is a 3rd declension verb that goes like rego (rego, regere, rexi, rectum – has there ever been a funnier verb?). There’s a jolly website here that is full of third declension related fun and frolics. It seems to mean variously; I read, I pick out, I choose – but I am sure that you are much …
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Existentialist Gorilla…
Just easing myself back into blogging mode after the end-of-term bedlam, I could not decide between a response to the LHC colliding particles at 7TeV, which I watched live on the Internet yesterday, or a spoof video clip about scientists teaching animals to embrace the impermanency of existence. Since the former required work and the …
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U.N.C.L.E. Hughie…
Quizzing Opportunities…
8D & 8E – If you want to challenge yourself a little, particularly if chemistry is your thing, you might want to look at eFocus Learning. Navigate to Essential Chemistry and at the bottom of the menu of topics you will find Activities and Multiple Choice. The relative atomic mass section might be a little …
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Animal Diets…
Happy New Year! Way down deep in the middle of the Congo,A hippo took an apricot, a guava and a mango.He stuck it with the others, and he danced a dainty tango.The rhino said, “I know, we’ll call it Um Bongo”Um Bongo, Um Bongo, They drink it in the Congo.The python picked the passion fruit, …
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A Capella Science…
I thought this was rather splendid. Perhaps you will recognise the song, although the words have been quite delightfully altered.