I remember the days when I was walking or cycling to school and ahead of me was a huge puddle.
What was I to do, would I cross over, or risk being covered in water as some friendly driver created a bow-wave higher than a giraffe.
Ever wondered what that bow-wave would look like in slow-motion:
This weekend is a public holiday in the UK which gives me an extra day to get away from the laptop keyboard and screen, but I have to admit to being a bit of a junky with my iPhone and all of the Apps. The iPhone will travel with me, even on a public holiday.
The header image was taken by a friend while we were out hill walking the other week. He titled it “Mr Wainwright & iPhone”. It was taken on a glorious day with fabulous views, the freshest of air, invigorating exercise and the satisfaction of achieving another goal; but I still had to update my iPhone app that tracks which hills I’ve climbed. Yes, I am embarrassed by this.
Three students have had the idea of printing stickers which say “Not Available on the App Store” as friendly reminder to get kids away from constantly looking at screens. You can buy the stickers or even print your own. I love their tagline – “Because there isn’t an app for everything”.
It’s clearly not just a reminder that kids need to hear.
Below are some of the places where the pictures have already appeared, where would you put a sticker?
More pictures and updates here.
This one fits into the category of some people have too much time on their hands.
It’s brilliant all the same.
The recipe is simple, you take a bunch of drones and some musical instruments, then you combine them together to create a robot rock band.
That’s what KMel Robotics did anyway.
They also dance.
This one fits into the category of some people have too much time on their hands.
It’s brilliant all the same.
The recipe is simple, you take a bunch of drones and some musical instruments, then you combine them together to create a robot rock band.
That’s what KMel Robotics did anyway.
They also dance.
Caterpillar the heavy machinery manufacturer decided to demonstrate the prowess of their equipment by putting it to the test on that timeless game – Jenga!
How much fun could you have with office supplies.
How about this much fun:
These videos kept us very amused last weekend, so I thought I would share them with the rest of you for this weekend’s amusement.
You’re a dad, you work as a special effects artist at Dreamworks and you have a cute child.
You could have normal everyday home videos, or you could turn your child into an action movie hero:
More here.
I remember, as a child, sitting alongside spinning circles of paper and creating patterns. Sometimes we created with a pen; we tried to be precise, but often ended up with a complete mess. We would also turn the spinner to top speed and splash brightly coloured paint onto the paper and watch it spread out through the centrifugal force being applied to it.
We never managed to create anything quite as mesmerising as this:
If Superman was a twenty-first century person he would probably wear a GoPro and this is probably what it would look like:
There’s an interesting question. What would you do if someone said here’s $25,000 now what are you going to do with it?
When was the last time you did something that really scared you?
I remember feeling the fear that you can hear in this girl’s breathing a number of times in my childhood, our tendency is to avoid the fear experiences the older we get.
The more we isolate ourselves from the fear though, the more we also isolate ourselves from that feeling of elation at the end:
A love story to warm your heart on what is supposed to be (in the UK at least) a rather dark and soggy day.
Animated shorts are often some of the most inventive forms of communication and this one is no exception:
Graham Chastney 