To celebrate their 80th Birthday LEGO have put together an animation of their history.
It’s interesting to see how many different twists and turns the story goes through before LEGO achieves the success that we know today:
A bumper Friday this week.
I have a particular soft spot for art projects that use technology and a different soft spot for art projects that are interactive. This one is both:
Water Light Graffiti by Antonin Fourneau, created in the Digitalarti Artlab from Digitalarti on Vimeo.
More information on the project here.
Take one old, worn out electric toy car and modify it to become your child’s dream wheels.
What boy wouldn’t love to have this:
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How much of your life does this video perfectly represent?
Sometimes an innovation is obvious:
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I’m sitting just down the road from the British Open at Royal Lytham and St. Annes with all of the associated razzmatazz. So what better than to have a Mini-Golf Open or as we call it in the UK a Crazy-Golf Open:
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From Improv Everywhere.
We live in a world were remixing is huge.
Carly Rae Jepsen’s song Call Me Maybe took off in the USA with a remixed video, it helped that the remix included Justin Bieber and a whole stack of other stars. 
(According to some reports the original remix was posted before the official video)
The remixing didn’t stop there though, and this week even Sesame Street got in on the act:
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The original remix:
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Barack Obama gets mixed:
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It’s been particularly popular with collegiate sports teams:
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SMU and Harvard even had a ‘face off’ on NBC:
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These things get millions of viewers and I’m sure that the artists love all of the free publicity.
Oh, and before I forget, there’s also an official video which has been watched over 150 million times.
(I decided not to include the one from the Miami Dolphins Cheerleaders and Katy Perry)
How many of these can you name without the subtitle? I recognised most of them, but could only name a few of them.
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Pogo was never this much fun when I was a kid:
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Matt has been around since 2006 and millions have watched him dance from country to country again in 2008, others have imitated him.
The original Matt is back with a new version for 2012:
The variety of Guinness World Records always never ceases to amaze.
Who knew that there was a record for the farthest golf shot caught in a moving car?
Well there is, and the current record is 275 metres!
What do you need to attempt this record:
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The variety of Guinness World Records always never ceases to amaze.
Who knew that there was a record for the farthest golf shot caught in a moving car?
Well there is, and the current record is 275 metres!
What do you need to attempt this record:
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Graham Chastney 