A clip of filmmaker Maarten Koopman’s Under My Hat. Watch more of his animation here: Famous Paintings and Sketchbook Machines.

Watch a time-lapse video of how a 20-foot balloon acrocanthosaurus is made. The Airigami team assembled the dinosaur and its ecosystem, including some plants and some crawly insects, at the Virginia Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Ancient Life in four days.

via The Awesomer.

Earth Unplugged films the northern goshawk’s magnificent speed and precision skills in slow motion as it aims for lures and water balloons.

via Laughing Squid.

After this, watch an owl in slow motion, or up the challenge: How small of a space can a northern goshawk fly through?

Using 160 large helium balloons and the help of 100 team members, Matt Silver-Vallance successfully flew from Robben Island to 300 meters off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa to raise money for the Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital. The flight was not only a daring feat, but was a tribute to former South African President and Nobel Laureate Nelson Mandela. In his opposition to apartheid, Mandela was a political prisoner on Robben Island for 18 years of his 27 years in prison. 

Though the weather was not in his favor at first, Silver-Vallance tweeted this sunny photo, saying, “I knew I had gone high but didn’t realise that this is what the 1000m high looks like!”

Related flying with balloons: National Geographic recreates the balloon house from Pixar’s Up.

via Telegraph.co.uk.

It’s not magic, it’s science! In this case, physics! This Sick Science experiment uses static electricity to help objects “fly” in the air. Details here.