The Kid Should See This.

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There's just so much science, nature, music, art, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven't seen. It's most likely not stuff that was made for them...

But we don't underestimate kids around here.

Kid-friendly not-made-for-kids videos for all! Collected by Rion Nakaya and her three four year old co-curator.

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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore is one of this year’s Oscar nominees for best Short Film (animated). We really, really enjoyed this.

You can read more about its inspirations (Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and Hurricane Katrina, to name a few), its makers, its message (about the power of story), and its iPad app at LATimes.com.

Update: Switched from vimeo to youtube source due to video availability.

“The Joy of Books” is a wonderful stop-motion animation in which the books in a small bookshop come alive at night. The animation is by Sean Ohlenkamp and quite a large number of volunteer book wranglers. It was shot after hours at Type Books in Toronto.

via Laughing Squid. Thanks, @dougmcarthur.

Back in 1964, Shel Silverstein wrote The Giving Tree, a widely loved children’s book written now translated into more than 30 languages. It’s a story about the human condition, about giving and receiving, using and getting used, neediness and greediness, although many finer points of the story are open to interpretation. Today, we’re rewinding the videotape to 1973, when Silverstein’s little book was turned into a 10 minute animated film… Silverstein narrates the story himself and also plays the harmonica… 

From OpenCulture, via BrainPickings.org.

Though we’re familiar with Andrew Zuckerman’s work — we’ve put together his Creature puzzle many times — this two year old Bird book promo video was new to us. It’s a great introduction to the diversity of birds, and seeing feathers full-screen in HD alone is worth the watch. You can check out the Behind the Scenes video, too.

This video has no sound and that’s a good thing; Jello dropping onto a flat surface in slow motion needs nothing else to be entertaining. They’ll need to be played a few times, but the Kid Should See this water balloon pop and this popcorn pop, too.

Slo-mo Jello videos aren’t rare on YouTube, but this one was made by the Modernist Cuisine: The Art of Science and Cooking team, whose $625 set of books was featured (for you adults) on The Colbert Report in March. 

We watched a lot of Jello-related videos after this one. My favorite was this promo illustrating the physics behind General Electric’s hybrid locomotives. My 3 year old co-curator liked it, too, but felt this one was more fun. (He’s right.) 

via Science Friday.

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