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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Oh Japan, you have delivered once again. This time, it’s in the form of Wrecking Crew Orchestra, a dance team that’s perhaps perfected the art of TRON-like illuminated dancing. (No, we’re not sure who came first.) The tight light sequences were fun to watch, especially because they look edited, but aren’t. The co-curator and I kept trying to figure out where the darkened dancers would turn on next.
For a higher-quality look at Wrecking Crew Orchestra’s work, check out one of their DOCOMO Xperia commercials.
Thanks, @cosentino. Via reddit.
The first 3/4 of the video are a chemistry experiment breakdown of what goes into a glow stick and what each of those ingredients is meant to do. But at the end, all of this coalesces into a fine explanation of the difference between light-absorbing dyes and fluorescent dyes. Come for the glow-stick “how to”, stay for the better understanding of how light works and how it influences what you see!
via BoingBoing.
Photographer and filmmaker Jacob Sutton captures pro snowboarder William Hughes in a L.E.D. suit during a night shoot in the Rhône-Alpes region of France.
“I was really drawn to the idea of a lone character made of light surfing through darkness,” says Sutton of his costume choice. “I’ve always been excited by unusual ways of lighting things, so it seemed like an exciting idea to make the subject of the film the only light source.”
via Kottke.
How to make an LED Robot Ornament! And after you’ve watched this, you can refer to the excellent step by step guide on Make Projects, which includes links for buying some of the supplies that you might not have around the house.
If you want to play pinball on the side of a building, contact the team (Carol Martin and Thibaut Berbezier) that did it on the facade of the Célestins Theater in Lyon, France for Fête des Lumières 2011.
After I explained the game of pinball to the co-curator, he asked if you could do that with Angry Birds, too. Yes, I said, you almost can…
via UFunk.net.
Phillipe Coustaeau and the team dive in the Red Sea, one of the warmest seas in the world. Despite the warm temperatures, coral reefs flourish with their flourescent pigmentation putting on an amazing show of technicolour. Fantastic clip taken from the BBC Oceans series.
