Pencil Alphabet

August 2nd, 2010

Dalton Ghetti carves tiny sculptures into pencil ‘leads’ using just a razor blade, needle and craft knife, without using a magnifying glass. See a gallery of his sculptures here

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CD Sea

June 24th, 2010

Artist Bruce Munro has laid out 600,000 CDs in patterns in a field in Wiltshire. More pictures here

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Kooky Returns

April 15th, 2010

Here is a trailer for ‘Kooky Returns’ – a film due out later this year. The puppet design is by Jakub Dvorsky, who designed the games – Samarost and Machinarium.

And Yet It Moves

April 8th, 2010

A game where you can rotate the world to help you find your way around. Downloadable demo here

Record Tripping

March 26th, 2010

An online game that mixes ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ with turntable scratching (you’ll need a scroll-wheel on your mouse).link

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Alice in Wonderland – 1903

March 12th, 2010

The British Film Institute have restored the coloured tints to this earliest film version of Alice in Wonderland.

Giant Teddy Bears Invade Worthing

March 11th, 2010

An animation of weird happenings on Worthing seafront by Cyriak.

Another ‘Incredible Machine’ – OK Go

March 10th, 2010

We like to feature real-world versions of the ‘Incredible Machine’ games that lots of you like to play at school. Here is a video made for OK Go’s song – ‘This too shall pass’.

Fluid Fire

March 5th, 2010

Years 1 and 2 are studying the Great Fire of London. On this website you could try building a house using the ‘wooden wall’ and ’stone wall’ tools, then see how it burns!

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Pickled Unicorn

February 28th, 2010

One of Damien Hirst’s ‘Unicorns’ is currently on display at the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne. It has a golden horn and hooves, and is preserved in a tank of formaldehyde. link

The Known Universe

January 15th, 2010

Years 5 & 6 are studying ‘Space’ in their learning journeys this term. Here is a video, made by the American Museum of Natural History, that gives you some idea of the scale of the Universe.

Snowballs

December 1st, 2009

“A History of the Snowman” is a book that traces the history of snowman-building back to the Dark Ages. It also has this painting of a snowball fight that took place in January 1403!