The Secret Life of Plankton

April 19th, 2012

Another great TED-ED video.

Botanicula

April 8th, 2012

Those of you who have enjoyed playing Machinarium at school will be pleased to know that there is a new game from Amanita Design due out on April the 19th – Botanicula.

Questions No one Knows the Answers to

April 8th, 2012

A new TED talk by Chris Anderson. Stay curious!

More 3D animated GIFS

March 28th, 2012

Dain Fagerholm has used the 3D animated GIF technique on some of his hand-drawn illustrations. See more here

Timelapse – Cities

March 2nd, 2012

Splendid timelapse video of various American and Canadian cities by Dominic Boudrealt. More of his work here

Victorian microscope slides

February 19th, 2012

These are examples of Victorian ‘exhibition’ slides created by arranging the wing-scales of butterfles and insects, diatoms and other parts of microscopic creatures. You can see lots of interesting Victorian slides here

Make animations from stereoscope cards

February 1st, 2012

The New York Public Library website has an online program that lets you create animated GIFs from old Victorian and early 20th Century stereoscope cards. Try it here
Here are a couple of examples:

Festive foam near Blackpool

December 31st, 2011

It looks like snow, but is actually some sort of foam (probably decomposing algae) blowing in from the sea at Cleveleys near Blackpool.

Rocking around the Christmas Tree

December 11th, 2011

Put your face (and your friends faces) into a video of the song! link