Pencil Alphabet
August 2nd, 2010Dalton 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
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
Artist Bruce Munro has laid out 600,000 CDs in patterns in a field in Wiltshire. More pictures here

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.
A game where you can rotate the world to help you find your way around. Downloadable demo here
An online game that mixes ‘Alice through the Looking Glass’ with turntable scratching (you’ll need a scroll-wheel on your mouse).link

The British Film Institute have restored the coloured tints to this earliest film version of Alice in Wonderland.
An animation of weird happenings on Worthing seafront by Cyriak.
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’.
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!

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

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.
“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!
