A delightful project by Davy and Kristin McGuire using a pop-up paper theatre with back-projections.

In Japan trees covered in snow and ice, and looking ghostly, are called snow monsters. More photos here

An animation by PES.

‘Capturing Colour’ is a new exhibition at Brighton & Hove Museum about early attempts at producing colour photographs and film. There are lots of interesting things to watch and play with. Here is a film from 1897 made by local pioneer G.A.Smith -

and here is a hand-coloured film by the Lumiere brothers c.1899 -

This is a very early version of the ‘Swiss Army Knife’. It is around 1800 years old and made from silver, with an iron blade. It features a spoon, fork, spike, spatula and small tooth-pick. It is on display in the newly refurbished Greek and Roman antiquities gallery at the Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge. link

Years 5 and 6 are on an ‘underwater’ Learning Journey at the moment, so here is a video of one of Year 6 with some baby dogfish still in their ‘Mermaid’s Purses’.

This is what a Mermaid’s Purse looks like when you find it dried up on the beach –

If you’ve got a printer and a wecam you can try manipulating a virtual 3D cabinet on the Getty Mueum website. link

Google have ‘street-mapped’ Half Moon Island in Antarctica. Drag the penguin onto the main frame and steer using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

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Images designed in 3D modelling software then projected onto cuboid shapes in the real world.