97,000 Toothpicks

“An amazing project by my students. Total count of toothpicks: 96,690 Colors: Red, blue, green, yellow, black, purple, white, and light blue. Time Invested: About 3 weeks. Students involved: About 500.” LINK, Via: Youtube

Students remake Goofy Movie's title sequence

Tavie sez, "You have to be impressed by this student film, 'After Today Live'. These kids made an incredibly detailed shot-by-shot remake of the Goofy Movie's opening song, 'After Today' (the hero's 'I Want' song) with live actors instead of animation."

It's impressive work indeed! All produced for $100, too!

Amazing Shot-for-Shot Remake Goofy Movie - After Today Live (Ted Sowards), LINK: Boingboing, Via: Youtube

A Robot That Moves Like A Snake

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The OmniTread robot was built by engineering students at the University of Michigan. Its body consists of seven segments connected by pneumatic bellows. Treads on all four sides of the segments give it traction against surfaces, and the connecting bellows can inflate or deflate to provide stiffness or flexibility as needed. The robot can squeeze through a four-inch hole or ascend a vertical tube.

Link, Via: CrunchGear, Via: Neatorama

New Weed College

“A new college has been set up in the US to teach students how to grow, use and profit from marijuana. The Med Grow Cannabis College in Detroit runs six-week courses on producing the drug for medicinal use for about $450, reports the Daily Telegraph. They cover the horticultural skills required to grow the plants, as well as recipes for cooking and the legal pitfalls and loopholes. College founder Nick Tennant, 24, said: “This state needs jobs, and we think medical marijuana can stimulate the state economy with hundreds of jobs and millions of dollars.” LINK

How far beyond there medicinal teaching will they go?

THE DECEMBERISTS DEBUT NEW VIDEO

"Enjoy ‘The Rake’s Song’ (as generated by a UK Art School Winner)."

A stunning animated video for The Decemberists, The Rake's Song has been made by St.Martins College Of Art students. It was created and directed in Moscow, by Alex Dashino and Varvara Volodina. Alex and Varvara are second year students studying Moving Image at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London. LINK, Via: Youtube

Typography Film About Our 5 Senses

Check out this cool typography film created by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. It's a visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity.

Coolest part? There are no CG effects. LINK, Via: Vimeo

From the Hoop

From the hoop is a short 3D movie directed by 3 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008.

Meet Earl fleeing through Harlem while he seeks for his life.

The story is widely inspired by the life of Earl Manigault, one of the greatest basketball player of his generation who lose everything in drugs. The end of his life was dedicated to avoid children of Harlem having the same story.
So he started the "Walk Away From Drugs" tournament for kids. He died in 1998 from a heart failure. LINK, Via: Vimeo

World’s Longest Chain Of Pennies

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“Children in an after-school program hoped to earn a spot Wednesday in the Guinness Book of World Records for the longest continuous chain of pennies. And on a track at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, they fulfilled their wish. The 2,000 elementary and middle school students involved with THINK Together, a program with locations at more than 200 school sites in Southern California and 23 sites in Orange County, managed to lay 65 miles of pennies, or 5,491,720 pennies, in a chain on the race track before the sunset ended their efforts.” LINK

Karl Blossfeldt’s Nature Art

Insanely beautiful art found in nature, the planet really does do it’s best to impress us with its amazing artwork.

Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932), a German artist and professor, captured these ‘art forms in nature’ and used them to instruct his students.

Link, Via: Neatorama

Something Good For Parents and Students Grades 1 thru 6

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Worthwhile Web Sites for Learning has been created as a resource for Alberta parents who are actively involved in their children's education and interested in locating interactive web sites that support and enhance their child's learning.

The Site of the Week! features a wonderful website that supports literacy for younger learners.

Collections of interactive web sites are linked off of each subject area. (Divsion One - grades 1 to 3 and Division Two - grades 4 to 6).

Please check out this site and see if it helps out in your interaction with your children and there studies. LINK