Being Elmo is a documentary about the live of Kevin Clash, when he was young he admired puppeteers and he dreamt of being a Muppeteer and working for Jim Henson.
After he graduated he traveled to New York and applied at the Henson studio’s, and there he gave life to Elmo, Elmo became the red line in his life.
(via Kottke)
Being Elmo [beingelmo.com]
The term “Eddy current braking” (wikipedia) is probably well known to all of you, but this video van youtuber JamesRB1995 gives a nice demonstration of this effect. Keep in mind that copper is a non ferromagnetic material, so there is no magnetic attraction.
F5 2011 RE:PLAY Film Festival. Inductance from Physalia Studio on Vimeo.
A large magnet, a lot of plastic balls, some electronics and you will have MAGIC.
Just watch the movie 
Tomm Velthuis was able to fade the line between furniture and toys. He made a train track in a wooden table on wich he can drive his wooden trains. this way a normal table becomes a great toy. Fantastic!
Designer: Tomm Velthuis
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In many poor countries houses are being built with the materials people have at there disposal. Often these houses do not have any windows or electricity. This means these houses are often very dark, this reduces the quality of life is unsafe and reduces productivity. But this situation can now be improved by some empty bottles, water and some bleach, look at this clever solution. Developed by MIT and distributed by the “The Liter of Light” project.
Via Grist
Outside in my garden there is always a rainbow. Not in the sky. But close. It’s a pencil fence made of gigantic pencils. Doesn’t it look great?
Yesus Wilder used only 3 materials (Aluminum bronze and stainless steel) to create the worlds smallest V12 engine.
It’s already more than twenty years ago that Jim Henson the creator of the Muppets has passed away.
He died 16 may 1990 from pneumonia . he became 53 years old
During his funeral a number of “puppeteers” sang a number of Jims favourite songs as a way of tribute to him.
Recently recordings of this performance have serviced on internet .
Which Muppets, Freggles or sesame street figures can you recognize ? watch the clip around the 13:00 minute then the puppeteers get there puppets.
What is better than relaxing in a park on a beautiful summer day in the shade of a large tree.
The solution that has been designed by Rogier Martens makes from each large tree a bench in only a few minutes.
Great for temporary seating solutions in a public park but also in your own garden.
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Recently VW started a new commercial campaign consisting of three commercials.
the first two commercials are in fact a introduction to the third commercial aired in the brake of the superbowl 2012 .