by McKenna Gordon | Jan 15, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, DIY
A great tutorial on how to play this old-timey game with just two people and some...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 15, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, MUSIC
Learning about the duration of musical notes — their various lengths, names, and how they interact with underlying beats in order to create rhythm — can be challenging. This video was produced to make that process “upbeat” and fun without oversimplifying...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 15, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, MUSIC
Welcome to the future: Yuri Suzuki shows us how to turn fruit into musical...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 15, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, MUSIC
Burls Art shows us how he built a fully-functioning electric guitar from 1200 colored pencils, epoxy, lots of sanding, and a whole lot of patience! Watch each mesmerizing step in this video. He even plays a song on it at the...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE
For honey bees, making a new queen is as simple as adding royal jelly, a unique protein rich secretion, to the cell of a growing larvae. This fairly well studied addition causes a cascade of physiological changes in the growing larvae and voila! A queen is born....
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE
“Sitting around a campfire, you can feel its heat, smell the woody smoke, and hear it crackle. If you get too close, it burns your eyes and stings your nostrils. You could stare at the bright flames forever as they twist and flicker in endless incarnations… But...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | ANIMALS, AWESOME VIDEOS, SCIENCE
Pods of killer whales inhabit the waters of every major ocean on Earth. Each family is able to survive thanks mainly to one member, its most knowledgeable hunter: the grandmother. These matriarchs can live 80 years or more and their expertise can mean the difference...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS
Traveling Through Brush and Ink is a stop-motion animation of a little modern man traveling through four significant ancient Chinese paintings, transforming himself into animals and plants, and becomes part of the nature. Each painting represents four important stages...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS
Los Angeles-based artistMegan Geckler builds a “six-story hurricane of color” in the atrium of the Sydney, Australia’s Customs House. The art piece was designed using flagging tape, which is used in construction, forestry, and mining. Six colors of...
by McKenna Gordon | Jan 14, 2019 | ART, AWESOME VIDEOS
Artist and film maker Guy Larsen shows how to get a jumpstart on creativity by using crumpled paper as a starting point. He jumpstarts his drawings of imagined people from the shadows of crumpled paper pieces. We dare you to try this and tag...
