Luigi Vunderschvonce: You know what might be better than sketch comedy? Sketch tragedy! Imagine it like Vaudeville. “Hey folks! I’m Romeo! I love Juliette, but my family won’t allow me to marry her!” badump tsh “Hey folks! My uncle just poured poison into my father’s ear and killed him, and then my girlfriend killed herself in a river!” badump tsh And then a giant cane will come out and pull me off stage… and isn’t that the real tragedy?
Species of Illumination – Lamps That Behave like Animals
Ever needed some light but you were too far away and didn’t have the clapper installed? What if you could just call the lamp over like your pet dog. For his graduation project at Design Academy Eindhoven, Bob de Graaf is exploring ideas such as this. Inspired by the movie Wall-E and an experiment at a park in Eindhoven, Bob has begun creating lamps that respond to humans and light much like organisms would.
I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been a man, and a little boy.
It’s just the Today Show cast talking about dressing up for Halloween.
The Tripped Out Music Video for Ilium by Alex Metric Stars the Space Shuttle and Astronauts
Yes, sometimes I get to design stuff for NASA. Yes, I’m a space geek. No, I didn’t realize that the video for Alex Metric‘s Ilium was going to be so awesome.
The Overprotected Kid by Hanna Rosin
As someone who doesn’t have a kid yet, I talk a big talk when I say to let kids get dirty, get hurt, and make mistakes. However, I have a siblings that are 10 and 20 years younger than me. My brother and sister have happily let me throw them into the proverbial deep end knowing I’d be there to back them up when things got rough. Our fears manifest themselves in peculiar ways, the rules we create for young and old often say as much about our insecurities as what we think of others. Check this article out and consider what it means to let children light fires and play with sharp objects.
Photograph by Peter Yang for The Atlantic
h/t to Tim Bailey for the heads up on this article
World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements
Watch the documentary “World Peace and other 4th-Grade Achievements” immediately. Formatted as a game, over the past 30 years retired teacher John Hunter has developed a critical thinking exercise that leverages the…
Russian War Epic Stalingrad Set for Fall 2013 Release
With approximately 1,150,000 humans killed, missing, or wounded, the Battle of Stalingrad stands as one of the bloodiest battles in history. The battle was fought between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany from August 23, 1942 until February 2, 1943 during World War II. Due to the decimation of German Wehrmacht forces, the Battle of Stalingrad is considered a pivotal fight in the defeat of Nazi Germany. Director Fedor Bondarchuk has attempted to create a love story amidst the carnage of the battle in his film Stalingrad.