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What exactly is Stumbleupon? We help you easily discover new and interesting stuff on the Web. More Beautiful Photographs Zodiac Light Young Heart Super Moon 2012 Student Punch Steve Jobs Sperm Whale Shower Time Robert Peraza The Cute Scene Pigy Myth. The 10 most expensive film posters – in pictures | Film. Guardian open journalism: Three Little Pigs advert - video | Media. The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr Morris Lessmore: An Interpretation. The world has become a harsh place. One moment you're sitting reading peacefully, the other you're in the middle of a storm. Though, figuratively, the storm could come in many different forms, they all have one thing in common – they can affect everybody except those shielded by the power of knowledge.
In such uncertain times, when everyone sees grey, only they can tell the white from the black. While everybody runs for their lives, Mr Morris Lessmore runs after the book he was reading before the storm came. The world is turning upside down, yet this is not enough to turn him away from his life goal – seeking knowledge. However, if not refreshed inside the mind, knowledge gradually evapourates with time. In no time, Lessmore becomes as black and white as the messy world he finds himself in.
But knowledge never fails those who seek it. He finds himself in a library inhabited by millions of fantastic, flying books. Mr Lessmore, above all, shares his knowledge of books with others. Activity Ideas - Squish Squash and Squeeze. I have had loads of emails about planning since I posted about my work with Tim so my next post will be a planning one (or two, if I can't fit it into one)! In the mean time thought I would share my activities from today with you... It was meant to be a rare day off but it seems that the printing press waits for no man and I had to get my photoshoot sorted out for the next '50 Fantastic Things' book.
I have to say a HUGE thank you to Jo and all of the team at Penguins Pre-School in Timperley who were super organised and super helpful and made the shoot run like a dream. Here are a few of the things that we did... Mix some food colouring with water in a potPut 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil into the bottom of your plastic bagThen add 4 tablespoons of coloured waterWAIT (and see what happens)Add 4 tablespoons of golden syrup to the bag.WAIT Zip up the bag and let the children squish. I know that jelly is a regular favourite but it never fails to get great results. Pink marshmallows in a bowl. ABCinema. How we made: Alison Prince and Brian Cant on Trumpton | Television & radio. Alison Prince, scriptwriter I'd written a children's series called Joe, so I was already kicking around the BBC. At some point, Monica Sims, head of children's broadcasting, said: "Oh, you wouldn't like to write some stories for a puppet series, would you?
" She was a very offhand woman; she'd been a naval officer. I didn't have a TV, but I had three kids to feed, so I said yes. Another problem was that the puppets all looked exactly the same. At that time, I was living in a rented flat. It's all Trumpton's part of what is now considered the golden age of children's TV, but at the time we didn't think of it like that. Brian Cant, narrator We used to record Trumpton in the bedroom of the show's composer, Freddie Phillips. Trumpton was the second of three series we did about Trumptonshire. It's very nice that it's been remastered – but where's my repeat fee? • This article was amended on 22 February 2012 to correct a quote from Alison Prince. Welcome to Experience Cinema. Please note that all our screenings are non seated affairs.
All you Kings and Queens of the dance floor will be encouraged to sing, dance and clap along to these cult classics. Limited seating is available around the car park but we, of course, want you all to get your party shoes on and keep those feet a tapping! The team from FRAME dance and fitness studio will also be on hand before every screening to show you all the moves and then guide you along as you master the actions of your on-screen heroes.
Our 70's & 80's dress up box will also be available for any of you that want a bit of last minute fancy dress, and The Book Club bar and its fine array of street food and cocktails will be in full flow to make sure all your party needs are met. And the party doesn't stop there as after every screening will be a exclusive 70s & 80s inspired Silent Disco so you can dance the night away. Fancy dress is not enforced but encouraged. FILMCLUB - Home. Da Vinci's Ghost: How The Vitruvian Man Came To Be. By Maria Popova Fifteen centuries of combinatorial creativity, or what Leonardo’s to-do list has to do with ancient Rome. In the first century B.C., at the dawn of the Roman imperial age, the architect and thinker Vitruvius proposed that the human body could fit inside a circle, symbolic of the divine, and a square, associated with the earthly and secular — an idea that later became known as the theory of the microcosm, and came to power European religious, scientific, and artistic ideologies for centuries.
Some fifteen hundred years later, in 1487, Leonardo da Vinci rediscovered Vitruvius’s theories and put them into form. Thus, the Vitruvian Man was born — one of humanity’s most powerful, iconic, and enduring images, and a cornerstone of mapping the body, dominating visual culture in everything from books to billboards. Yet its story is far more complex than that, and its enigma far richer than a handful of historical factoids. Lester observes: Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr.
'The oldest work of art ever': 42,000-year-old paintings of seals found in Spanish cave. Six paintings were found in the Nerja Caves, 35miles east of MalagaThey are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man By Tom Worden for MailOnline Updated: 21:27 GMT, 7 February 2012 The world's oldest works of art have been found in a cave on Spain's Costa del Sol, scientists believe.
Six paintings of seals are at least 42,000 years old and are the only known artistic images created by Neanderthal man, experts claim. Professor Jose Luis Sanchidrian, from the University of Cordoba, described the discovery as 'an academic bombshell', as all previous art work has been attributed to Homo sapiens. Important find: These six paintings of seals were discovered in the Nerja Caves near Malaga, Spain. The paintings were found in the Nerja Caves, 35 miles east of Malaga in the southern region of Andalusia.
Spanish scientists sent organic residue found next to the paintings to Miami, where they were dated at being between 43,500 and 42,300 years old. Oscar nominations 2012: if posters told the truth – in pictures | Film. Dust Echoes: Ancient Stories, New Voices. George Clooney's List of Top 100 Films from 1964 to 1976. George Clooney has given a list of his Top 100 films from 1964 to 1976, which he feels was “the greatest era in filmmaking by far. " It's hard to argue with that, many of my favorite movies come out of that era. In an interview with Parade Magazine the actor and movie geek explained his list saying... There were great filmmakers—Mike Nichols, Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese—you go down the list of these insanely talented filmmakers all working at the top of their game and kind of competing with each other.
Pakula, Sidney Lumet—I mean, you can just keep going down the list of these guys. Here's his list, check it out and let us know what you think. To read the full Clooney interview... Max Fleischer's Original Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Animation, 1947. By Maria Popova How Santa’s ninth reindeer made his on-screen debut. In 1939, Robert L. May conceived of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in a poem, published in a booklet by iconic department store Montgomery Ward. But “Santa’s 9th Reindeer” didn’t become etched into the nation’s collective imagination until May’s brother-in-law, songwriter Johnny Marks, adapted Rudolph into a song in 1949. But Rudolph made his first screen appearance two years earlier, in 1947, in a cartoon short produced by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. Fleischer’s film was eventually adapted into a lovely children’s storybook in 1951, illustrated by Richard Scarry. Donating = Loving Bringing you (ad-free) Brain Pickings takes hundreds of hours each month.
You can also become a one-time patron with a single donation in any amount: Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter. Share on Tumblr. A Book For Xmas. Danny MacAskill – Industrial Revolutions. Industrial Revolutions is the amazing new film from street trials riding star Danny MacAskill. You can see Danny taking his incredible bike skills into an industrial train yard and some derelict buildings.
Filmed in the beautiful Scottish countryside Danny MacAskill’s latest film was directed by Stu Thomson (Cut Media/MTBcut) for Channel 4′s documentary Concrete Circus. Danny MacAskill is a Scottish street trials pro rider, born and raised in Dunvegan on the Isle of Skye. On April 19th, 2009 the then twenty-three year old released a five-and-a-half-minute street trials video on YouTube set to ‘The Funeral’ by Band of Horses that was to change his life.
Filmed by his flatmate Dave Sowerby, the video got a few hundred thousand views over night and as of today has been watched well over 25 million times – the world went crazy for Danny. Tagged with Danny MacAskill, Industrias Revolutions, Stu Thomason, Trails Riding Star. Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) Shows You How to Make Your Own Cutout Animation. My favourite film: The Big Lebowski | Film. Before we get into this, I should say that my other favourite film is Casablanca. Romance, sacrifice, heroism, war; Casablanca has it all. But does it have the Dude engaging in a plan to confront an adolescent car thief while watching his landlord perform an interpretative dance while dressed as a tree? No, it does not. Like a teenager who discovers Che Guevara T-shirts, there is nothing original or particularly inspired about liking The Big Lebowski. So predictable, you'll say.
So what's it actually about? The Big Lebowski could so easily have descended into a checklist of absurdities for the sake of wackiness. It's never quite clear whether it bothers The Dude, co-author of The Port Huron Statement and former member of the Seattle Seven, that the world continues at a pace out of step with his own – mostly because he is constantly stoned. Still, the Dude is clearly our flawed hero. But obviously none of this is what people love about the film.