LEGO Ad From 1981 Should Be Required Reading For Everyone Who Makes, Buys Or Sells Toys. - StumbleUpon. 5by. The Scale of the Universe 2. THE FACES OF FACEBOOK. My Son Wears Dresses; Get Over It - Matt Duron. The world's oddest jobs – in pictures. George Saunders's Advice to Graduates. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano. Michael Nyman, composer Jane Campion called me while I was in the middle of watching Neighbours one lunchtime.
We had never met, so I asked her "Why me? " She said she thought I was the one who could present a visual emotional world with the smallest number of notes in the shortest space. Then there was a slight pause and she said: "I don't want any of that Greenaway shit. " She wanted a different style from the music I'd written for The Draughtsman's Contract, and the three other films I'd scored for Peter Greenaway in the 1980s. Jane had the vision to see, through that music, that I could do the emotion she wanted. My more rough-and-ready, high-energy stuff would have been totally inconceivable for The Piano, so Jane forced me to do other things.
Reading this on mobile? Strangely, although the soundtrack sounds very easy and improvised, getting the right voice was difficult.
British children 'unhappiest in the world', say academics. Wendy Ellyatt, the group’s development director, who is also an author and consultant in early education, said the launch reflected growing concerns over the state of modern childhood.
It will campaign on a range of issues covering education, health, technology and commercial pressures that hamper children’s development, she suggested. The move follows the publication of a landmark report from Unicef last year that found British parents were trapping their children in a cycle of "compulsive consumerism" by showering them with toys and designer labels instead of spending quality time with them. This came after a 2007 study by the UN children's agency ranked Britain bottom out of 21 developed countries for child welfare and third from bottom for educational standards.
The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever. By Internet standards, a perfectly timed photo occurs when two of the following three conditions are met: 1.
Perfect Place 2. Perfect Time 3. Perfect Angle Sometimes the holy trinity of perfectness is achieved and you get an Internet classic like so many of the photographs below. Enjoy! Photograph by MARTIN BERNETTI (via rusrep.ru) Joshua Bell Plays in a Subway Station. Forwarded email describes what happened when acclaimed classical violinist Joshua Bell appeared incognito on a subway platform in Washington, D.C. one cold winter morning and played his heart out for tips.
Description: Forwarded email Circulating since: Dec. 2008 Status: True (see details below) Example:Email text contributed by Bill B., Dec. 17, 2008: A Violinist in the Metro A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes.
NASA or MOMA? Play the Game! - Megan Garber. Here are some pictures.
Were they taken in space, or painted here on Earth? One of the most enduring and inspiring side effects of space exploration is the pictures -- pictures of Earth taken from new heights; pictures of Earth's neighbors, taken from new angles; pictures that resemble, and in fact are, art. They are magical. They are mysterious. A week's worth of groceries. Recite. Multimedia. The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people. The first clue that things are done very differently on Bastoy prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway's capital, comes shortly after I board the prison ferry.
I'm taken aback slightly when the ferry operative who welcomed me aboard just minutes earlier, and with whom I'm exchanging small talk about the weather, suddenly reveals he is a serving prisoner – doing 14 years for drug smuggling. He notes my surprise, smiles, and takes off a thick glove before offering me his hand. Gabriele galimberti. If Riverboom’s photographer Gabriele Galimberti had happened to shoot me, aged 6 and surrounded by my favorite toys, he would have seen the following: plastic medieval weaponry; assorted Lego (Space, Castle and Pirate); an inflatable Tyrannosaurus rex (punctured slowly into extinction); a Superman action figure (I lost it and hyperventilated with grief); a pair of cuddly rabbits (Sally and Billy); toy cars; a tiny guitar; a plane you launched with an elastic catapult; a replica pistol I thought my mum didn’t know about.
Everyone remembers their childhood toys. The fact that I can recall how most of mine tasted better than I can remember the names of my primary school teachers says everything you need to know about the universe kids inhabit. Students' rooms: 1890s v 2010s. 15 February 2013Last updated at 06:22 ET By Vanessa Barford BBC News Magazine Continue reading the main story A trove of 19th Century photographs (recreated above) of students at Royal Holloway University gives a rare insight into Victorian accommodation.
Students have always used their rooms to express their personality, but how has it changed over the past 100 years?