Yiying Lu, the designer of The Fail Whale, made famous as the image symbolising a Twitter outage, has been commissioned by a San Francisco couple to create the ‘opposite of the fail whale’ to celebrate their marriage, according to Mashable.
The result (above) is titled Win Penguins. Aren’t they lovely? Hopefully these little fellows will see [...]
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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
The video above is not short, it is 20 minutes, it also not that new either, having been delivered in 2006, but it is well worth watching. The speaker, Sir Ken Robinson is a leading thinker on realising the potential of creativity and the importance of innovation. The talk is incredibly funny verging on a [...]
La Machine’s La Princesse awakens in Liverpool
Nothing like a 13 metre high mechanical spider walking through the streets to get you blogging.
Elizabeth and I trained our way up to Liverpool last night to check out La Machine’s latest creation that was commissioned as part of Liverpool’s European Capital of Culture.
The pics and the videos speak for themselves, but so, so very cool and nothing like you can imagine. It reminded me of a toy I had as a child – Spydor from the He Man Series (thanks to Toy Archive for the image).
Videos of La Princesse – http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=37963021220
Some other pics taken on the tour Elizabeth planned of the city:
The first glimpse coming up the street
Getting closer
Spitting out venom
The mechanical stuff
Turning the place over
Me with the Superlambanana (we have a mini version at home on our shelf)
Elizabeth getting arty with me at Albert Dock
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