A Hibiscus Blosom

Red Tides

Red Tides occur when algae blooms. Sometimes the algae can be toxic to animal life.

Magnetic Liquid in Art

Magnetic Liquid (4 minutes)

A World of Irises

Irises

Yo Yo Ma plays cello

Finally - Something about Taste!

Electrophysical studies, whereby electrical activity of taste receptors is measured in the presence of taste stimuli, demonstrate that the vast majority of taste receptors fire electrical signals, and hence elicit a taste sensation, in the presence of all the basic tastes. So much for receptor specificity, the cornerstone concept underling the taste map.

Natural Wonder

Nora Jones- Come Away with Me accompanied by Stained Glass

Nora Jones – Come Away with me and Stained Glass




Fractals, colour and light with music of Mandelbrot, Bach and Newton (2 min.)

The Beauty of Cooperation

Beauty of Cooperation

Just in Time?

Google Earth Finds Mazes of the World

Mazes are an old art form and there are many around the world. In this wonderful clip Google Earth finds them for us. We get a bird's eye view of their patterns and beauty.

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Lego Pop-up

People and an Art Puzzle

A Day in the Life of an Escher Drawing

Day in the life of an Escher Drawing

Light Stained bright

Stained Light 3 minutes




Mightsight 6 minutes

Yo Yo Ma and Bobby McFern Share their Gifts

YoYo Ma and Bobby McFern Hush Little baby

A Silent Paper Explaination

The Art of Making it Understandable

This short clip of animation makes so many things within the human body more comprehensible. I loved it!

Zen Garden

Seven minutes of music and beauty in a Zen Garden

Rollercoaster Rides!

I thought that the image of a roller coaster and the potential for a ride to work was fun. Forget about it being an ad and just enjoy the ride!


Rollercoaster

Dance the art of Movement

The athleticism of dance today is astounding and inspiring. The young dancers today are olympians of dance in my estimation. I came across this clip and felt admiration and inspiraton. Maybe you will enjoy it too. I think it is an ad but who cares!

Tomorrow's Child- Safer because of Ray Anderson's campaign

This short poem was written by an employee of Ray Anderson's company, Interface. Anderson is the owner of a carpet factory who read a book and was conviced of being a 'plunderer'. He has become an evangelist for sustainable manufacturing.


Tomorrow’s Child


Without a name; an unseen face
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow’s Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.

A wise friend introduced us two,
and through his shining point of view
I saw a day that would see;
a day for you, but not for me.

Knowing you has changed my thinking,
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you.

Tomorrow’s Child, my daughter-son,
I’m afraid I’ve just begun
To think of you and of your good,
though always having known I should.

Begin I will to weigh the cost
of what I squander; what is lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.



Glen Thomas - employee Interface

Rives and the Internet

The True Face Of Leonardo DaVinci

Artist and apparent art dectective, Siegfried Woldhek, has discovered the true face of the ancient master.

Beatbox Music

Arthur Ganson -Sculptor Man Child

Arthur Ganson


This sculptor has grown up and yet he was able to bring the whole of himself forward into adulthood. He tells us that the little boy he once was felt painfully shy and learned to express his love through created objects.

To me it feels as though he has retained something magical, joyful and meaningful that I often feel that I have lost and must find again.

Seeing the World in a Single Flower

Nellie McKay Pays Tribute to Cloning

Nellie McKay sings CLONIE

A Clownfish Smile

National Geographic

A bit of Social Commentary in Song

Life in Colour

The National Geographic website has a series of photos called: Life in Color.
It is worth a visit just to bathe in the colours of the world and the richness of the photographers' view through their camera lenses.

A Thousand Ways to Play

I am sharing this example of origami folding done by Bruno Boden of Google while accompanied by Rufus Cappadocia on his cello. It is a wonderful example of how many different kinds of play that there are. This is an example of what psychologists call coplay. In early social development, children play next to each other in proximity but do not truly interact. I think this is an adult version of that.

I also wonder how much his love of origami built his other mental skills. Bruno Bowden was part of the team at Keyhole, the company that built EarthViewer lets you fly smoothly over an image of the globe assembled from satellite photos, and then zoom in on your own house. When Google bought Keyhole, Bowden helped turn the software into the indispensable Google Earth. Recently, he's moved over to the Google Gadgets side, helping to build more gotta-have-it technology.

Frans Lanting and The Planets Journey

In this amazing presentation Frans Lanting a wild life photographer who has worked for National Geographic chronicles the journey that the life on our planet has undertaken since the dawn of time. Narrated in his own voice, this presentation was made at this year's TED conference. I loved it. I hope you do too.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

What a time to be alive! At the touch of my fingers I can find new treasures the second my imagination or curiousity coughs up a question. I found this treasure on Youtube. You might have already seen it but if so it is worth seeing again. It was assembled by Philip Scott Johnson and posted in 2007.

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

Music: Bach's Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma
Nominated as Most Creative Video 2nd Annual YouTube Awards
For a complete list of artists and paintings visit http://www.maysstuff.com/womenid.htm
High resolution version:
http://www.vimeo.com/1456037
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Cultures, Tribal Art and Myth Around the World

An Anthropologist, Wade Davis, comments on the human art and power of many cultures and bestows a deep respect upon each.

Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture

Oops! I forgot to let you know that the artist is Tom Shannon, a man who is dealing with Parkinsons. Here are some of his very fascinating sculptures

Memories

Memories are tricky things. Remember when Scrooge tried to explain away Marley's visit as "a cheat of memory".  I hope that when you "put your records on" they bring you peace, happiness and joy.

Time to Play

How often do you play? Do you play at all?

Many of us left play behind when we were children but it has much to offer to us as adults- and I do not just mean the few occassions that we play when we are drawn into it with children. In those circumstances we pretend to do it for the child or worse yet just do it for the child. I don' think I mean the competitive "play" that many engage in for organized sports either.

We must relearn play with the end of rediscovering a part of ourselves that we left behind.
Here are a few suggestions:

1. Let sand run through your hands or rub your hands over a velvet fabric or play with playdough (perhaps I'll find the recipe and post it in a future blog).
2. Get some paint and mix colours together one at a time and enjoy the sensation of the distinct and then the blended colours.
3. Lay on the grass on a summer's night and really see the stars and feel the grass.
4. Listen to the different sounds that striking a spoon against different things creates - a jar, a can, a pot
5. Sit and just create different rhythms by hitting your knees or slapping a table.
6. Use a whole variety of cookie cutters with play dough or cookie dough just to create or sculpt.
7. Jump on a trampoline and do not see it as exercise but as creative movement.
8. Sing the silliest song you know. Or whistle it.
9. Rhyme a chain of eleven words
10. Build a model of something from a kit or get a puzzle and enjoy putting it together.

OK, I've started you off with ten suggestions. Come up with a couple better ones of your own and do them first.
I suggest starting off by playing this way alone. In child development, little ones learn to play alone even in a group before they learn to co-play side by side and then genuinely play together. Repeating the process might be a good chance to experience it in a new way.

Have fun!

More musical and fun Science

Joyful Science

This seems like a simple clip and yet, can you imaging getting a group coordinated for such complexity without coaching words or advance warning?