Take note iPhone users who record video! (I must admit, this drive me nuts!) **Video contains 2 censored expletives

Wish I thought of this. What a great idea for a children’s book. So simple. Really wish I thought of this.

Find it on Amazon.

Here’s a great music video clip directed by Lilfuchs for the short Flying Lotus cut “Zodiac Sh*t” from their excellent Cosmogramma album. You don’t really see animation like this anymore. It reminds me of that pinball counting video from Sesame Street, but with hallucinogenics. View the video below or via Adult Swim.

To be honest, I completely forgot my friends and I got involved with the Star Wars Uncut project several months ago. To those who do not know, organisers asked people to sign up and remake the original Star Wars movie by contributing 15 second clips. I blogged about it before and showed our clips here and here. Well it looks like the project is now done.

You can watch the entire remake here.

The only problem is that it is a little difficult to fast forward. However, this has to be one of the coolest collaborative projects ever! If I taught film, I would show this to students to demonstrate the different possibilities available. There are low budget clips, even cheaper clips, but there are also some very competent technical clips as well. My only regret is that we didn’t go a little more flash developing ours. Anyway, I have to get back to watching it to see if our clips were included.

This blog has suffered of late as I am taking an online course that is eating up all my free time. I will try to post some relevant ICT stuff soon. In about a month, I will also start planning a new grade 7 unit on collage. To my surprise, I found this video via the excellent Modern Art for Kids blog, which I subscribe to. I love it when the universe aligns like this! Talk about coincidence. It’s a pretty good video and I recommend you check out the blog as well, especially if you teach elementary art.

Jeremy Messersmith – Tatooine from Eric Power on Vimeo.

With the new Tron movie coming out this year and the soundtrack being done by Daft Punk, I stumbled across this video of how to make a Daft Punk helmet in 749 steps (and 17 months) by replica and prop maker Harrison Krix. Interesting!

With my 330 student reports done, I must just remember to breathe. As Alice Cooper sang, school is out for summer. I am officially on summer holiday. My entries here on this blog will most likely be infrequent over the holidays. Enjoy yours as well.

(Thanks to Dan Pink)

A mosaic portrait of Van Gogh was recently created in Tokyo out of polo shirts courtesy of apparel maker Onward Kashiyama. 20 staff members spent 3 hours creating the design using 2,070 shirts. The work was on display in the lobby of the Marunouchi Building in Tokyo. You can watch a quick 1 and a half minute video of it here (sorry, for some reason recently, Edublogs is not allowing me to embed videos. Uurgh…frustrating!)

Head over to JibJab and put yourself into Star Wars. (Hey, it’s Friday and I have student reports looming. I need something to distract me.)

This is my type of digital storytelling! (Thanks Tim B.)

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