Month: March 2020

Cats and Domino – Cat Navi Desk

https://youtu.be/7Nn7NZI_LN4 Line after line of dominoes fall in front of, around, and sometimes because of two calm bell-ringing cats in Cats and domino, a beautifully composed screen-link video by Japan-based YouTuber Cat Navi Desk. See each cat watch and interact with the domino chain reaction that ultimately leads them to their prize: Freshly-dispensed cat food. You can…… Continue reading Cats and Domino – Cat Navi Desk

Pretty Little San Francisco

My grandmother’s tray holding some of the colors for this project.  The colors line up fairly well, no? Golden Gate Bridge Transamerica Tower Coit Tower Telegraph Hill Tower Pastel Row Houses Embarcadero Chinatown Gate Mission Delores Palace of Fine Arts Karl — The Fog Cable Cars

How to Pass the Salt While Social Distancing

https://youtu.be/nORRgU8sGdE Teapots pour. Laptops slide. Apples roll. Ping pong balls hover. Mushrooms and carrots rotate into place. An amazing amount of intricate food-themed contraptions come together to Pass the Salt in this collaboration between quirky Rube Goldberg machine creator Joseph’s Machines and chain reaction YouTuber Sprice Machines. How did the screen-linked machine come together? A lot of fails and adjustments. Joseph…… Continue reading How to Pass the Salt While Social Distancing

Catscapes – Lim Heng Swee

A Malaysian artist named Lim Heng Swee shared a big secret with the whole world. Turns out, we live on a cat planet, because they’re everywhere around us. They smartly blend into landscapes and become roads, clouds, and even mountains.

AGU’s Collection of Virtual Field Trips

Spring in the northern hemisphere is the time for students pile into vans with camping gear, rock hammers, pocket transits and field notebooks, and head out to explore the marvels of the Earth’s surface. It is a wonderful part of learning Earth science. But those trips are off as another kind of science — epidemiology…… Continue reading AGU’s Collection of Virtual Field Trips