These Lego creations by Nathan Sawaya are stunning and emotionally moving. They are currently touring the U.S. It's hard to believe that these museum-quality art works were made of materials were originally conceived to be toys.
I received a warning when I logged into my YouTube account recently. I had openly and with attribution used a couple of popular tunes in some of my videos. Those have been flagged as violations of copyrights, my account to be reviewed, and the videos may be pulled, or my account suspended. Meanwhile, those videos sport pop-up ads to buy the tunes. The two offending videos use tunes that had their heydays in the 1930's and 1970's. Even the children of the original creator and performer of the older tune are all dead. Is it right that some corporation is making a fuss over my sharing this with a few friends? There have been less than 75 views in the year since it's been posted. I see no reason to fight this. I'd be quite content to have ads pop up for the tunes I use. I even wish there were a mechanism in place to request ads to pay for use of related content. It's not so much that I like ads, but that I respect content creators. But I don't respect any right in perpetuity for corporations to hold creative rights once a creator and his direct heirs are out of the picture. Like McCartney having to pay the estate of Michael Jackson to use his own songs.
This clever French animation involves a fellow with a terrible fear of a door. Clever and worthwhile.
I've been looking for a video like this, showing an artist drawing sidewalk art. Pretty cool stuff. And here are some exquisite finished products.
2009's most incredible science photos, illustrations, and installations, published by National Geographic.
