Animations
Grumpy Cloud Vs Rainbow Flipbook Animation
Flipbook fanatic and talented animator Andy Baily highlights the power of a positive attitude and a splash of color in this short and sweet video.
“Animation, flip-books, and short films! My name is Andy Bailey–I’m a stop-motion animator at Laika and worked on ParNorman, The Boxtrolls, and Kubo and the Two Strings.”
Find more flip book fun from Andy here: www.youtube.com/user/andymation/featured
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Cool Kids, Laugh Gallery
The Apparently Kid Steals The Show
This is a classic cute kiddo clip from 2014 that is still good for a grin!
While Newswatch 16’s Sofia Ojeda was reporting at the Wayne County Fair, young (and adorable) Noah Ritter from Wilkes-Barre stole the show during an interview. Noah was five years old and very excited to be starting kindergarten in the fall.
His hilarious interview was a viral hit, getting him airtime on The Ellen show, late night talk shows, a commercial and a spot T.V. show called “The Toy Box” where the kids review toys.
Find more from the awesome and adorable “apparently” kid here: http://wnep.com/tag/apparently-kid/
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Fun Facts
10 Surprising Fun Facts About Sesame Street
1.) According to Sesame Workshop, Elmo is the only non-human to testify before Congress. He lobbied for more funding for music education, so that “when Elmo goes to school, there will be the instruments to play.”
2.) Oscar the Grouch used to be orange. Jim Henson decided to make him green before season two. How did Oscar explain the color change? He said he went on vacation to the very damp Swamp Mushy Muddy and turned green overnight.
3.) One of Count von Count’s lady friends is Countess von Backwards, who’s also obsessed with counting but likes to do it backwards.
4.) In 1970, Ernie reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 with the timeless hit “Rubber Duckie.”
5.) Mr. Snuffleupagus has a first name—Aloysius.
9.) Caroll Spinney said he based Oscar’s voice on a cab driver from the Bronx who brought him to the audition.
8.) The show pays homage to ‘M*A*S*H’ Big Bird has a teddy bear named Radar, a tribute to the MASH character of the same name, who always sleeps with a teddy bear. Side note Big Bird is 8‘2”.
8.) A “Sesame Street” is named after the “Arabian Nights” phrase “Open, Sesame!” Show writer named Virginia Schone proposed the word “Sesame.” because it made it feel like it was loaded with a sense of adventure. The show was already set on an urban street, so “Sesame Street” just clicked.
9.) The Count is millions of years old. His birthday is on October 9, 1,830,653 B.C.
10.) In 1980, C-3PO and R2-D2 visited Sesame Street. They played games, sang songs, and R2-D2 fell in love with a fire hydrant
This old school video was created by Sesame Street.
“Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop, a nonprofit educational organization which also produces Pinky Dinky Doo, The Electric Company, and other programs for children around the world.”
For more fun games and videos for your preschooler in a safe, child-friendly environment visit: www.sesamestreet.org
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Good News, Smile
Blind Veterans Kayak The Grand Canyon
“The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.”
– Nelson Mandela
In this inspiring video, give brave and inspiring blind veterans kayak 226 miles down the Grand Canyon – including class 5 whitewater under the leadership of blind veteran Lonnie Bedwell.
This amazing feat was In honor of Veteran’s Day and all of those who have given so much. Google partnered with the non-profit Team River Runner, an organization dedicated to providing all veterans and their families an opportunity to find health, healing, and community purpose.
Together they set out on making this wild dream come true to “to invigorating and inspiring others to get out and do whatever they seek to achieve.”
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Name Generators
Which Disney Character Are You Quiz
Disney movies have now become a timeless part of generations of childhoods.
Find out which character is your Disney spirit with this interactive and fun quiz by Oh My Disney.
They may ask you a lot of silly questions like which Disney Character you would want to be president or how many eggs Gaston eats a day but the results are entertaining!
Take this imaginative quiz here!
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Smile
Collection Of Funny Maps
“Not all maps are useful. Some maps show.. nothing in particular. However, as the page ‘Terrible Maps’ proves, you can still have fun with them! This tongue-in-cheek collection of cartography-based memes and jokes is sometimes absurd and other times surprisingly informative, but always good old fashioned fun with geography! Scroll down below to check them out for yourself.
This collection of funny maps was created by Ligitas Nefas who has been fascinated with maps since she was a child.
Find more of his interesting articles on Bored Panda here: www.boredpanda.com
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Infographics
The Worlds Weirdest Festivals
This is a colorful and visual infographic highlighting some of the world’s most interesting, wonderful and strange festivals. From festivals that encourage food fights, to the wife carrying championships, the world truly is a strange and wonderful place!
This fun infographic was created by Sharla for Daily Infographic.
“Learn Something New Everyday. At Daily Infographic we strive to curate the most interesting infographics on the web. We scour the internet for data visualizations with the best content and design to bring easily consumed facts and figures to our users.” Daily Infographic
Find more visual infographics Daily Infographic here: www.dailyinfographic.com/
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Good News, Smile
World’s Oldest Barber Turns 107
Anthony Mancinelli who turned 107 years old this year takes pride and joy in being the world’s oldest barber.
Born in 1911 near Naples, Italy, and eight years later sailed to the United States with his family, arriving in New York on September 11, 1919 and began cutting hair at just ten years old in 1921. He remembers it well, recalling how a haircut only cost you 25 cents.
He has now worked at that barbershop for an incredible 97 years! When asked about retirement, he replied, “Why would I?”
He’s considered one of the most reliable employees at the salon, cutting hair five days a week for 8 hours a day.
“He never calls in sick,” Fantastic Cuts owner Jane Dinezza said. “I have young people with knee and back problems, but he just keeps going. He can do more haircuts than a 20-year-old kid. They’re sitting there looking at their phones, texting or whatever, and he’s working.”
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Smile
Improv Everywhere Transforms Little League Game Into Major League
With the help of the fun-loving Improv Everywhere, a little league baseball game is turned into a major league event!
“All players, coaches, and parents do not know what is happening. We worked with the league commissioner to get the kids’ names and access to the field to set up our equipment on the morning of the game. He was the only one in on it. NBC Sports worked with us and got us the jumbotron and the blimp.” Improv Everywhere
This video was created By Improv Everywhere
“We are a New York City-based prank collective that causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places.” Improv Everywhere
Find more smiles from them here: www.youtube.com/user/ImprovEverywhere/featured
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All About Art, Comics and Cartoons
Comic Feature – Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg was an inventor, an engineer, and a sculptor and multi-award-winning cartoonist who drew incredible and amusing contraptions. His Rube Goldberg machines live on to this day in physics classes and popular media. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948 for his editorial cartoon “Peace Today which conveyed a warning against atomic weapons.
Rube Goldberg was born to Jewish parents on July 4, 1883 in San Fransisco. He began drawing at a young age, to such an extent that his parents arranged professional drawing lessons for him at the age of 11. His father encouraged him to study engineering and he earned a degree from the University of California in 1904. He took a job designing sewer pipes for the San Francisco Sewer Department
A few months later he became a sportswriter and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Bulletin. He also briefly worked for the New York Evening Mail, creating three long-running comic strips. His most popular drawings depicted complex gadgets that performed even the simplest tasks in convoluted, elaborate ways, known as Rube Goldberg machines.
Rube was fascinated by the advancement of technology and thought it humorous as people either embraced change and the benefits technology brought or were reluctant as it seemingly increased dependency and laziness. He personally believed people preferred choosing a more difficult route instead of completing a goal simply and directly.
As he said, “the machines are a symbol of man’s capacity for exerting maximum effort to achieve minimal results”
His inventions were interesting as he did the complete opposite of what most machines do – instead of making difficult things easy, he made easy things difficult. On his “Rube Goldberg Machine” work, he would spend over 30 hours on each piece with close attention to precision regarding the lines and details. n his cartoons, they were created by a character called Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts.
The National Cartoonists Society, in which Goldberg was the first president, named the Rueben Award in his honour, to recognize the “Cartoonist of the Year”.He also received several awards from the National Cartoonists Society including the Gold T-Square Award in 1955, the 1969 Rueben Award and the Gold Key Award, after his death in 1970. To further add to this list of accomplishments, he won the Banshee’s Silver Lady Award in 1959, he was a co-founder of the Famous Artists School , President of the Artists and Writers Club and a member of the Society of Illustrators. To this day high schools and universities worldwide, there are Rube Goldberg contests which challenge students to create intricate machines to do easy tasks
“I do not count the years. Tomorrow is just another day to create something I hope will be worthwhile.” Rube Goldberg
SOURCES: BIOGRAPHY, WIKIPEDIA, STUDY, RUBE GOLDBERG
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All About Art, Smile
People Find Their Twins In Art
This hilarious and mind-bending trend nicknamed “Art Doppelgangers” has everyday folks taking photos next to paintings in museums and art galleries that they share an uncanny resemblance to.
Scroll through the slideshow to see just how strange and funny Art Doppelgangers are!
FUN FACT: The term doppelganger is a German word meaning “double-goer”. To have a doppelganger simply means having a look-alike or twin, although according to many traditions, a doppelganger is a sign of a paranormal phenomenon. The term could be used in a completely neutral manner, but most of the time a doppelganger signifies the presence of an evil twin or some other dark mischief. SOURCE SO BAD SO GOOD
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Good News, Smile
Hong Kong Superstar Donates His Entire Fortune
Chow Yun-Fat, a self-professed Buddhist and beloved and notoriously humble movie star and from Hong Kong recently announced that he will be donating his entire fortune over $714 million to various charities.
PHOTO CREDIT E.T. CANADA
The mega movie star accumulated his grand fortune from starring in over 90 films over 40 years of famous box office hits such films as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, A Better Tomorrow, and The Replacement Killers, and Pirates of the Caribbean.
He has won three Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Actor and two Golden Horse Awards for Best Actor. The Los Angeles Times once called him “the coolest actor in the world”.
“The money doesn’t really belong to me, I am only in charge of it temporarily,” he told reporters when he first revealed the plans for his fortune.
PHOTO CREDIT PETER MOUNTAIN
According to Chinese news outlet ET Today, Yun-Fat despite his wealth and stardom he has always lived a humble life spending only about $100 ( USD) per month ($800 HKD). He takes public transit whenever he can, buys his clothes at second-hand stores he and his wife prefer to eat at food stalls over fancy restaurants. He only recently bought a smartphone after the Nokia flip phone he owned for 17 years finally broke.
When asked why he likes to shop at discount shops despite his tremendous net worth, Chow replied “I don’t wear clothes for other people. I just wear whatever I find comfortable.”
He and his wife say that they plan on giving the fortune away to a number of charities, in addition to their own foundation, which they Chow and his wife, Jasmine Tan, have set up their own foundation years ago, according to an earlier interview with Apple Daily hive.
“My dream is to be a happy and normal person,” Yun-Fat told ET. “The hardest thing in life is not about how much money you earn, but how to keep a peaceful mindset and live the rest of your life in a simple and carefree manner.”
PHOTO CREDIT CHOW YUN-FAT
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All About Art, Smile, Words of Wisdom
Words Of Wisdom – Bob Ross
Bob Ross, the painter, and television personality was an endearing, soothing, and extremely prolific artist who purportedly completed 30,000 paintings during his lifetime. What made this especially likable and talented painter truly different is that he truly believed that all of us could also be artists.
Ross’s gentle voice and warm demeanor captured the hearts of humans of all ages and artists of all levels worldwide. Bob spent 20 years in the United States Air Force and retired with the rank of master sergeant before transitioning into the happy painter we know today. He is quoted as saying “after yelling so much in the Air Force; he never wanted to yell at anyone again.”
As Robert Frost famously said “Way leads unto Way” and the Alaskan Mountains where he was stationed became iconic features in his paintings. While stationed there Ross indulged his creative side by painting his landscapes onto golden pans, which he sold for $25 each. Today, they can fetch as much as $7500 on eBay.
One of Bob Ross’s biggest influences was a German painter named Bill Alexander who hosted an art instruction show on PBS “The Magic of Oil Painting. He shared his “wet-on-wet” oil painting technique. Ross ended up studying under Alexander, who became his mentor in the early 1980s, and as Alexander was preparing to retire, he asked Ross to take over teaching his painting classes. Ross agreed and set out to tour the country on his own in a motor home, traveling and teaching people.
One of his students Annette Kowalski recognized his gentle and powerful positivity while taking a five-day instructional course with Ross in 1982. She became Ross’s manager, helping him broker the deal for The Joy of Painting television show with PBS. Despite its incredible popularity Bob Ross did the series for free, while his income came from Bob Ross Inc. which sold art supplies and how-to videotapes, taught classes, and even had a troupe of traveling art instructors who roamed the world teaching painting.
It’s been nearly 25 years since the sincere, gentle and very talented Bob Ross passed. His encouraging artistic mentor style continues to spread smiles and inspiration to artists of all ages. Below is just a few of some of his many magical quotes and a classic clip from his show. SOURCES MENTAL FLOSS, WIKIPEDIA & BIOGRAPHY
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