31 Dec 2012

Mughal art at the British Library

Look at the British Library website for a preview of the current exhibition of art from Mughal India (from 16th to 19th century). The detail in the paintings is amazing, and the British Library website lets you zoom in on some of the pictures to see the detail. For example, Try the squirrels in the plane tree.

29 Dec 2012

Two brilliant stop-motion animations to watch.

First is DOT

The world's smallest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8

Next is GULP

The world's largest stop-motion animation character shot on a Nokia N8

Both were created to show off the possibilities of the Nokia N8 camera phone. GULP was made on a beach in Wales. See the videos which shows how they made them!

The making of DOT:

The making of GULP:

I told Tiger how in school, pupils do lessons in stuff we do everyday, like personal, social, and health education.

Tiger thought about that.

Then she said, I want a place where you put up assignments in citizenship.

I thought about that.

I have come up with this. It's probably not entirely citizenship. It will be that, plus a house of online curiosities for Tiger and her sisters.

Sometimes it will cover much the same ground as a conventional PSHE lesson.

Sometimes it will just be a place to collect ideas, whimsy, and odd stuff I'd like to share. It may be that this is what we might call being a person, or being a citizen.

I don't know. I don't expect it will make any sense unless you are Tiger, Shark, or Squirrel, and sitting round my kitchen table.

Back to grit's day.