Animator Sydney Padua, in her blog, draws some insights about how different animals walk [click through, to get to her blog, and see the images much larger, and so read the writing that accompanies each drawing]: Here’s some of my notes on four-legged walks (our feature animal: COWS!) for a class I’m teaching at the Animation […]
Year: 2011
Ball squeezing and creativity
Want to be more creative? No problem, just take a ball and squeeze it (but only in your left hand, otherwise the consequences are as yet unknown). Dr. Abraham Goldstein (pictured – and who may or may not be squeezing a ball with his left hand) along with colleagues at the Brain Research Center of […]
100-trillion-dollar bills again fuel the economy
The Associated Press reports that Zimbabwe’s 100-trillion-dollar bills are again helping fuel the nation’s economy: Visitors snap up 100 trillion Zimbabwe bank notes HARARE, Zimbabwe – Western visitors to Zimbabwe are looking for zeros. They’re snapping up old, defunct Zimbabwe bank notes, most notably the one hundred trillion Zimbabwe dollar bill, as an economic souvenir. […]
Mel at a Convention
Dr. Vreeland Heiss writes: [AIR 16:2] My uncle came into possession, shortly after the world war in the 1940s, of this photo which shows Mel, the little man who always appears in your pages. I have drawn the customary arrow to indicate his location in the image. Perhaps your readers can help me identify the […]