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I Must Not Write All Over the Walls: Banksy Directs The Simpsons
Graffiti artist Banksy storyboarded and directed the opening sequence of The Simpsons last night (aka the "couch gag"). See it here.
News
Video: An Animated Timeline of America's Hunt for Bin Laden
A journey through the highs, lows, and cultural milestones on America's hunt for the CIA's Most Wanted Terrorist.
Culture
The Simpsons on Banksy Opening: "95 Percent of It Is Just the Way He Wanted"
An update on how the show retained the elusive artist and how they slipped such eviscerating jokes past Fox execs.
News
Animation: Every Nuclear Bomb Detonation from 1945 to 1998
The following animation by the artist Isao Hashimoto depicts every nuclear bomb explosion from 1945 to 1998. It's on the long side, but that's...
Culture
Intermission: Our Friend, the Atom
Walt Disney’s 1957 animated series "Our Friend, the Atom" was shown in public schools, at the request of the Eisenhower administration.
Education
Work at Pixar or Go to College: What About Both?
College track or career track? One Sacramento-area high school shows there's no difference between the two.
Design
Intermission: The Deep
This brilliant stop-motion animation by PES brings old metal tools and accessories to life as exotic creatures in an underwater ecosystem.
The Community Board
Your Morning Procrastination
Watching this clever video animation will help you not get started. Resulting in a kind of opposite of animation. Original Source: Stephen...
Education
Animated Short Sums Up America's Education Problem
If this is the way the world already views our education system, we better get to fixing things right away.
Culture
Dinosaur Ballet: A Timeless Animated Short
Ross Butter's wonderful animated short film "Dinosaur Ballet" (video after the jump) is simply perfect. The texture. The color. The teeth. I...
The Community Board
VIDEO: Things to Learn
Christian Borstlap recently finished these deliciously simple animated illustrations for Dutch children's charity, Kinderpostzegels.Paul Postma...
Lifestyle
Feast Your Eyes: Bug Farming for Food, an Animated Introduction
What will it take to persuade Westerners to dial back our burger addiction in favor of bug farming? This new video animates our dilemma.
Culture
Intermission: Skateboardanimation
To create "Skateboardanimation," Tilles Singer cut out a number of digital and print skateboarding photographs and put them in stop-motion to...
Culture
Intermission: Beautiful Animation of Gareth Bale Playing Soccer
An artist spent 35 hours transforming video of soccer star Gareth Bale into an affecting animated short. It was worth every second.
The Community Board
Cradle 2 Cradle explained in 5 minutes
For everyone that wants to inspire others with the positive innovation philosophy of Cradle to Cradle in 5 minutes, show them this following...
The Community Board
Wake Up, Freak Out...
Leo Murray has created an animated short that tasks itself with clarifying the complexities and implications of climate change. I'd like to...
Education
Five Projects That Use Technology to Improve Education
Here are our five favorite projects from the Gates Foundation's education technology grant competition.
The Community Board
Big Stories. Tiny Anchor.
I originally wrote this post for my own site, but thought it might be a worthy re-blog.Meet Roger Numbers, the animated anchor of GOOD Magazine's...
