This teeny tiny stop motion animation film features an animated 3D character that is only 9 millimeters high!
It was created on order to demonstrate the power of the camera on the Nokia N8 mobile phone with a microscope attachment called CellScope. It was created by Sumo Science at Aardman Animations (the people behind Wallace & Grommit). Read more about it here.
And check out the amazing “making of” video too!
Meet Ella ja Aleksi, a Finnish musical group featuring two four-year-old rappers. Need I say more? (via boingboing)
Monkey Truck from Michael Slack on Vimeo.
Michael Slack is a kick-ass artist/illustrator with a slew of super fun and stylish books for kids. This video above is an adorable promo video for his latest book Monkey Truck. He’s a truck, he’s a monkey, he likes adventures. What more could you ask for? You can buy it at Amazon and in bookstores. (via boingboing)
If you like Michael Slack’s art, here’s his website: http://slackart.com/
Steph Baxter is an illustrator who does lovely things including loads of sweet kids prints which you can buy at her Etsy shop. What an awesome and unique baby gift don’t ya think? Plus they all seem to be standard sizes so you can pop it in a nice IKEA frame for your extra awesome gift giving convenience. (via print & pattern)
On the lookout for cute free fonts for your blog graphics or for crafty purposes of one kind or another? I recently scoured the awesome and voluminous free font site dafont.com for the cutest free fonts and dingbats and here’s just a sampling of my favorites. It was so hard to narrow it down!
HeyBoy! HeyGirl! by Lars Manenschijn
Crushed Out Girl by Blue Vinyl
I’m absolutely in love with this chorus of 5th graders from a school Staten Island, NY called PS22. They do covers of songs ranging from Eminem, to Crowded House, to Lady Gaga, to this cover above of “Lisztomania” by the indie band Phoenix. Aside from the covers of the songs which are so fun to hear what I love best is how much fun they are having and how into the experience they are! Rock on!
Check out PS22’s YouTube channel to see and hear more of their songs.
P.S. Here’s Phoenix performing this song if you’re in the mood… Such a great song.
I love these collectible mini plush by U.K. art & design team TADO. I think the blackbird is my favorite although it is hard to choose! Find them at kidrobot.
OK Go’s latest music video is totally impressive as always. It is comprised entirely of photos of pieces of toast with images burned into them. I also love this statement on the video’s YouTube page:
“All 215 loaves of bread used in the making of this video were past their sell-by date and rescued from the clutches of certain disposal.”
I love the sweet, simple, edgy works by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Here’s just one adorable example. This sweet print is for sale (along with lots of others) at artforthemasses’ store on eBay.
Build Anything from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
Awesomely clever use of perspective. And legos. (via Doobybrain)