Crocodiles!

Rube Goldberg Forever! The Contraption II

Games Galore!

Wowza Zowza Wooee! There's so many games here to play (but don't tell anyone).

Animals With Recognizable Expressions: Disapproving Rabbits

One day there will be a book about everything. Or rather, one day every thing will have had a book written about it. Why not start with annoyed rabbits?

Disapproving Rabbits gives you a new grumpy floppy eared friend every day. Check it out!

Hey NYC! Holiday Hackshop Tommorow

Eyebeam delivers the fun for the whole family. Hack it up NoseBrigade!

Styles of Animation #8: Studio Spin Off

Pixar wants you to think about UP. We happen to like that movie so we are happy join in the thinking.

Let's Go To The Smithsonian's Museum Of Natural History

The comprehensive virtual tour allows the visitor to take a virtual, self-guided, room-by-room walking tour of the whole museum. The visitor can navigate from room to room either by using a floor map or by following blue arrow links connecting the rooms. Camera icons indicate hotspots where the visitor can get a close-up on a particular object or exhibit panel.

Check it out here.

Cute Overload: "Frog At Peace"

Three Dimensions In Two: Build Your Own Mandala

A mandala is "a microcosm of the universe from the human perspective".

The Rubin Museum in NYC has a fun program to build and print your own Mandala. The site also tells you what each pattern represents so you can find the meaning to the beauty.

Check it out here.

Cute Overload: "Surprised Kitten"

"oh, you look like a little monkey"

Hey NYC! Meet A Lego Pro Tomorrow

Tomorrow at 2p-4P Lego Master Sean Kenny unveils a new sculpture at the Time Warner Center.

legos! Legos!! LEGOs!!!

You can never have enough Legos in your bowl. Or at least in our bowl. Luckily the internet keeps filling it up.

Slide show of how Legos are made.

Historical Lego Mini-figs.

Yee haw!

Bohemian Rhapsody

I guess this song became a "classic" because it is so silly. I never got it otherwise. It seems designed for Karoake but it came out BEFORE people did that. Go figure. Well this version totally captures the pure silliness inside.

And then afterwards your entire household can sing operatically all day -- just sayin'...

Jellyfish! JELLYfish!! JELLYFISH!!!

We need more zooplankton in our bowl! And there are already zillions! You gotta love the Nat Geo Kids site. They have even more great vids. When the parents start complaining that you do don't surf enough educational web sites, just show them this:

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/kids/animals-pets-kids/invertebrates-kids/plankton-jelly-kids.html

(thanks to Merry Traum for this!)

Styles of Animation #7: Salt Drawing

Is salt that much different than sand? Aleksandra Korejwo can answer that for you. In follow up to yesterdays excursion into the sand bowl, we bring you this for those noses with a different taste.

Although the description says that this one is band to sand:

One of the things I like most about this type of animation, is how it demonstrates how many different things are going on at once. You can see a bit of story, there is color and shape and how they both mix, and then there is the element of time and how the other elements communicate with it, changing over the course of the animation.

Styles of Animation #6: Sand Drawing

Kseniya Simonova's from The Ukraine. And here she is on Ukaraine's Talent Show. Here in our bowl, we rate her higher than that Boyle woman, but what do we know? We know we like drawing and we've never seen it done this way. Both the image and the artist dances throughout. The text tells us that is a story of when Germany invaded the Ukaraine in WW2, but even without knowing that we were fascinated. If it is live, is it still animation?

Bouncing Balls

Okay, we are placing bouncing balls in a bigger bowl. What can we say it? There's something about an out of control ball that just makes us happy. Balls, balls, balls, balls, balls, and more balls.

Sorry about posting a commercial but sometimes a nose has just got do what it's gotta do.

Game:Crayon Physics

Crayon Physics is a bit like the iPhone app Trace, so it looks like a lot of fun. It won the Independent Games Award in 2008, whatever that is.

Crayon Physics Deluxe from Petri Purho on Vimeo.

We've put it on our wish list in the Bowl. It is a 2D physics puzzle / sandbox game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. Check out their website for more details.

Even Little Dummies Can Sing!

Some say this is the weirdest Beatles' cover EVER! We wish they sang on our corner every weekend.

Thanks BoingBoing!

Our Favorite Monsters: Mr. Can Can Man

Okay, so he speaks French and we can not understand. But we know he cares about recycling and we really dig how he looks so we just had to put him in our bowl.

You can find him here. There are 4 or so different spots to view -- and you can tell your parents you are practicing French!