"The Craft Group" plus...

Here you are Mums... The things you might say in 24 hours reduced into 2 minutes and 55 seconds. It's been around on the internet for a while but I thought it was fun for Mother's Day. The video is not great quality but there are captions so you can know what she is singing. (Make sure you click on the cross in the corner of the ad when it pops up to get rid of it!) HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!!

OK, so "flashmobs" are becoming a bit too common and that has taken the 'wow' out of them a bit (especially when my local grocery store did one as an advertising stunt with 'staff' suddenly burst into song! That was weird). Anyway, I just came across another one which was done in Copenhagen in May this year. It combines my love of spontaneity, music and Europe. Enjoy... and have a great weekend!

Isn't it lovely when someone says something nice? Maybe we should all have a sign to remind us all to "Say Something Nice" more often :) This is fun. Watch this...

As you already know... Cartoons are made up of 1000's of different drawings, each one slightly different than the previous one. Animations like "Wallace and Gromit" and "Pingu" are the same, except that photos are used instead of drawings. They make up a scene, take a photo, change the scene slightly, take another photo and repeat this 100's or 1000's of times to make something which, when played in quick succession, looks like a moving picture. This is called Stop Motion Animation.Very creative, effective and time consuming! Watch this one. It is the largest in scale of its kind. When you watch it, just remember that the fisherman in the boat is a real person. It's bigger than you think. After clicking on it, click again to see it slightly bigger. Then at the end, click on "WATCH THE MAKING OF HERE". Very interesting. What does this have to do with Craft? Well isn't it the same thing we do all the time? 1000's of stitche...

Imagine if someone set up a real race atmosphere around a kids carousel ride in a park! Well the people at Improv Everywhere did it and I LOVE it. It makes me smile.