MIKA - "GRACE KELLY"

Attention power-pop fans: this is the catchiest song I've heard in awhile.

If you're a fan of ELO, Queen, Bleu, L.E.O, or even Grace Kelly, you'll love it.

His name's Mika, and evidently he has a MySpace with more tracks, but I have yet to hear them because I can't stop playing the video for this one...

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Props to my friend Markus for sending me this via email this morning...

LIVE NUDE DINOS

My friend Kevin at work dug up this interesting video of a new live arena show based on the BBC's popular "Walking with Dinosaurs" documentaries, currently touring Australia.

Just as those TV shows re-create dinosaurs in stunning CGI detail, this live arena show re-creates a number of dinosaurs -- live, in full-scale, and seemingly autonomous -- through some really clever engineering and live puppetry. Quite impressive.

Be sure to check out the show's website, and take a look at the behind-the-scenes videos of these beasties under construction.

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SMART PRAISE

Thanks to citizenpep for posting this eye-opening article from New York magazine about how praising smart kids may actually have an adverse effect.

This article sort of fills in a lot of blanks for me.

( CAUTION: Self-Indulgent Mid-Life-Crisis Ramblings Ahead... )

DEEP PRINTING

Found on Ain't-It-Cool-News...

A 3D imaging company out of Montreal has developed a printing process that allows for a holographic image -- or up to eight seconds of video -- to be printed in full-color, high-resolution poster form. This is a pretty major step forward, well beyond the limitations of lenticular posters.

Click the picture to see video samples, including a test image they made for James Cameron, of one of the T-100 robots. Notice the range of motion on each poster, which covers an entire "pass" as you walk by -- and a few of them (like the soccer player) even show full motion (again, up to eight seconds). Pretty neat stuff.