Mandolin Man
Oct 8, 2013
Learn how to play Mandolin with this fantastic little web game. You can even pick and play a variety of your favorite songs so you can be the one-man karaoke band for your entire family!
Tag Archive: imagination
Kids PMC Ride
Jul 9, 2013
It was a privilege to sponsor this year’s Kids PMC Ride. Over 50 kids diligently got sponsors and rode their butts off as they helped raise over $10,000 to fund cancer cure research. The money will generously go to provide Dana-Farber Cancer Institutes’s doctors and researchers with the necessary resources to discover cures for all cancers.
For more information on the Kid’s Ride program, check out their website.
http://www.kids.pmc.org/
Planet One
Jun 20, 2013Animation Director Andy Martin has been creating an alien a day at his Tumblr, Illustrated Aliens, and then uses those illustrations to help compose a monthly animated short about what their planet is like. Above, his January 2013 planet, Planet One, where the musical inhabitants get together and get a bit more than they bargained for.
You can find them all here on Vimeo or at AndyMartin.info.
Rubber Duck Project
Jun 5, 2013For the last month, the kids have been super into Florentijn Hofman’s Rubber Duck in Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour. On display until June 9, the Dutch artist’s six-story tall duck has previously floated around waters in Osaka, Sydney, Sao Paolo, and Amsterdam, and will soon be coming to a (currently secret) destination in the United States.
Check out more videos of this awesomeness right here.
Glowing Chucks
May 17, 2013Hey Gang! Check out this awesome DIY project about how to make your very own Glowing Chuck’s. Innovating wearable technology is right up our alley, so of course we love every bit of this radical make-it-yourself blog:
http://learn.adafruit.com/glowing-star-chucks/overview
From A to B
May 10, 2013This hidden camera adventure through the postal system, From A to B, began when Ruben van der Vleuten wanted to know, ”What happens when you send something by mail?”
So instead of sitting back I started a simple project to actually see it myself. I put a small camera in a box, build a timer circuit using Arduino and shipped it.
That’s as simple as it is. The timer circuit was set to make a 3 sec video every minute and make longer videos while the box was movin: to not miss on the ‘interesting’ parts.
…like conveyor belts! We love videos like this, not only because we get to see from a perspective that we’ve never seen before, but because it would make a great DIY project.
Elastic Park Acrocanthosaurus
May 8, 2013Watch a time-lapse video of how a 20-foot balloon acrocanthosaurus is made. The Airigami team assembled the dinosaur and its ecosystem, including some plants and some crawly insects, at the Virginia Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Ancient Life in four days.
Coming Soon: Character Mayhem!
May 7, 2013Our little team skater, Annika Vrklan, spends the day in Raskullz Studios laying down her very first ever voice over for some new character work. All great voice actors use lots of “hands”. Can someone say ‘Nailed it!’?
30 Days of Animation
Apr 23, 2013A character in a moment, one created each day for 30 consecutive days, animated as an exercise of skill and imagination by UK-based animator Geoff King. He writes:
“It was difficult to even think of what to animate most days. I spent a few hours on average for each day, sometimes it felt like all day. I originally intended to do them quicker but they usually didn’t get going till the late evening. This also meant all the days where only ‘first passes’ or ‘straight aheads’. After the first 5 days I realised I should try to maintain a reasonable quality. It wasn’t easy, a lot of time was spent hitting a wall but I had fun trying something different everyday.”
DIY.org
Apr 11, 2013Here’s a new promo for the fabulous website DIY.org. What we find so awesome about the site is the way it takes the idea of learning a new skill and turns the process into a game. We’re a big fan of fun & games here at Raskullz, and couldn’t be more stoked on the way they’ve taken the power of fun to the next level.