This is the freebie for today's fishbowl, inspired by a prompt from Dreawidth user Siberian_skys. It also fills the "colorful area rug" square in my 11-1-24 card for the Sleepytime Bear Bingo. It belongs to the LIFC series.

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"Let It Go" in ASL (Amber Zion & Jason Listman) as Elsa & Ellis

This is a music video created in American Sign Language out of love towards Frozen's hit song, “Let It Go." This music video was created with a team consisting of a 100% deaf cast and crew. We believe in supporting deaf people everywhere and allowing the sign language community ( Read more... )

The music from Sister Act  has become popular with girl choirs.   The same song appears in this flash mob.

This reunion features a different song.

I've always loved the movie.  It was a great comedy.  But more than that, it held a lot of truth.  It spoke to a very real problem: people leaving the church ("Because it's a drag!") and the challenge of ( Read more... )

The whole movie condensed into a few minutes.  <3

I am particularly impressed by the combination of dancing and music, and by the structural costume near the end.

Now active from Steve Jackson Games: Girl Genius Sourcebook and Roleplaying Game.  Based on the creations of Phil & Kaja Foglio, this is already funded and has 16 days to go.  Available in PDF or hardcopy.

Kendama is a skill toy with 3 different cups, a spike, and a ball on a string.  It belongs to the family of catch-the-thing dexterity toys like ball-and-cup or ring-and-spike toys.  However, this example is much more involved.  Watch closely and you will see that every part of it is carefully engineered.  The ridges and hollows aren't idle ( Read more... )

This is one of my favorite songs, because it can be tweaked so easily.  I've heard it with banjos, tubas, bagpipes, and hammered dulcimers.  This one uses banjo and guitar, but riffs the tune more than usual.

And yes, it has been used for cape challenges in Terramagne.  Because why the hell not.

Well, that guy is crazy. 

For the International Day of Peace, there is a new release of the song "Peace Train," recorded by people from around the world.  I'm fascinated by all the different backgrounds.  :D

I wish this was the sort of thing that people actually wanted enough to make it happen, instead of the clusterfuck we have now.

This is the best stop-motion animation video I have seen since the candy video games.

Things that impress me about "Matches" include:

* It does many different things with one core prop and a few supporting props.  This is a great exercise for any film class: have students draw an ordinary item from a box and do as much as they possibly can with it ( Read more... )