Category Archives: Art

Kung Fury Proof That Low Budget Can Equal High Quality (no more excuses for the creative elite)

Kung Fury is a visual feast for the eyes. Built by Swedish based Laser Unicorns, the 30 minute feature is quite possibly the most entertaining action satire since Kill Bill. It’s impressive what can be done with the right post-production effects….This film proves that good visual effects are now within the reach of modestly financed organisations. There is a diminishing viability of the  excuse that your creative ideas cannot be realised because of technology constraints and therefore bringing your effects into reality is more feasible than ever before. The only constraint is time and the limits of your imagination.

SimFarm: How to learn best?

There are so many things that can be learned from playing SimFarm. The value of money, planning etc. The game is not dogmatic either, it doesn’t tell the player how to best go about planning out a farm. But I wonder if that freedom allows those kids to discover how best to build a farm. Since the game does not provide competitors to directly copy from, players do not realise that they can squeeze in another crop of oranges if they time it right, for example. I would think a tutorial on how to build the best farm would have been helpful or at least some computer generate competitors in order to provide context and reference points….

Cut Out Of Big Ben For The Crafty Mind

This Is A Cut Out Of Big Ben

Here is a really fun print-able cut out of Big Ben that kids will love as well as creative people of all ages. It’s a compact version but with a colour ink or jet printer at the highest quality, an A4 sized piece of paper, some scotch tape and scissors you can be the proud owner of a model of Big Ben. Big Ben is certainly a symbol of London, Britain and maybe democracy as well. And it’s really easy to make!!

Download MeOR print the following out. 

The Big Ben Paper Pop Up

Share this Cut Out Big Ben On Your Site

After some playing around, patience and about 15 minutes of time, you’ll have built your very own Big Ben. It’s pretty much all you will need. The final product should look something like the following:

Free To Share This Big Ben Cut Out

Good luck!

Try a paper cut out of the Eiffel Tower.