A small story from the section "What is not so everything is":

Felix is ​​a Zirndorf Playmobil figures, derived from the Frankish Playmobil headquarters Zirndorf and is by birth an incessant, cheerful type.

For sworn fans of Playmobil figures ("Klickys") the little man Zirndorf is already large cult - as the main character in a collaborative writing fun project to Klickywelt.de that one of the main Internet forums for Playmobil fans in Germany.

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The idea behind the writing project goes like this: Since June 2011, Felix Zirndorf is forwarded by mail or in person from Playmobil Playmobil fan to fan and its respective host then writes a personal picture story about their shared experiences. Mr. Zirndorf is therefore almost as baton traveling through Germany, from author to author, much like the travel bug in geocaching.

On each travel station there for Mr. Zirndorf to experience new things: time puts it, the current host only once in the shower, sometimes it goes on a wild kid's party, sometimes on a sightseeing tour to the Frauenkirche in Dresden or Dechenhöhle the Sauerland. The highlights are of course photographed and diligently annotated in short texts. Finally, each new travelogue ends up in Klickywelt.de forum.

Currently Mr. Zirndorf has visited 14 German cities and thereby brought nearly 1500 miles behind it. Soon it is likely for him in the United States. To be continued.

Perhaps the idea can indeed for collaborative writing projects in the German lessons adapt - it must also not always a Playmobil-Felix as his baton.

PS: Playmobil chief Horst Brandstätter the way, is not as creative as the fans of his toys. After the success secret of Hans Beck invented by his employee figures interviewed, he once admitted: "(...) know it, I am since my 19 Years here. My job is rather the technique that calculation, rationalization. And I must say, therefore, that I needed a while, until I realized how Playmobil works. (...) But the Lord Beck, who knew what happened to the children in mind. " With what is happening in the minds of adults, but also Mr. Beck has probably not expected.

- Update (29/11/11) -

For all friends of stop motions, but not for the fainthearted:

And then this incredibly complex audio slideshow. The prologue to "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy by Peter Jackson, imitated by countless hand-styled and so not buying Playmobil figures:

Do you know the Schleck croissant? Sometimes it is interesting sites on which a striking content suddenly reappears. Even more exciting is it to trace where the content originally came from. So if you want to know how the Schleck squirrel came to RTL.de, then click on: more

Frederic Brodbeck's Cinemetrics called internally-generated visualization technique with which he creates animated movies from fingerprints.

The individual frames of a movie, will be reviewed as slices in a pie chart and the pie chart shows again then typical properties of the film, for example, its color spectrum, or the action Sprechwortlastigkeit dynamics.

Why is this good? Brodbeck says:

This is interesting Especially When putting two or more movies side by side and to be viable to immediately see the similarities and / or differences:

vs. original. remake
movies of the same genre / series
different epochs of film-making
all movies by one director

Not only cinema enthusiasts and people doing film studies might benefit, but that is for regular people to alternative way of looking at movies Could Provide an interesting new way of choosing movies based on formal criteria. For instance: "I do not want to see the dark one with lots of motion, did colorful one with the great amount of spoken words looks much more interesting to me."

The video shows what it looks like and how it works:

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Frederic Brodbeck: Cinemetrics

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Paper is a fascinating material. The editors of the graphic design magazine Novum it creates impressive feats for their own title page.

For the November issue, for example, the graphic design specialists have come up with a cover, can be formed from the geometric figures and the so-invited to play and comprehension:

Even if it sometimes is forgotten, solid craftsmanship is essential for every work. (...) That sound pressure and can lead to refinement craft great results, shows our deformable cover. Provided in 48,000 print passes and with 140 punch cuts per issue, six different colored covers created without re-exposure plate.

How it originated, the video shows:

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Graphic magazine Novum: Sample collection refined front pages

Outside it is now already very dark early again.

Time for a bit of sun on the monitor.

You want to know how something is being filmed?
Here, the secret is revealed:

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