Last Friday, April 1st, Google announced a whole new way of enjoying ebooks while keeping many of the characteristics of physical books intact. Brilliant!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-_U92YX7eA
Fun Fridays
A Sensational New Market for Books is Found
In a startling revelation this week, the Foundation for Applied Knowledge and Enterprise (FAKE) in Danville, Delaware released the findings of their ten-year research study to identify unreached markets for printed books. Since the human market has been fully reached with books, the methodology used by FAKE was to determine which species of life on earth was advanced enough to warrant creating …
Fun Fridays – March 11, 2016
This is the perfect illustration on the importance of “voice” in a book. The first version is the way it should be. The second version is how so many books sound to an editor’s ear. Beyond that, the video is simply a brilliant expression of what creativity sounds like! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLhJIFC8xkY HT: Trissina Kear
Fun Fridays – March 4, 2016
Does this hilarious song describe your day? Sing this tune the next time it happens to you…and it will!
Fun Fridays – February 26, 2016
A lack of gravity doesn’t stop this group from making an amazing video. The combination of music, choreography, creativity, and sheer genius is breathtaking. Enjoy!
Fun Fridays – February 19, 2016
British sketch comedy at its finest. Imagine how much fun they had writing the sketch and then performing it! HT: Kim Moore
Fun Fridays – Feb. 12, 2016
This is one of my favorites. The barbershop quartet “Main Street” imagines what their music will sound like twenty years from now. They are really good. You owe it to yourself to spent 8 1/2 minutes listening to the fun. Hope this brings a smile to your day.
Fun Fridays – February 5, 2016
A tender animated short film (4 minutes). Watch it all the way through. You’ll be glad you did. This short film, by film student Jacob Frey, just finished a circuit of 180 film festivals where it won 50 different awards. Now that you’ve watched the film you can see the short web-comic it was based on. (click here) Like it on Facebook! (Facebook Page: The Present)
Fun Fridays – January 29, 2015
Imagine Mozart and Adele co-writing a song together. You might end up with something like this latest piece from The Piano Guys. A combination of Adele’s “Hello” and Mozart’s “Lacrimosa” from his Requiem in D Minor (if you want to hear Mozart’s original piece it is posted below). Below is Mozart’s “Lacrimosa” complete with translation …
Fun Fridays – Jan. 15, 2016
These famous brothers are so entertaining to watch. Especially when playing their instruments. I encourage those of you with kids to show a couple of these classic films…make it a family night. We don’t want them to be lost to the next generation.