Cancel or allow?

Thanks to Joey deVilla for posting the inspiration for this doodle over at Global Nerdy! (The YouTube video is embedded below.)

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Unreleased Get a Mac Ad: "Cancel or Allow?"

Time to go!

Did you ever wonder why you were in such a rush to toilet train your toddler?

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Balloons

When they're up, you're up...

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Inability to commit

Know any techies with commitment issues?

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Toddler crafting - you colour my world

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

Instructions for creating this Valentine's plate can be found at Craft Day.

Need to nap?

Why is it that the people who are most willing to nap, are least able to take them?

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If you're happy and you know it, read a book!

Inspired by our local library "story time."

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A mother's energy

This one's for all the exhausted mothers out there!

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The 50 Greatest Cartoons

The 50 Greatest Cartoons as voted on by the animation industry in 1994. (As seen at CityRag.) It's going to take me quite some time to catch-up on all the ones I haven't seen before!

1. What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
2. Duck Amuck (1953)
3. The Band Concert (1935)
4. Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
5. One Froggy Evening (1956)
6. Gertie the Dinosaur (1914)
7. Red Hot Riding Hood (1943)
8. Porky in Wackyland (1938)
9. Gerald McBoing-Boing (1951)
10. King Size Canary (1947)
11. Three Little Pigs (1933)
12. Rabbit of Seville (1950)
13. Steamboat Willie (1928)
14. The Old Mill (1937)
15. Bad Luck Blackie (1949)
16. The Great Piggy Bank Robbery (1946)
17. Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor (1936)
18. The Skeleton Dance (1929)
19. Snow White (1933)
20. Minnie the Moocher (1932)
21. Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs (1943)
22. Der Fuehrer's Face (1943)
23. Little Rural Riding Hood (1949)
24. The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
25. The Big Snit (1985)
26. Brave Little Tailor (1938)
27. Clock Cleaners (1937)
28. Northwest Hounded Police (1946)
29. Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom (1953)
30. Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
31. The Scarlet Pumpernickel (1950)
32. The Cat Came Back (1988)
33. Superman (1941)
34. You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
35. Ali Baba Bunny (1957)
36. Feed the Kitty (1952)
37. Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
38. Bambi Meets Godzilla (1969)
39. Little Red Riding Rabbit (1941)
40. Peace on Earth (1939)
41. Rooty Toot Toot (1952)
42. The Cat Concerto (1947)
43. The Barber of Seville (1944)
44. The Man Who Planted Trees (1987)
45. Book Revue (1946)
46. Quasi at the Quackadero (1975)
47. Corny Concerto (1943)
48. The Unicorn in the Garden (1953)
49. The Dover Boys (1942)
50. Felix in Hollywood (1923)

For more info, see the Wikipedia entry.

Love Dove

This was created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

Instructions for creating this Love Dove can be found at Craft Day.

Baby Bam-Bam

To make a theme out of things, I went and found this image of Bam-bam from here

Here's my first go-round.

As with the first Pebbles attempt I noticed:

• I make the cheeks larger than they are in the original
• I make the features (eyes, nose etc) larger than in the original

So. Overlay with Photoshop and back to fix the image.

Much better. See for yourself!

Dance, drawings, dance!

This very cool toy created by motion designer Masayuki Kido allows you to draw a two-dimensional character and then it "animates" it for you! First seen at Drawn.ca. Apparently, I didn't understand that you had to draw within the person shaped frame... which is why the character has a square head and only stumps for hands!

I'm having problems embedding the video in IE (Firefox worked like a charm), so here's a direct link to mine.

Key Frame Animation is Canadian

Did you know that? Neither did I.

To find out more about Canadian Inventions, check out the Wikipedia entry based on the CBC TV special called "The Greatest Canadian Invention. "

Here is the list of inventions, in the order in which they were ranked on the show:

1. Light Bulb
2. Insulin
3. Telephone
4. Five-pin bowling
5. Wonderbra
6. Pacemaker
7. Robertson screw
8. Zipper
9. Electric Wheelchair
10. Poutine
11. Cobalt-60 “Bomb” Cancer Treatment
12. Java programming language
13. Bloody Caesar
14. Canadarm
15. Standard Time
16. Electron Microscope
17. Ski-Doo
18. BlackBerry
19. Radio Voice Transmission
20. Birch-Bark Canoe
21. Basketball
22. Retractable Beer Carton Handle
23. UV Degradable Plastics
24. Instant Replay
25. Goalie mask
26. Marquis Wheat
27. Pablum
28. Lacrosse
29. Electric Oven
30. Fog horn
31. Walkie-Talkie
32. Alkaline battery
33. Paint roller
34. Electronic Music Synthesizer
35. Weevac 6
36. Green Garbage Bag
37. Snowblower
38. Self-Propelled Combine Harvester
39. Instant Mashed Potatoes
40. Marine Screw Propeller
41. Explosives Vapour Detector
42. Plexiglas
43. Key Frame Animation
44. CPR-Mannequin: “Actar 911”
45. G-Suit
46. Ardox Spiral Nail
47. Automatic Lubricating Cup
48. Crash-Position Indicator
49. Caulking gun
50. Separable Baggage Check

That's one impressive list!

Baby Pebbles

Since copying seems to be something I'm half decent at, I thought I'd try and copy a cartoon baby.

Using this as a guide:
(originally seen here), I give you this:



I'm embarassed to admit, it was a long journey. Here are the stepping stones I took.



At least the final product is pretty close to the original!

Toddler crafting - Santa and gingerbread

These were created at our local Ontario Early Years Centre.

Instructions for Santa and gingerbread man can be found at CraftDay.