{"id":3289,"date":"2010-04-29T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/04\/29\/a-tiny-bit-simplified-but-still-pretty-cool\/"},"modified":"2010-04-29T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T11:50:00","slug":"a-tiny-bit-simplified-but-still-pretty-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/04\/29\/a-tiny-bit-simplified-but-still-pretty-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"a tiny bit simplified, but still pretty cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/91391\/A-magnet-wont-work-on-plastic-bananas-or-girls\">A magnet won&#8217;t work on plastic, bananas or girls.<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2001, <a href=\"http:\/\/onf-nfb.gc.ca\/eng\/portraits\/marc_bertrand\/\">Marc Bertrand<\/a> was tasked by the National Film Board of Canada with creating 26 one-minute films about science. The only constraints were that he had to use both archival footage and animation. The result was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onf-nfb.gc.ca\/eng\/collection\/film\/?id=50966\">Science Please!<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And because the NFB is awesome, you can watch all 26 of them online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/science_please_1\/\">Part 1<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/science_please_part_2\/\">Part 2<\/a> | Or, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/playlists\/des-films-danimation-pour-vos-enfants\/viewing\/minute_de_science_svp_volume_1\/\">in<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/une_minute_de_science_svp_volume_2\/\">French<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The films are fast and frenetic, utilizing a wide range of animation styles as Bertrand drew from every corner of the NFB&#8217;s talented stable of animators. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nfb.ca\/2010\/03\/26\/26-films-on-science-for-children\/\">recent interview<\/a> (translated from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogue.onf.ca\/2010\/03\/11\/une-minute-avec-marc-bertrand\/\">the French<\/a>) Bertrand looked back fondly on his time working on &#8220;Science Please!&#8221; and announced that, after a nearly ten year delay, he is working on another series of science films for kids.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>link via <a href=\"http:\/\/lafinjack.livejournal.com\">Scott<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A magnet won&#8217;t work on plastic, bananas or girls.: In 2001, Marc Bertrand was tasked by the National Film Board of Canada with creating 26 one-minute films about science. The only constraints were that he had to use both archival footage and animation. The result was Science Please! And because the NFB is awesome, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2010\/04\/29\/a-tiny-bit-simplified-but-still-pretty-cool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;a tiny bit simplified, but still pretty cool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230,196],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animation","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}