From The Onion

"When I performed on television I shook my pelvis"

The Wax Museum is "a 4th grade project where students study a historical person and prepare a speech recounting their subject’s life. The students then dress up as their historical figure and share their speeches. This is Elvis!!!"

Museum Educators -- check out more on the Teacher Tube site while you are there. Great insight on what teachers do and want in their museum visit.

Elvis's life in 4 minutes, my teacher never did cool stuff like that, we only got to cut out dinosaurs out of paper.

Watch:

TeacherTube - Wax Museum - Elvis Presley:

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art

An award winning video by Philip Scott Johnson

Nominated as Most Creative Video
2007 YouTube Awards

May inspire me to go visit an art museum.

Amazing Find Friday

From Wired comes a story and video of an amazing feat of fake photography. The video features Corey Keller, the curator of a new exhibit,

The remarkable photos of the craters on the moon were made of..... plaster.

Little Monsters

I am always looking at unusual things the web can do. The above photo shows a 3-d monster appearing on my computer via a flash based web app. If you have a web cam and a printer, you might want to try it. My mind is spinning with applications for a museum exhibit, I haven't seen it used in green screen applications yet.

To try for yourself, visit here.

Thank you to Bb Offworld

The Sugar Frosted Cereal Museum Pool

I got a little nostalgic browsing this amazing collection of sugar coated goodness on Flickr.



Flickr: The Sugar Frosted Cereal Museum Pool

Truth is, my mother never let us eat these.

Nano Old Masters in protien

(Nanowerk News) Canadian researchers have created a new protein patterning technique that's enabled them to reproduce complex cellular environments and a miniature version of a masterpiece painting.

I wouldn't want to try and put an accession number on that one.