How many new ways of doing things are there?

Is it really true that Mozart wrote all the world's music?

It's a credit to our resourcefulness that we can we can find new ways of doing things that have been done before, but some new things are far more amazing than others. I have two examples that I can't help but shout about and having bored all of my family and friends by showing them once and then showing them again after forgetting that I had shown them earlier, I resort to showing you. I have to. You have to know.

Etch-a-sketch. What could be new about that? Well, George Vlosich III has created a whole new world of Pop Art and he has put in hours of patient effort to do so.

He had the time and the patience to do more than play with his Etch-A-Sketch and the rewards for his efforts are outstanding. Not, perhpas, because the sketches created are superb images (an Etch-A-Sketch is limited to straight lines in black on grey) but because we all know the Etch-A-Sketch and we all immediately understand what must have gone into producing the images on these screens.

It also makes what he produces amazingly popular and it looks like he is doing a roaring trade in sketches for celebrities, sports teams and fans and ex-presidents. I'm sure they all, like us, remember being convinced that we'll create a decent picture on the Etch-A-Sketch in front of us, but ended up with another picture of a very square house with a front door and four windows that were attached to the walls with an unnecessary line.


And then we get on to a really time consuming creation, painting with light!



Yes, these guys really sat in the dark with torches and a camera and drew each frame again and again and again, not knowing what the last frame looked like because it was drawn in the air.

But with patience and practice they have put together leaping dolphins, walking deer, flying pigs and growing flowers.

So, some time ago, Mozart invented drawing (or am I getting confused) and over time he drew every shape of line that could be drawn. But even though we've played every chord and drawn line, there are people always coming up with new ways of putting it together. What are they gooing to come up with next time.

Snape, Snape, Severus Snape. DUMBLEDORE!

Harry Potter mania has produced many things but none as fine as 'Potter Puppet Pals in "The Mysterious Ticking Noise'. You can't stop yourself from watching it more than once and you can't stop yourself from muttering the words in your head while you sit on a packed underground, secretely shouting DUMBLEDORE to yourself in high pitched voice in your own head.




Created be Neil Cicierega and Emmy Cicierega, it makes you wonder, one, how they came up with the idea, two, when they decided to film it and, three, at what point did they decide to polish it and film it again as a near perfect short presentation!


They have also dragged in their friends Alora Lanzillota and Julie Becker and curiously none of the voices sound like they are coming from teenagers. It's not true that the internet is populated by school age wannabe's that flood the internet with mediocre repetition of what has been seen before, there are some adults out there putting in the effort to keep the standards up.