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• Eyeball matrioshke
• Cardboard: animation by Sjors Vervoort
• Crocheted Wunderkammer
• Anne Frank on film

Eyeball matrioshke Posted: 17 Oct 2009 11:01 PM PDT Jason Brammer's hand-painted eyeball matrioshka, "The Watchers," is a fine addition to the genre of crazy-awesome stuff you can do with blank nested dolls. "The Watchers" (via Craft) Previously: Matrioshke phones -- Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing Matryomin: a matrioshke with a theremin inside - Boing Boing Nesting rock star dolls - Boing Boing

Cardboard: animation by Sjors Vervoort Posted: 17 Oct 2009 09:11 PM PDT Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort created this fantastic stop-motion animation as a graduation project. Steven Aert did the sound design. (Thanks, Vann Hall!)

Crocheted Wunderkammer Posted: 17 Oct 2009 09:15 PM PDT Jessica Polka is a crocheter of curiosities who was inspired by the fantastic tome, Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Natural Curiosities. You can see Polka's work on her Wunderkammer blog or buy some specimens in her Etsy shop. She's also published a book of Wunderkammer crochet patterns, including "instructions to make your own crocheted squid, octopus, red coral and white blooming coral." The book is $12 from, where else, the Curiosity Shoppe. Wunderkammer Crochet Patterns Previously: Wunderkammer crafter interview - Boing Boing Crochet Coral Reef

Anne Frank on film Posted: 17 Oct 2009 06:05 PM PDT Above is the only film footage of Anne Frank, the inspirational 13-year-old diarist who hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic before finally dying in a concentration camp. The brief clip shows Frank, then 12, looking out of her window during her neighbor's wedding on July 22, 1941, one year before her family went into hiding. The film was made available on a YouTube channel just launched by the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam. From CNN: Other videos show the chestnut tree that Anne saw every day from her window and the church bells that rang while she was in hiding. She mentions both of these in her diary. Otto Frank can be heard on the site, talking about his daughter's diaries in a video excerpt made in the late 1960s before his death. He said she talked about and criticized many things, but he learned her real feelings only by reading her diary. "I was very much surprised about deep thoughts Anne had, a seriousness, especially her self-criticism. It was quite a different Anne I had known as my daughter. She never really showed this kind of inner feeling," Otto Frank said. "Anne Frank has channel on YouTube" (CNN) Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam

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