Disclaimer: This video is by no means “SuperForesty”, but it was the incredible SuperForester Spoon that introduced it to me, so I guess that kind of counts, right? Plus, it is Halloween so I’ll use that as a viable excuse to post this classic gem of a video.

Massive love to all.

Brazilian duo Cecilia Siqueira and Fernando Lima of Duo Siqueira Lima performs Tico Tico no Fuba with one guitar. This video made me smile! The way that their hands move together in perfect unison, its something to behold.

love

-jackie

(via Neatorama)

Heyo, SuperForest!

If you are a fan of “Powers of Ten” or if you dig flying through ribosomes, skin cells, and coffee beans, you’ll loooove this.

The University of Utah came up with this impressive interactive cell size and scale learning device. By clicking and dragging on a little scroll bar, you can slide through the small and into the microscopic! It’s a very clever tool and you can’t deny the fact that it’s kinda fun.

And if that doesn’t please your inner nerd, check out this table.

Have a wonderful Friday.

(found via popsci, and the periodic table table was found via the lovely SuperForester Afshawn!)

Song of the Witches – Shakespeare (Macbeth)

Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork and bling-worms sting,
Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

Happy Hallow’s Eve!

The Return of the Amazing Jackson! from The 4Fives on Vimeo.

It has been far too long since last we all hung with the 4Fives. SuperForesters Jackson and Jackie cruise out to P.S. 58 to hang with Brooklyn’s finest, and what a reunion it was!

Walking in to a room of cheering happy children, who are as thrilled to see you as you are to see them is an experience everyone should be lucky enough to have.

Love to All,

Jackson

Check out the 4Fives blog!
And peep the new logo they designed themselves!

Brilliant children! The best of the best.

On the evening of August 25th my life changed significantly: I boarded a plane from O’Hare Airport to Europe. One-way. Destination: Prague, with a nearly 9 hour layover in Dublin. As you may imagine, I equal parts eager and nervous. As so many of us do, I channeled that energy into something creative. During the flight I wrote this poem:

As the child cries, overseas

We left Chicago’s nameless suburbs at twilight
Fit to chase the dawn

The clouds’ palette dips from ripe orange
and pregnant purple
We glide over sea and air
Suspended in darkness
A journey into and through the night

Finally the morning comes
We race above plains of cotton candy
Yellow, then bleached
White by the morning sun

We descend into day
And I into my new life

I recalled a conversation I had with my tai chi teacher in Kauai, Shanewo, one of the wisest dudes to ever walk on this planet. He told me that I’d make a friend in the airport. I did one better: I made a friend on the plane! Anita. What a gal. I hooked her up with some Rainer Maria Rilke, she gave me a tour of Ireland within the confines of my day-long layover. Amazing.

My curator of the Emerald Isle, Anita.

Anita took me to her superlatively sweet village, Whitglow. Mum picked us up at the airport. Once we departed from cramped Dublin International, the island opened up and I knew I needed to be there. In Whitglow County is the achingly beautiful Glendalough, the Glen of Two Lakes. I always had the feeling that glens are awesome. That intuition was confirmed.

Welcome to Ireland! What color comes to mind?

A glen! A lake! Terrific!

A poignantly beautiful Celtic graveyard.

I’m only 12.5% Irish, but that bit sprung up to the front in my time on the isle. They call hiking “hill-walking,” which is as pragmatic as it is awesome. Oh, Ireland, I must return to you.

I loooove  a good flow chart, but this one is on an entirely different level. This one took my breath away:

You are so singing along, aren’t you? (me too.)

Love always,

Carla

(via this, via that)

SFJ is in NYC. Keeping warm and friendly thanks to SuperForester Patricia’s excellent hatgift! Plus a surprise appearance by My Man Short Legs.

Love to you all! Anyone need anything form NYC? I’ll be back in Cali on Saturday AM.

-Jackson

Check it out, posted by twitter user @danlane:

So cool. No modification, just purely repurposed recording tape cases, that NO ONE uses anymore. Awesome!

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Jay Silver and Mitchel Resnick, in the Lifelong Kindergarten group of those clever folk at MIT’s Media Lab are the creators of the Drawdio (Draw+Audio): a pencil that draws music! With an ordinary pencil, and a cheap electrical circuit thumb-tacked on, you can draw musical instruments on normal paper and then play them with your finger. Behold:

Drawdio “brings to life the everyday interconnections between people and environment, encouraging you to use your sense of touch, and letting you hear otherwise invisible electrical connections” – and you can even rig it to pretty much anything from a tree to a jacket to your own darling boy !

(I can’t believe I nearly forgot to mention that the mission of the jacket is to encourage “appropriate touching” where “skin-to-skin contact is the magic ‘on switch’”).

So cool.

And what’s more, they provide you with all the info you need to make your own!
Love
P