This is the neatest video that I've seen all day! Guillaume Blanchet's innovative short film A Girl Named Elastika takes place on a cork board. With rubber bands, push pins, and good sound effects, Blanchet creates a wild adventure for the elastic girl. I'm especially impressed with how he created the impression of fire at 1:35. This film has earned Blanchet many film festival awards--and rightfully so!
Be sure to watch the outtakes at the end of the film. They're a hoot.
-via Colossal
It's your lucky day: you've just found a $20 bill. What would you spend it on? Would you get yourself a hot lunch? Maybe a video game?
Eight-year-old Myles Eckert was so excited when he found a $20 bill in the parking lot of his neighborhood Cracker Barrel restaurant. "I kind of wanted to get a video game," the young boy told CBS news, "but I decided not to."
Myles changed his mind when he saw Lt. Col. Frank Dailey in uniform, having an early lunch at the same restaurant. The soldier reminded Myles of his late father.
"Because he was a soldier, and soldiers remind me of my dad," Myles explained why he wrapped the $20 he found with a green note that said:
Dear Soldier -- my dad was a soldier. He's in heaven now. I found this 20 dollars in the parking lot when we got here. We like to pay it forward in my family. It's your lucky day! Thank you for your service. Myles Eckert, a gold star kid.
After lunch, Myles asked his mom to make one more stop. "He wanted to see his dad," the boy's mom Tiffany said, "And he wanted to go by himself that day."
Steve Hartman of CBS Evening News has the story:
