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From the Washington Post: watch as six Washington Ballet dancers demonstrate their most challenging moves.

Flying Robot Rockstars

KMel Robotics presents a team of flying robots that have taken up new instruments to play some fresh songs. The hexrotors create music in ways never seen before, like playing a custom single string guitar hooked up to an electric guitar amp. Drums are hit using a deconstructed piano action. And there are bells. Lots of bells. Many thanks to Lockheed Martin and Intel Corporation for their support. See this show and more live at the USA Science & Engineering Festival on April 26 & 27 in Washington, D.C. http://www.usasciencefestival.org/ Lockheed Martin in the founding and presenting sponsor of the festival. KMel Robotics (www.kmelrobotics.com) Video Produced and Directed by Kurtis Sensenig (www.kurtisfilms.com) Music Arrangement and Sound Design by Dan Paul (www.danpaulmusic.com)

Who needs preservatives and sugar in their ketchup? Make your own delicious non-Newtonian fluid with some Roma tomatoes, salt, olive oil, water, and some apple cider vinegar after you watch Zagat’s How To: Make Ketchup.

In the archives: more recipe videos. How about some homemade pickles?

Play House

Sound installation by Alex Allmont uses old LEGO to create a machine to generate electronic music - video embedded below:

Play house is an automata that mechanically computes and performs hooky and hypnotic acid house. Like a generative musical loom, a single drive turns a sequence of LEGO gears, levers and latches that mutate riffs and rhythm patterns. These are played out on analogue drums and synthesisers from the halcyon days of 1980’s dance music while the machine gradually shifts the timbre and space of the sound. In the piece the process of creation is laid bare so one can indulge in picking apart the interactions driving the score, seeing sound as it changes in sculpture, exploring our expectations in music, or simply rocking out to some fruity acid.

Amelymeloptical Illusion, a seemingly simple yet enthralling rings performance from French juggler Lindzee Poi.

Next, watch French “magic” champ Yann Frisch and Sylvain’s bulles de savon géantes.

Watch as pen spinners Ian Jenson and 吳宗諺 (PPM) perform some epic pen spinning, complete with a few great slow motion moments that really showcase what’s going on. This short from Taiwan’s Kuma Films makes us want to get some weighted spinning pens, but anyone can start practicing with an everyday pencil, too: How to Spin a Pencil Around Your Thumb.