Curly-Wurly stretching
A serious investigation into the properties of materials. It is, it is, it is!
Jonathan Sanderson
Duration: 6:37
Views: 426
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Toffee and SugarThe British Interactive Group is a professional organisation for people working in museums, science centres, and associated businesses. Every year, it holds a conference with lecture and workshop sessions on skills development, evaluation techniques, and so on.
Then in the coffee breaks, we do things like this.
James Piercy – who runs the Inspire hands-on centre in Norwich – came up with this nonsense idea. Now we could go on about how we were investigating material properties, exploring the effect of low temperatures on substrate ductility, and honing our measurement and data-collection techniques.
But really, we just fancied eating a load of Curly-Wurlys.
This is a very long film for SciCast, but it took me the best part of a day to hack it down to even this length, so... this is what you get. Sorry. I still think it's watchable, though – mostly because James is extremely good value. His little dance, for example, sums up the lunacy of the event.
Shooting this sort of thing is extremely difficult. You have to run around and point the camera where you think something might happen next, and then stay there for long enough that you can use the shot. Just waving the camera around and trying to chase the action will get you a tape full of nothing.
I think I was partially successful here, but having a second camera would have been extremely valuable. Mind you, then I'd just have had twice as much material to deal with when editing, so... maybe I did this right after all.
— Jonathan.
HUNGRY ME!!
LOUIS, 31 Mar 2010
A TOTAL WASTE OF CHOCLATE !!!!!!!!!!!!
yamin, 31 Mar 2010
A TOTAL WASTE OF CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
rameel, 31 Mar 2010
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Zohya, 31 Mar 2010
It's official! World record holder. Go Helen!
Elin, 26 Nov 2007
The question remains, . . . was it, in the early 80s, possible to stretch them further just because they were larger?
rpg, 10 Oct 2007
Mmmmmm now I'm hungry!
Kate Farrell, 09 Oct 2007