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Extra, Extra: Ornithopters, Kaleidoscopes, and Rick Rolls
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
- Todd Reichert, a student at U of T’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, created and flew, for 19.3 seconds, “the first ever human-powered flapping-wing aircraft”—or at least the first ever human-powered flapping-wing aircraft that could be flown for 19.3 seconds. The grace of the thing (above) is incredible.
- A new Feist documentary, Look at What the Light Did Now is on its way; it’s a “a backstage pass into Feist’s creative process” and “the story of how The Reminder got made” and “a kaleidoscopic look at the intersection of art and music” and it looks like it’ll be good.
- Improv in Toronto have announced that they’ll be doing a “Real life Rick Roll,” in Brampton, which someone should really interrupt with another Rick Roll.
- And Eye says bye to one of their own: receptionist Anne Mackinlay, “an office den mother who took no shit.” Mackinlay died on Monday, of lung cancer.
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