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Friday, October 9, 2009

320. Name the game?

This game was created by Leslie Scott while using children's wooden building blocks which her family purchased from a sawmill in Ghana.Though a British national, Scott was born in East Africa where she was raised speaking English and Swahili, before moving to live in Ghana. This explains the Swahili name of the game meaning to 'to build'.

Identify the game.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

319. Unwanted advice?

This is the Yiddish term for a meddler who offers unwanted advice to others

Now mostly encountered to specify a hanger-on/spectator in a game of bridge or chess, offering (often unwanted) advice or commentary.

Which term?

Monday, October 5, 2009

318. Bringing back to life?

This cinematic effect is most commonly used by makers of documentaries on subjects where principally still material (photographs, paintings etc) is available. To bring the still material to life, for example, the camera zooms in on subjects of interest and then pans from one subject to another, finally coming to rest on the element which is the subject of the voice-over narration.

This effect is also present in many professional and home software applications (the iPhoto, iMovie etc from Apple) and is named after the guy who popularized it in some epoch making documentaries.

What is this effect called?