Let’s Build: Papercraft with PhysicsGirl, Part 2

10 thoughts on “Let’s Build: Papercraft with PhysicsGirl, Part 2”

1. Stellan is easily the most Swedish name… it is only used in Sweden, and no one knows its origins.

   As a Norwegian, most of the names people think of as ‘typical Norwegian’, like Tor/Thor, are in fact from Old-Norse and thus pretty equally distributed throughout Scandinavia and Iceland.

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2. Astronaut names!

   Sally Ride

   Svetlana Savitskaya

   Mae Jemison

   And Tim Blais Bohemian Gravity https://youtu.be/2rjbtsX7twc

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3. Re: Harry Potter popularity in the UK – It’s HUGE over here. There’s also a Warner Bros. Harry Potter studio over here in London, complete with a replica of Diagon Alley and a 1:24 scale model of Hogwarts which they actually used for filming the wide pan shots of the castle. The detail is absolutely mind-boggling. It apparently took the equivalent of 74 years of work to build.

   I visited a couple of years ago and was blown away by the whole experience. They have a really nice section with a lot of the animatronic models used in filming, some rigged up as working demonstrations.

   One of the sections that really astonished me though was a corridor lined with technical drawings of props more meticulous than any drawings I have ever seen. They had drawings for everything. Even things like the gargoyles that adorn the shopfronts in Diagon Alley, you’d think they’d just go to the props departments and say “Hey, we want this gargoyle, built to this scale, etc”, but no… even those had insanely detailed drawings with hundreds and hundreds of dimensions on them. I figure that’s because of the blend of practical and CG effects which need to be seamlessly integrated?

   I wholeheartedly recommend a visit if you ever get the opportunity.

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4. Uh……. what was that little whispy explosion effect at about 23:30?

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5. Uh……. what was that little whispy explosion effect at about 23:30?

   Looked almost like someone’s screensaver.

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6. for some examples of extreme paper art check out http://www.petercallesen.com/

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7. I’m guessing something briefly failed about the video capture while the audio was undamaged, so that was a little exploding-frames graphic to fill the gap.

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8. im swedish and i have only ever heard of Stellan Skarsgård

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9. Not saying it is common, just saying it is uniquely Swedish. No one uses it elsewhere, and there are no closely related names AFAIK. 🙂

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10. oh, ok 😀

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