Make-Your-Own Zebra

Reader's Digest had a great story in it's Laughterpedia for the letter

Z:

Mohammed Bargouthi didn't let a little thing like an Israeli embargo keep him from having a zebra in his Gaza zoo. Using ingenuity and guile, he made his own. His recipe: one donkey, some masking tape, and a little black hair dye. "The children don't know, and they are happy to see something new." Source: Ananova News Service

I'm a little sad that there's an embargo on bringing zebras to Gaza, but then again maybe this is a new way to keep wild animals in the wild. Just use animals that you have around, like donkeys or maybe here it would be dogs... and dress them up/paint them/dye them to look like all the other animals you'd want to see in a zoo!

Sounds like modern art to me!

"Kites"

After you have watched the clip below, watch this one for more of the story! It's also just a minute long and it pulls from the whole video. Not quite as good of quality as below, but you have to see it to see what happens!

“Kites”

2009 Student Academy Awards® – Animation Category – “Kites” | Video | The Academy

My great-aunt showed me this five-minute movie made by BYU animation students. It's a beautiful story of a boy who finds that his grandpa really isn't gone; or at least he has left him with the skills he needs to soar! This clip is only the first minute or so, but you should watch it! You'll like it.