October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the zipper pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chi...
September 20, 2008 16:48:07
How many times have you heard the words, “I can’t draw!” or “Drawing is a talent you inherit!” With such words people often dismiss their own abilities and spend the rest of their lives muttering the phrase “If only I could draw it I could explain it much bet...
November 23, 2008 17:02:38
By Don Hinrichsen - A new teen magazine called "LOVE" is stirring up the youth in Mongolia, the least populated country in Asia. Like the rest of this vast continent, Mongolia is rapidly urbanizing. One third of the country’s 2.5 million people live in the c...
August 20, 2009 22:39:57
It's like being hypnotized - you wake up afterwards wondering where you are and what happened. It seems like a daydream into The Twilight Zone - another Power Point Presentation by a speaker who believes that bullit points and non-stop slides can somehow transmit the message into the listeners' ...
November 27, 2010 03:12:55
How To Draw Frosty The Snowman: Video
Watch Tim speed-paint Frosty the Snowman on the timtim Draw & Color Page set to the music of Carl Vista called Bluegrass Jingle Bells . Click here to see another very fun musical Christmas video with Tim's drawings & voice!
June 7, 2009 14:48:58
Alexander McCall Smith Interview: The No.1 Ladies Detective Writer
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling British author of over 60 books, is on his way back to Botswana to write his next book. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for timtim about his characters and book covers and his thoughts on artwork, talent, and teaching. Alexander ...
January 11, 2010 00:42:51
World's Most Sold Comic! Timtim Visits Mort Walker
Just after Thanksgiving 2009, timtim member Graham, his dad Robert, and I watched as Mort Walker focused his thoughts, took pencil and paper, and began to draw. It was a pleasure to the eye and amazing to see his power of concentration. A minute later he’d brought Beetle Bailey to life...
April 6, 2009 19:35:26
A few weeks ago 9-year-old Malaysian boy, Lim Ding Wen, wrote a finger-painting application called Doodle Kids for the Apple iPhone. The program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset's touch screen using just their fingers. Although done to please his two sisters aged 3 and 5, the p...
September 30, 2008 20:52:13
The amazing history of TP started back in China AD 1391 when the Bureau of Imperial Supplies began making 720,000 sheets of TP every year. Each seet measured 2ft by 3ft (61cm by 91 cm) and was just for the Emperors. Many years later in 1857 Joseph Gayetty's New York company was the first to pack...
July 5, 2009 16:32:41
What is the 6th number in this math sequence? 1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ____ ??? It is said that engineers take 3 minutes to solve this, architects 3 hours and doctors 6 hours, physical therapists 20 minutes, yoga instructors 5 minutes, retired folks, 14 minutes, pharmacists 4 minutes, fraud investigat...
November 17, 2008 20:54:57
The modern meaning of the word "spam" comes from the Spam Skit by Monty Python's Flying Circus . In the sketch, a restaurant serves all its food with lots of spam, and the waitress repeats the word several times in describing how much spam is in the items. When she does this, a gro...
October 18, 2009 18:02:54
Stare at the black cross in the middle of this drawing. Keep your eyes on the cross and you will slowly see the pink dots be washed away by the rotating green dot! Now, try to follow the green dot with your eye around the circle. As you do, the green dot will disappear and all you will see is th...
May 2, 2011 11:24:49
Join & Get Access To All Drawings
TIMTIM DRAWINGS ARE FREE FOR NON-COMMERCIAL USE . As a member you get access to all timtim drawings - for yourself, your classroom, or group without watermarks for non-commercial use. Please read all these instructions before you join!! . Membership allows download of all drawings in f...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Asperger's Syndrome - A User Manual
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is a diagnosis used to describe people within the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum. They are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For people like...
October 10, 2010 16:50:20
Once, as a lion lay sleeping in his den after a large meal, a hungry little mouse crept in and started nibbling on left-over crumbs. One of the crumbs was stuck in the lion's tail. Suddenly, the Mighty lion woke with an angry roar and grabbed the mouse up in his claws. "How dare you steal m...