M.A.D
M.A.D., an acronym for Music, Art and Dance is essentially an off-the-wall, interactive journey filled with fun tabletop “makes”, dynamic performances, a splash of slapsticks and BIG art stunts in the studio and in the town near you. Each week, our three hosts discover a theme through art along with music and dance, with the occasional help of M.A.D. kids. Using familiar items, they explore and create innovative and engaging objects—some can be done at home and some you couldn’t try in a million years!
Recent features on M.A.D. include:
Episode 40 - Visual Tricks
Seeing is believing! But Rob adds a twist to this fact, with a whole bunch of Visual tricks that leaves the viewer mind boggled! Coins disappear into thin air in the illusion piggy bank, and time freezes with the frozen moments make. Play hide and seek with Chinu… now you see them... Now you don’t! Then cast a spell with watchful eyes that never spare you no matter where you go. And in the Big Picture Rob creates an image which you can never guess till you see its reflection!! It’s a bonanza of surprises only on M.A.D.
Episode 39 - Junk
It’s recycle and reuse time so pull out all your junk and convert it to art.
Make funky colorful bracelets and belts out of food wrappers and then do the twist with twisty creatures M.A.D.e out of plastic bags.
Get cool and classy with your own junk vintage car!
Don’t miss the garage dance with Chinu and Sid and in the Big Picture there is a giant surprise to grab your imagination. Its trash to treasure M.A.D.ness on M.A.D.
Episode 38 - Pebble and Sand
Shake rattle and roll all the way into the Stone Age…with this fun filled episode of M.A.D...
Put life into pebbles and make them sing a tribal tune. Then it gets tricky with trick pebble art, which will come in handy to bluff your friends. Ride into the world of the Flintstones on your own Flintstones car and in the Big Picture be amazed as Rob makes magic with sand.
Episode 37 - MELA
The new season begins with ‘Mela’ M.A.D.ness and a big splash of colours. The fun continues with a Jumping Jiggy that you can make with ice cream sticks, a Tak Tak gaadi for your entertainment and puppets that dance to your tune and story telling tips from Rob. For the grand finale it’s a grand picture M.A.D.e of windmills. All this and much more only on M.A.D.
Episode 36 - Sculpture
In the Sculpture episode of M.A.D Rob uses some very unconventional methods and materials to make sculptures. A quick and easy way to makes sculptures by scrunching a plastic bag filled with plaster of Paris. The next time you’ll think twice before chucking that plastic bag!! Your stockings got the ladder? Rob shows you the fastest way to make good useof old stockings. Put them onto wire frames and you have an original art piece.
Wrap away newspaper and tape to make those amazing action figures. Brush on a metallic finish or paint them bright… wrapping paper around sticks can be fun too!! And what’s more they look like realistic metal mouldings. A tug here and a push there, and your inexpensive soap bars can be sculpted into the most amazing shapes. Rob’s golden touch at its very best!! Sanika on the Tanpura, Rohit on the Flute and Yeti on the Table!! That’s the jam up in our music section. What does Rob have in common with the Presidentsof the United States?Well they both have a sculpted mountain to their names!! Rob does a Mount Robmore and creates a thermocol sculpture of himself in different moods.
Episode 34 – Circus
All of us have grown up seeing the circus and Rob tells you just how you can recreate one sitting at home. He shows a very easy technique to create a dancing girl who actually dances on the tip of your finger. Then he makes a trapeze artist who shows his stunts when the attached is tensed and rotated. The trio who perform next include a juggler, a man riding a unicycle and a performer on stilts… right out of the circus. Then Rob has an invited guest, Pradipto who demonstrates the paper scouring technique to create a Ring master training a Lion in a Circus arena. The show ends with a big Big picture… as big as real life where Rob and his friends an Elephant doing a circus stunt.
Episode 32 - Ancient Civilization
Rob makes the MAD fans go back in time in this episode, as he re-creates the Art of various ancient civilizations. The episode kicks off with rob teaching the mad fans how to make the ancient Chinese bamboo reed painting. Then Rob made an extraordinary ancient Egyptian mask using ordinary material available. For our music segment we had a young maestro play violin for us and for the hard make Rob made a sundial just the way it was made in the olden times, using the principles of magnetism, some geometry and of course a lot of Art. For the Big Picture Rob surprised everybody yet again by making a giant Sphinx using hay and card board boxes.
Episode 31 - Gluey Art
This episode kicked off with MAD fans making some cool pieces with glue and glitter. For the medium make Rob made a painting out of glue color and then used combs to make patterns and textures on it. And for the music segment we had a mime artist who did an act with a ball that refuses to part from him and sticks like glue. Then for the music segment rob performed with Sid. For the hard segment Rob made a huge spider web out of glue and then created small spiders to go with it. And to round off the sticky gluey art episode Rob made a colorful gecko by sticking away many post-it notes.
Episode 30 – Printing
The printing episode had Rob teaching some MAD fans, how to do Styrofoam printing with Styrofoam cups and plates found around the house. This was followed by the medium make where Rob used the roller printing technique and showed us that this could be also used for printing T-shirts. For the music segment we had a talented 8 year old boy from Kolhapur, who played the tabla. Then Rob tells us how to make collagraph print using thread, pins and other whacky stuff. In the Big picture Rob made a huge car using rickshaw images and screen printing them on a huge piece of cloth.
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