Diego Fazio draws hyperrealistic portraits using only a pencil. {via @NoisyAstronomer} If you can find the beauty in damaged objects, you will love these photos of destroyed theaters. The accountant Cary Walkin devised an entire RPG inside an Excel a spreadsheet. {via Critical Dragon1177} Thomas Lamadieu found a canvas floating above the urban skyline. Comic book illustrator Dan Zettwoch drew anat... »
It’s the Friday Quickies!. We’ve got lots to cover. Let’s begin! Landfill Harmonic’s motto is “The world send us garbage. We send back music.” A film about “The Recycled Orchestra” is being crowd-funded at kickstarter. “Is this science journalism? Nah. Then what is it?”. Well… I think it’s called graphic design. {via Emily} Jo... »
Listen to the first 760,000 years of the universe – an auditory representation of the Big Bang. {via Surly Amy} “We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” Joan Didion on keeping a notebook. Grant Snider’s Definitions of Genius is, of course, genius. Here’s something we’ve been waiting for. DC intro... »
Pens down! Surf’s up! It’s the Friday Quickies… For nearly an entire month, “Red” Hong Yi created illustrations with food with only a plate as background. Her work is sure to charm you. Game of Cats. Yer welcome. {via Amanda D.} At the age of 15, Nick D’Aloisio might well have become the youngest millionaire. He created Summly. And then Yahoo bought it. {via Tiffany L... »
It is now possible to 3-D print the skeleton of a living animal. This is an 11-minute video on the process. Puppets teach kids about electronics in Episode 1 of Adafruit’s Circuit Playground “A is for Ampere”. LadyAda’s coloring book “E is for Electronics” is super fantastic! By building “fairy circles,” termites engineer their own ecosystem. Neil deGrasse Tyson holds forth... »
It’s Good Friday, kids. Fill your chalice with some sweet, sweet wine, enjoy an undead chocolate bunny and surf the Quickies! Celebrate the season with some delicious Crucifixion corn dogs. Michael Procopio gives us the recipe in his nostalgically confessional The Corn Dogs of Easter. Seriously, you guys, you have to see these Easter CakeWrecks and these Easter CakeWrecks. Omigodz the smokin... »
Does it feel like Friday or is it just me? We’ve got some hella great stuff here, so let’s begin… The Lenape made a damn fine potato chip. Unfortunately, it was also kind of toxic. Maggie Koerth-Baker wrote The case of the poison potato. {via Elizabeth F.} Hey, the Bad Astronomer made this list! 140 best twitter feeds of 2013. {via Amanda D.} Alexis Ohanian asks Dear Fellow Geeks... »
It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up! Masculism, MRA found poetry. You heard me. {via Surly Amy} Bruce D. Mitchell’s series Conceptual Executioner is riveting, masterful and genuinely formidable. Amy Eisenfeld Genser used rolled bits of paper and acrylic paint to create a series of underwater reefs and landscapes. “One has never lived till he has almost died. Life has a flav... »
