Mad Quickies

Mad Quickies 6.12

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Maurice Sendak on Being a Kid

{via Surly Amy}

For more information, read Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood in Newly-Released Animated Video.

from the page

“I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I’m still frightened… Nothing changes.”
– Maurice Sendak

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James Gandolfini reads In The Night Kitchen
{via Surly Amy}

For more information, read Maurice Sendak Reflects on the Difficulties of Childhood in Newly-Released Animated Video.

from the page

James Gandolfini reading In The Night Kitchen at Maurice Sendak’s 80th Birthday tribute at the 92nd St. Y in New York (September 15, 2008).

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MRK’s stunning
aDiatomea

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*The full length aDiatomea video as exhibited at Haeckel’s Phyletic Museum in Jena, Germany.

more information at aDiatomea
posters
more pictures and prints at MRK’s flickr site/

aDiatomea is an artificial life system that uses various methods and notions of a-life research. The basic principle of aDiatomea is that every aspect of it is entirely mathematically generated and thus it is not created purposefully as an art piece but as a complex system that takes a life of its own. These artificial organisms are based on actual unicellular organisms known as Diatoms. These beautiful microscopic creatures are constructed using the superformula, an equation that can reproduce organic forms. Granular sound is injected in these organisms, acting as their life-force, while they interact with each other and their environment. This film shows a recording of 36 seconds of evolution in 5 different colonies of artificial diatoms, pushing the boundaries of complex computer calculations.

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Featured image is a Sphaeroidea outtake by MRK.

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Donna

Geologic Universe, vault-keeper. Sheer Brick Studio, principal. Empty Set, designer. Bethlehem Mounties, media. WDIY 88.1FM NPR station programmer. Skepchick.

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