Mad Quickies: birthday suits, hidden passions, dystopian landmarks and more

It’s the Weekend Quickies! Put down that to-do list, you guys… surf’s up!

• Photographer Lucy Hilmer has taken a self-portrait on her birthday in her underwear for 40 years More images at her website. nsfw {via Brian G.}
• Wikimedia refuses to remove animal selfie because technically a macaque owns the photo, which means, Wikimedia says, makes it public domain. {via Smashley}
• Photographers Ursula Sprecher and Andi Cortellini have captured portraits of people and their hidden passions.
• “Art Everywhere” is an ambitious outdoor art project that has enlisted all 50 states to host billboards of two centuries of American art.
• Restoration Hardware’s Mail-Order Extravagance – or – how Gary Friedman has made the blandest furnishings his company’s mission. Nothing green about his beige to greige palette.
• Feeling a little too chipper? This should take you down a few notches: This Is What Famous Landmarks Would Look Like After A Global Disaster. Digital paintings by John Walters and Peter Baustdaeter.
• Photo of the day: Bioluminescence and Galactic Glow. {via @Xeni}
• Retail find: cardiac wallpaper.
• In the zoo of the future, it’s humans who are in the cage. Danish architect Bjarke Ingels wants to build a cage-free zoo.
• These are 25 outdoor sculptures from around the world that are worth a skim. [via @DavidTylerMcKay]

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This is downright mesmerizing…

flight of a small brown moth
by Dennis Hlynsky

http://vimeo.com/102399221

from the page

Working with the Edgertronic camera from the RISD Edna Lawrence Nature Lab. Photographing at Blythwold Gardents in Bristol RI.
This clip has been processed three ways. The original recording is shot at 1/6000 of a second at a frame rate of 1000 samples per second. The first flight off the flower approximates real time, the second employes echo and reflects the slow motion of 1000 samples per second played back at 30. The last section (bluish) is keyed then time blended to accentuate the pattern the silhouette creates when the moth is in flight.

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Featured image is by Robert Steven Connett. Found at But does it float with an elaborate title by Terence Mcenna: These self-transforming machine elf creatures were speaking in a colored language which condensed into rotating machines that were like Fabergé eggs but crafted out of luminescent superconducting ceramics and liquid crystal gels.

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