Mad Quickies: Lace Collages, Einstein Font, Cool NOVA Project, Rotoscoped Pins and More!

Happy Monday, darlings! Whether you’re starting your work week or ending a long weekend shift, it’s time to take a break and indulge in a little surfing. And you’re in luck- I have a hodgepodge of cool and curious things for you.

• Developed by the Life on Earth Project at Harvard’s School of Engineering, NOVA’s Evolution Lab is an interactive crash course on the history of life on Earth featuring games, activities and an education guide.
• Chris Burden was an edgy performance artist in his twenties. You might remember him as the guy who famously shot himself in the arm. Burden, however, was the real deal and spent a lifetime making art. He died on May 10th at 69 and will be honored for his final piece, “Urban Light”, a light sculpture at LACMA, considered a symbol of LA. {via Surly Amy}
• Paper artist Myriam Dion painstakingly cuts sweeping lace patterns into dense collages of newspaper covers. Dion kicks it old-school with an X-ACTO knife. You kids can go ask an old stripper what that is.
• Son Lux’s new music video is a rotoscoped and stop-motion video animated with hundreds of pins and rubberized thread. Please appreciate this incredibly cool clip that had to be laborious and frankly kind of ouchy. Footage included of music video and director Nathan Johnson talking about the process.
• Harald Geisler and Elizabeth Waterhouse have created a kickstarter to back them as they attempt to turn Albert Einstein’s handwriting into a font.
• QUIZ: Name the Star Wars Characters With the Most Lines. This is timed to 2 minutes. GO!
• These are SO pretty! Vibrant and summery, these jewelry-style temporary metallic tattoos are by Lulu DK and Flash Tattoos.
• One half of a boy-girl set of twins, Sarah Seltzer muses on Saying Goodbye to the Gendered Toy Aisle.
• Bar Luce is Milan was designed by Wes Anderson and it’s kitschy cool.
• When photographer Phillip Toledano was six years old, his sister Claudia died in an accident. His parents never spoke of her again. After they died, he found in their attic a cardboard box filled with Claudia’s things. This box provided a coping mechanism and inspiration for his book When I Was Six.
• Retail find: Thanks to Laura’s passion for Game of Thrones, we now know that MongoLife is offering a spolier-free Westeros in the style of Google Maps. And if you didn’t catch her last recap last week, here’s Episode 5.4, Sons of the Harpy. [Merreen=Boob eagle!]
• The MarySue excerpts an interview Scarlett Johansson did with Hero Complex on Avengers: Age of Ultron, Bruce Banner, And Sci-Fi.

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Where are all the aliens?

The Fermi Paradox
Superior animation and narrative by Kurz Gesagt.

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The universe is unbelievably big – trillions of stars and even more planets. Soo… there just has to be life out there, right? But where is it? Why don’t we see any aliens? Where are they? And more importantly, what does this tell us about our own fate in this gigantic and scary universe?

Videos, explaining things. Like evolution, time, space, global energy or our existence in this strange universe.
We are a team of designers, journalists and musicians who want to make science look beautiful. Because it is beautiful.

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Son Lux’s music video by The Made Shop.
Change is Everything

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Featured image is by Myriam Dion. The details of the entire piece: Vendredi 24 janvier, Tragédie de Isle-Verte, 2014. Newspapers cut with x-acto knife, collage. 57 x 56 in. (144.78 x 142.24 cm). Photo courtesy the artist and Division Gallery.

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