Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies: armored Barbie, bittersweet geometry, a tiny monster and more
Welcome to the mid-week Quickies!
- Tokyo-based artist Megumi Igarashi was arrested on obscenity charges for sending data that could be used to print 3D models of her vagina. {via Anne S.}
- Gaming the galaxy – “A new video game is revealing a number of conflicts between its model of the Milky Way and previous astronomical assumptions.”
- Jim Rodda had a bunch of fans who thought his kickstarter ws worthwhile.And y’know what? It really was. Now funded: 3D-Printed Open Source Medieval Armor for Barbie. {via Katie}
- Celestial Suds: Bell’s Brewery introduces a series of beers called “The Planets”. {via @CriticalDragon1177}
- Schematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams: “The mathematical poetics of time, or what matrices reveal about the matters of the heart.” {via Anne S.}
- This typographic clock is called Qlocktwo by Biegert & Funk.
- Want an evening of hilarity? Take a scientist — better yet, a female scientist — to see “Lucy” and then ask for a review. Andrew Bridgman saw the film and his response was to do a “Lucy” poster series imagining other stupid misconceptions. {via Anne S.}
- Seth Menachem is an awesome dad and completely unperturbed by his 2-year-old son’s penchant for wearing dresses.
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Strange Wonderful
A tiny monster dreams through her school day.
from the page
film by Stephanie Swart / ses@stephanieswart.com
music by Quiet American / quietamerican.org
stephanieswart.com/strangewonderful.html
made at RISD 2013
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Featured image is an illustration from “Schematics: A Love Story” by Julian Hibbard.
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