You guys, our trusty correspondent and art guy of major skills, Brian, is off on a seekrit assignment. I can never adequately match his awesomeness at Quickifying the net for you but I can humbly offer these fab links. Enjoy!
- I’m going to lead with this but after you read it, you might be pretty busy for a while. Please do remember to return to read the rest of the Quickies. Download 422 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. {via Surly Amy}
- Neural pathologies have shaped great art throughout history. Click through the amazing article “Famous Paintings Can Reveal Visual Disorders” and read the backstory on a handful of masterpieces. {via Smashley}
- The technical “wow” factor is pegging the meter on this one. Artists hack an Xbox Kinect and create an experimental film on movement. The collaborators of “asphyxia” are by Maria Takeuchi with Frederico Phillips and the endeavor is performed by Shiho Tanaka. Screen captures and a “making of” video explain the process.
- Architect Federico Babina has created a series called Archizoo – illustrations that imagine animals as well-known architectural structures. Completely charming.
- Here’s your moment of feminist inspiration: 16 Powerful Quotes About What It Means to Be a Woman . {via A Kovacs}
- I don’t know about you, but I never tire of seeing GIFs that are creative and masterfully executed. And so I give you the mesmerizingly gorgeous geometric GIFs by Florian de Looij.
- Book cover designer and AD at Knopf’s Pantheon Peter Mendelsund created covers for a series of Kafka titles.
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Dinosaurs: Terrible Lizards
Animation that is terrifying and adorable at the same time.
{via @CriticalDragon1177}
from the page
The name ‘Dinosaur’ literally translates as ‘Terrible Lizard’. In our world, they really are terrible. In fact they are absolutely useless.
All the dinosaurs featured really existed.
Dinosaurs: Terrible Lizards is an animated comedy nature documentary in which an unseen narrator guides us through the lost world of these majestic morons.
The Allosaurus has a head so heavy it drags along the floor.
The Apatosaurus has a neck so long and thin it dangles like a piece of
rope.
This is an ecosystem of gigantic idiots.
By Joel Veitch, Alex Mallinson and David Shute
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Featured image is “Distortions” by Francis Bacon, courtesy of CORBIS.
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