Mad QuickiesVisual Art
Mad Quickies 9.28
- “Lives within a drop of water” is one of the collections of light microscope images in the Nikon Small World competition “Recognizing Excellence in Photography through the Microscope”. This is a visual feast and a perfect amalgam of aesthetics and microphotographic expertise. Each image has an explanatory attribution.
- Here’s a new way to do laundry…but it spins on your skills as a gamer.
- Make a pocket-sized match box pinhole camera! This is a groovy little project that uses 35mm film! (You do recall film, don’t you?) An excellent step-by-step process shows you how. Subscribe to Instructables and download a PDF.
- Forty masterfully-done infographics visualize data in many styles.
- Is Playbutton a fad or an innovation that will spark a new personal listening device trend? Whatever the answer, their blog is pretty fun to scroll through. {via Sarafina M.}
- Peter Gregson is a brilliant cellist, composer and performer. He is quite literally a pioneer in contemporary music and speaks frequently on innovation in the arts and digital culture.
Peter Gregson performs and speaks at TEDxAlcatraz, June 2011.
Hoping all the infographic fans are already looking at these sites:
Flowing Data (Nathan Yau): http://flowingdata.com/
visual.ly (sharing for infographics, soon to add tools to build them): http://visual.ly/
Pinhole photography: wondering if anyone’s built a pinhole camera around a CCD. I see lots of add-ons to make commercial digicams do pinhole photography, but nothing about repurposing the guts of a cheap cam into a pocket-size pinhole rig.
Playbutton: If they could make a version that you could burn your own tracks onto, the mixtape could get a new lease on life. Of course, that sort of thing would bring RIAA & ASCAP down on their heads right off. Oh well…
The Video game washing machine looks like it should be playing Spy Hunter. Just needs pedals.
Oh man, I love micro-photography. Those are awesome.
@wdonohue: A mixtape button is an awesome idea! I was meh on the idea till you suggested that. Now I want one I can do that with.