Mad Quickies 1.11

• The entirety of Mad Art Lab was blown away by this: Riusuke Fukahori painting three-dimensional goldfish embedded in resin. Fukahori’s process is compelling and Dominic Alves’ images do his work justice. {thanks to nowoo} A permanent video here. {props to Maggie}
• We bid a fond farewell to James F. Crow, population genetics pioneer. Crow helped shape public policy toward atomic radiation damage and the forensic use of DNA. Interestingly enough, he had considered a career in music and, infact, played viola with a symphiny orchestra for 50 years.
• Both poignant and humorous, “How to explain it to my parents” is a documentary by Lernert Engelberts in which five abstract artists explain to their parents what their work is all about. Episode 1, subtitled video.
• Brent Yaggi and Sarah Hicks fly at 2,000 feet to capture patterns from above.
• Bookshelf porn! {thanks to Victor}
• “Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter” is the critically acclaimed new documentary about those two iconic creatives and legends of modernist furniture design.
• Fonderie 47 confiscates AK47s from African war zones, and transforms them into luxury jewelry. Purchase these beauties and you help destroy assault weapons in Africa.

More cool stuff after the jump…plus a robot!

• Pasta by Design {via Maria}
• Vera Balyura is the artist behind Verameat — jewelry that includes dinosaurs, vampires, mosters and cosmonauts. Her about page tells a good story.
• Architect and designer Jerome Daksiewicz of Nomo Design has created minimalist odes to some of the world’s busiest runways.
• Emigre, a favorite foundry, now offers a web fonts collection.
• Branding 10,000 Minnesota Lakes is a lovely and ambitious project.
• Turn your screeninto a scene with seamless ambient videos of an aquarium, a fireplace, the view of space from the captain’s brdge.
• Anything can become jewelry. Even dental X-rays.
• Great origami with some interesting diversity. By Brian Chan. {via Maria}

Robot rides a bike, steers and corrects itself! {via Maria}

Featured image by Dominic Alves.