- In case you didn’t know it, Maki is a rockstar!
- Resolution – at xkcd
- NASA considers building $2.6 billion asteroid-grabbing space robot.
- Gary Kumparak built a little TARDIS and it’s bigger on the inside. {via Madfishmonger}
- An interactive guide to blog typography.
- 100 wooden toy cars by 100 designers. Super cool!
- How to make galaxy shoes. {via Smashley}
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- Comic books are the topic: Accidental Mysteries 12.30.12.
- Vote for sticker artists of the year at Street Anatomy.
- Well-designed classrooms and sensory impacts on learning.
- Pictures of David Bowie doing normal stuff. Very droll.
- My friend Geo observed that 2013 is the first year since 1987 where all four digits are different from one another. “Happy 13” by Gary Taxali.
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The Bad Astronomer writes about the video The Earth’s Story in 60 seconds…
…and here it is.
Our Story in 1 Minute
from the page
Get the song on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/our-story-single/id587283450
// A tapestry of footage tracing the cosmic and biological origins of our species, set to original music.
Also on Bandcamp: http://melodysheep.bandcamp.com/track/our-story
Inspired by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrqqD_Tsy4Q
Video sources:
Through The Wormhole with Morgan Freeman
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking
Do We Really Need the Moon? BBC
How Planet Earth Was Made
David Attenborough’s First Life
Life
Dinosaurs Alive
Journey to the Edge of the Universe
Last Day of the Dinosaurs
Walking With Cavemen
Human Planet
Mankind: The Story of All of Us
Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Wonders of the Universe
Quest for Fire
Baraka
The Tree of Life
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Ze Frank tells us
True Facts About The Angler Fish
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10 Most Common New Year’s Resolutions as Illustrated by Cats
http://youtu.be/KD9qvF4z8cE
from the page
These cats are here to count down the 10 most popular resolutions made each year. Links to original videos below…
Music purchased royalty-free from MelodyLoops (title: Joyful Background)
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Featured image is Happy 13 by Gary Taxali.
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I kinda want to do the opposite with that TARDIS thing. Make a large room that looks like a police box from the outside. Not exactly sure how to do that. Maybe have the TARDIS door flush with the outside of the room and use 3D displays to create the illusion of a police box parked in front of a building?
And 2013 is also the first year since 1432 to consist of 4 consecutive numerals. The next is 2031.
One of my projects that I tinker with from time to time is a Sketchup model I want to use to design a forced perspective illusion — a TARDIS that looks like it contains a full room when viewed from a specific vantage point. I think this guy’s strategy involves way less hair pulling than what I have in mind. Clever!