It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!
- James McNabb sketches with a bandsaw. No. Really. {via Elyse}
- Thanks to Iris Van Herpen, the future of fashion shook its tush on the catwalk. {via Gigi}
- Your new time suck is a textbook Fitts-ian challenge: Super Resize Me. Yer welcome.
- The Dogs of NYC – charming project including an interactive map and name games.
- Jeongmoon Choi makes fluorescent labyrinthine installations.
- How to make your bed into Totoro. {via Emily}
- Fitness bands go sleek and chic with an add-bling option.
- An MRI study exposes the physics of beatboxing.
- GIFs that will blow your mind by digital artist Paolo Čerić. GO NOW!
Please continue! {also, cats}
- Maria Popova hates design awards. This makes her a perfect jury member.
- When it comes to choosing the best investments, cats beat stockbrokers. {via Geo}
- Speaking of investments: Bloomberg’s Billionaires.
- Instructables releases app for iPhone and iPad.
- “His hair is just too polarising.” and other examples of client stupidity. {via the Astronomy Bum}
- Pinterest finds: a memorial to Carl Sagan; Pattern Language; and digital storyteller Matthew Carlson.
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‘Voyager’ – The Sounds of Earth
from the page
Inspired by the space probes of the 1970s (Voyager 1 and 2), this animation presents an abstract interpretation of the journey the probes took through our solar system and what wonders they revealed to our planet.
Written and Directed by: Luke Busby
Music: John Hopkins
CG: Luke Busby
Editing / Compositing: Luke Busby
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Shugo Tokumaru’s extraordinary
Katachi
from the page
2013
“Katachi” means “shape”.
The video is made with approx. 2000 silhouettes extracted from PVC plates using computer-controlled cutter.
Director, Concept, Animation – Kijek/Adamski
Production – Katarzyna Rup / Ab Film Production
Cast – Artur Cetnarowski
Gaffer – Heliograf, Blitz
Studio set – PlumArt Marcin “Śliwa” Śliwiński, Arek Szot, Joanna Kijek
PVC cutting – Dawid Krzyżanowski/ My-Art myart.com.pl
Thanks – Studio Las, Paweł Reyman
shugotokumaru.com
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Catvertising
{via Adam}
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Featured image is an excerpt of art at The Dogs of NYC illustrated by Louise Ma/WNYC.
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