It’s the Friday Quickies! We’ve got a LOT to cover here, so let’s get started.
- A Mad shout-out to Noodle and GeekCrafts for featuring our boss! Surlyramics: Scents n’ Science
- The artist Alex Gross took 19th-century cabinet portraiture and created some pretty trippy trading-card-like images.
- In a provocative essay, Jonah Lehrer posits The future of science…is art? {via Jen M}
- Alissa Walker reports on Suzanne Lacy’s work and here is the artist’s project Three Weeks In January: End Rape in Los Angeles. {thanks to Amy D}
- This! Just in! Unchained Reaction stars Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman. Gets greenlight from the Discovery Channel. Mad Art Lab wishes it could be one of the teams. {via Maggie}
- Taking psychedelic drugs for science. {via Jennifer Ouellette}
Cinemagraphs galore plus lots of cool stuff and a special Who for you!
- The ever-droll Milton Mermikides and his tumblr of writes, and wrongs.
They’re, their. Its you’re guide to spelling. - Disney, Mickey and the Joy Division album cover. {via @exiledsurfer}
- Analog audio equipment made of paper — the detail!
- History of English: Hwæt Þú Ymbsprecest, Willis? by Jason Ramboz. (We see what you did there.)
- Lovely: Lamp shades made of book pages.
- New York fashion photographer Jamie Beck collaborated with motion graphics designer Kevin Burg and together they created the cinemagraph, a sort of gif that can be compelling, beautiful, or downright unsettling.
- 40 cinemagraphs plus tutorials at the end of the post.
- These are pretty awesome! 30 Kubrick Cinemagraphs.
- A tumblrful of cinemagraphs: If we don’t, remember me.
How to make a cinemagraph
A tutorial by Kert Gartner
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This next thing is so fantastic that you will want to buy us that Mad Art Lab underground lair that we’ve always wanted. Thanks to the good Doctor Cmar for hipping us to this.
Every Doctor Who Story 1963 to Now – A Babelcolour Tribute
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Featured image excerpted from Black Bolt by Alex Gross.
