Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 11.1
It’s the late-in-the-day Friday Quickies! Cocktails down. Surf’s up!
- Here’s your favorite scroll-of-the-day: Cosplayers at home. Seriously awesome images by Klaus Pitchler! Find more here. [Why isn’t @seelix in that list?]
- Make rainbows with this giant LED glow stick. That is SpArKleCorn-a-licious! {via Elizabeth H.}
- A 10-year-old boy, Canadian Nathan Gray discovered a 600-million-year-old supernova. What’s even cooler is that his sister Kathryn Aurora had already discovered a supernova! And what did YOU do today? {via Surly Amy}
- Nicholas Cage as Disney princesses. And why not? [via @chebutykin}
- If TED talks have been lying to us, then creatives are screwed. {via Surly amy}
- Astoundingly blinged-out Catacomb Saints by Paul Koudounaris.
- Retail Find: from Rarity’s Boutique, a line of <a href="“Winter is Coming” hoodies.
- Korean artist and sculptor Hyungkoo Lee created Animatus, Realistic Skeletons of Looney Tunes & Other Classic Cartoon Characters.
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And now for something completely different…
10 Figures of Speech
As illustrated by Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
The figures of speech include: Paradiastole, Epanorthosis, Syncatabasis, Grandiloquence, Pleonasm, Synonymia, Auxesis & Meiosis, Paralipsis, Paraprosdokian, and Apheresis/Apocope/Syncope.
http://vimeo.com/72326669
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Featured image is from the series “Just the Two of Us” by Klaus Pitchler.
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