Mad Quickies 11.21

What are we thankful for? Lots and that includes YOU people! It’s the Thanksgiving* Quickies. Dig in!

• Do you know the four big differences between Canadian and American Thanksgiving?
• Vegan black metal holiday hell roast, explosive thermite stuffing and eight more of the oddest Thanksgiving cooking tutorials on youtube. AWESOME!
• Attn GeekMakers: Here’s your first-ever geek-genre awards program. Call for entries: Dec. 1st. {via Steve D.}
• Never gets old. Pi vs. Pie.
• I cannot make this up. Chinese posters of chubby babies in space.
• Prof. Christopher Emdin, Wu-Tang member GZA and the founders of the hip-hop lyrics website Rap Genius have devised program that uses hip-hop to teach science. {via Emily F.}
• This story is sure to burn your toast! Reward offered for stolen California rock carvings. {via Critical Dragon}

{*’Murican holiday}

Jump for Vi Hart’s Mathematical Thanksgiving Feast series!

• We love these mechanical insects by Justin Gershenson-Gates. And you can see more here. {via Emily F.}
• Thanksgiving turkey the right way: Braising. So sez the Finch & Pea.
• Cool infographic: Visualization of evolutionary time relative to one calendar year.
• It’s debatable if these are the 2,000 most important films of all time>, but it’s a damn cool infographic.

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Mathematical Thanksgiving Feast Part 1

Vi Hart makes Mathed Potatoes

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Mathematical Thanksgiving Feast Part 2

Vi Hart makes Green Bean Matherole

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I loved this.
I hope you do, too.

Jammed

from the page
Lamenting the demise of the audio cassette, we at M-I-E, thought it would be nice to try and find a fitting tribute to it’s faded glory. ‘Jammed’ is the story of a bold, heroic, Viewmaster robot, venturing into an unknown world to save an unknown soul. We had great fun making this short film, using a mixture of stop motion and 3D techniques. The music was composed by our talented friends, Dan and John, at Meanred.

CREDITS:

Director/Producer: M-I-E

3d Modelling: Rafael Jimenez

3d Animation: Sarah Beeby

Stop Frame Animation: Sarah Beeby

Animation Studio: Clapham Road Studios

Music and Sound Design: Meanred

LEGO Pop-up Todai-ji + Daibutsu
{via Victor’s mom}

This crazy thing includes schematics at the end of the short.

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Featured image is and excerpt from Bringing his playmates to the stars by designer Shi Shiming, 1980.

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