Mad Quickies 11.23

It’s the Quickies on Caturday! Surf’s up!

• Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota made custom shirts for her son with popular internet cats on them.
• Mercy Academy gets real with its ad campaign meant to empower school-age women. {via Elizabeth H.}
• Clever minimalistic representations of famous scientists. How many make sense to you? {via Daniela}
• This isn’t your grandmother’s fabric printing kit. It’s Lumi Inkodye! {via Mary B.}
• On The Daily Show – Neil deGrasse Tyson: Buzzkill of Science. {via CriticalDragon1177}
• You can get quilts at stitch’T made from your own t-shirts.
• Coolest little invention in progress: Circuit Scribe lets you draw functional electrical circuits on paper. Let’s kickstart this!
• Book find for your wish list or gift list: The Best American Infographics with an introduction by David Byrne.
• Pinterest find: Ancestral Cosmologies: “A Global Exploration of Indigenous Art and Legend.”
• Courtly cats — portraits in the style of classical oil paintings.

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Happy Anniversary, Dr. Who!

Doctor Who Animation – 50 Years in Time and Space
{via Anne S.}

from the page

http://www.richardswarbrick.com
An animation by Richard Swarbrick @RikkiLeaks https://twitter.com/RikkiLeaks
Additional animation by Eva Wagner @ScribbleUrges
www.hotspurandargyle.co.uk

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A story of love and loss and a one-armed astronaut.
Riveting, poignant, mesmerizing and brilliant.

Somewhere (2013)

Director’s Notes

Found at io9.

from the page
Somewhere, our limbs lost in the distance.
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First year film made at the Royal College of Art.
For more infos about the film, have a look at these articles:
Creators Project: goo.gl/eHJ7tC
Directors Notes: goo.gl/dII6M1
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Direction and Animation: Nicolas Ménard (nicolasmenard.com)
Music and Sound Design: Rich Vreeland (disasterpeace.com)
Additional Animation: Anne-Louise Erambert, Louise Druelle, Oliver Hamilton, James Hatley
© Royal College of Art, 2013
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nicolasmenard.tumblr.com
twitter.com/NicolasMenard

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Featured image is The Hermitage Court Chamber Herald Cat by Eldar Zakirov.

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