Mad Quickies 12.19

It’s the Holiday-ishly Mad Gifts and other Quickies…

• Morbid Anatomy‘s fantabulous gifts from a holiday fair.
• Spock earrings. {via Anne S.}
• DIY! A TARDIS ornament, a Dalek ornament, and snowflakes. {via Steve D.}
• Strangest gift set EVAR. NSFW. {via Anne S.}
• Restless kids? Try Science Projects for the Holidays.
• Bec Crew’s book – “Zombie Tits, Astronaut Fish and Other Weird Animals”.
• Need some holiday attire? Christmas Story bunny costume! {via Victor}
• Yanko Design’s Holiday Gift Guide.
• Quite possibly my new favorite: The Worst Things For Sale. {via Anne S.}
• Always a great idea: Galileoscope Kit.
• Bad Astronomer’s holiday gift to you: The Best Astronomy Images of 2012. Must see! {via Geo}

Dogs, Downton Abbey and more gifty-ness…

• The Human Body Science Kit.
• How to throw your own ‘Downton Abbey’-style Christmas dinner.
• EasyStill! {via Steve D.}
• MSN’s Dogs of the Year. {via Kerry}
• Game of Thrones gets a Minecraft makeover. {via Brian G.}
• The Big Feminist But. Let’s kickstart this, kids! {via Surly Amy}
• Excellent: The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook.
• At Design Observer: Fairy Tale Architecture: Snowflake.
• An interesting group: the top 50 Christmas toys from the last 100 years.
• At Dezeen — their last-minute holiday gift guide.
• And Design Taxi’s last-minute gift guide, too.

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Max Hattler’s
Spin

from the page
“Has it really been over 2½ years since Max Hattler first teased us with his toy solider animation Spin? Well like an early choreographed Christmas present Max’s conflict spectacle finally makes its way online to entertain us.” Directors Notes (17 Dec 2012) FINALLY ONLINE, THE FULL VERSION OF MAX HATTLER’S MULTI-AWARD WINNING ‘SPIN’ (2010)
Full info and credits
“Utilising a Busby Berkeley-style song and dance routine, with CGI toy soldiers as the players, Hattler succeeds brilliantly in blurring the lines between conflict and entertainment in a piece laced with satire. One foot wrong, and a film like this can quickly take the wrong turn into mawkish territory. But Hattler’s Spin triumphs were so many fail; engaging an audience and hitting them with the knock-out blow of a wake-up call.” The Double Negative (2012) “Max Hattler’s fantastically bizarre, deliciously satirical Spin, a madcap…
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Dead Head

from the page

The origin of Dead Head.

Animation by Robert Wallace

Audio by Rory Harnden

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Featured image is an excerpt of the transit of Venus.
Photo by JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin.
From a post by Phil Plait.

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