Mad Quickies 2.10

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• You’ve seen microscopy competition stills, but here are the 2011 Nikon Small World in Motion winners. The winner is an embryonic ink injection that is astounding. All three winning videos are complete with ancillary information. A real treat!
• Steve Albini cooks. No. Really. Like, on a stove. In a kitchen. And he writes about it! Make yer own Kerosene joke.
• Keep calm and tweet on. Social media propaganda. {via Joseph K}
• Arrivederci, Nello Ferrara, inventor of Atomic FireBalls, Lemonheads, and Black Forest Gummy Bears. Mille grazie. {via Surly Amy}
• Questionable Content. It’s a slice-of-life webcomic by Jeph Jacques, launched wa-a-a-ay back in 2003. {thanks to Todd D}

Lots more. Okay, go!

• Building a better spacesuit
• Famous explosions from history. In cauliflower {via Victor}
• Better than most of its kind: Interactive Starry Night.
• Today’s blog find: Monsters in real places. And you can contribute your own entry! {via Lost in E Minor}
• Today’s bauble find: nOir Jewelry, specifically the DC Comics and, oddly enough, the Disney collections.
• Best Friends. A visual representation of the artist’s on-line relationships. {via Daniela}

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New OK Go Music Video Features Over 1,000 Musical Instruments Hit By A Moving Vehicle

from the page—
The new music video from OK Go, made in partnership with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles. A Chevy Sonic was outfitted with retractable pneumatic arms designed to play the instruments, and the band recorded this version of Needing/Getting, singing as they played the instrument array with the car. The video took 4 months of preparation and 4 days of shooting and recording. There are no ringers or stand-ins; Damian took stunt driving lessons. Each piano had the lowest octaves tuned to the same note so that they’d play the right note no matter where they were struck. For more information and to download the studio version of the song for free, visit http://www.LetsDoThis.com and http://www.okgo.net. Many thanks to Chevy for believing in and supporting such an insane and ambitious project, and to Gretsch for providing the guitars and amps.

Director: Brian L. Perkins & Damian Kulash, Jr.
Director of Photography: Yon Thomas
Editor: Doug Walker
Producer: Luke Ricci

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Featured image by Marco Martins.