Mad Quickies 2.15

Heck with the 9 to 5…It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Alejandro Guijarro snapped chalk scribbles: Photos of Physicists’ Blackboards.
• Could Col. Chris Hadfield possibly be any cooler? He and Ed Robertson from Barenaked Ladies collaborated on the first space/earth duet! It’s wonderful and positive, just like Hadfield. Here are the music charts and lyrics.
• Alan Friedman is a fascinating cat. He takes extraordinary pictures of the sun from his backyard.. This is a Lab favorite so you should check it out. {via Katie}
• What do you mean you don’t know about Bug Girl’s blog? Here ya’ go: The horrible truth about Spiderman’s anatomy.
• Forgotten female illustrators and designers. How very shocking.
• Adriana Kaprálová Hauznerová used a macro lens to produce her gorgeous series Oil Spills.
• Design Nerdz: Hold onto your type gauge. This Lorem Ipsum generator for typographers lets you select languages/character sets including L33tspeak, Esperanto and Morse Code!
• Stunning must-see GIF animation: Hidden Typography by Japanese 3D illustrator MountStar.
• Tiny drum shows Uncertainty Principle. {via Surly}
• Make More Things by Jen Myers.
• Infographic: Future of Libraries. {via la bibliotequetress}
• Beyond the white cube: six experimental museums.
• Happy birthday, Galileo! … at Literary Jukebox.
• Dissections by Angela Christine Smith combine ink and photography. {nsfw}
• Pinterest find: Lisa DHem’s Science/Technology/History .
• From the wayback machine: Photoshop 1.0’s elegant source code. Also, did you know there is a Computer History Museum?
• Lilicoptère, A Gilded Helicopter Fit for Marie Antoinette. I…whut?
• The Perception of Magic by Dan and Dave. {video included}

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One of my favorite things EVER:

Chris Hadfield and Barenaked Ladies: I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)

from the page
The Barenaked Ladies, a children’s choir, and the commander of the International Space Station. Put them together and what do you get? The first space-to-earth musical collaboration.
The song, “I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing) was commissioned by CBCMusic.ca and The Coalition for Music Education with the Canadian Space Agency to celebrate music education in schools across Canada.

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Doomed

from the page
El Señor Studio has the honour to present the failures of the natural selection. A set of strange creatures whose instincts instead of focusing on survival seem doomed them to an absurd and comic extinction, in the presence of the astonished gaze of the narrator.

This is also the story of the relationship between these creatures and its Narrator. The character of the Narrator was a documentary star, but unfortunately for him, the good times are over and he is forced to accept this strange documentary, which he considered far below its potential.

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Abecedarium – Processing and 3D printing with ToDo

from the page
The workshop was about designing and printing an ‘abecedarium’ where each letter had to represent a concept, in a visual and iconic way.

The the three-dimensional geometries of the letters were created with code using Processing and 3D printed.

The workshop was held by Fabio Franchino and Giorgio Olivero from ToDo studio and organized by Davide Fornari as part of the Visual Communication Bachelor degree at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland).

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Featured image is credited to Aimee Stubbs/Nashville Zoo. It’s a baby tapir who was saved by CPR.

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