Mad Quickies 2.24

It’s the Friday Quickies!

• Who runs the world? Be sure to rollover the image. {thanks to Brian G.}
• “Tar Pit Tour: The Ice Age Miracle From Miracle Mile” — La Brea tar pits fossils, the George C. Page Museum, Project 23, and a mammoth named Zed.
• Tractatus de Herbis — 15th century Italian parchment manuscripts belonging to a class of books known as herbals.
• A poster a day: a visual vitamin. Johnny Selman created a poster a day in reaction to a headline each day. He expanded the 20-day project into BBCX365.
• Industrial robot to try its hand at sketching portraits.
• Stackable Tetris lamp!
• Glow-in-the-dark Lego-like zip drives. An idea whose time has come.

Vids after the jump.

Nyan Cat Variations
by Craig Davis Pinson

{thanks to Steve D.}

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Japanese Dragon Painter

{thanks to madfishmonger}

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Love Is Making Its Way Back Home
by Josh Ritter.

A stop motion animation using 12,000 sheets of construction paper.
Read more about the making of the video at Ritter’s blog.

from the page
Director: Erez Horovitz
Concept: Sam Cohen + Erez Horovitz
Illustrator: Sarah Graves
Text Illustrator: Savannah Wolf
Lead Production: Marlie Pesek + Eric Giordano
Photo Editor: Felipe Sanchez
Technical Director: Ali Mohammed
Grip: James Wells
Production Assistants: Paige Ellis, Jacqueline Geisheimer, Angelina Zhou, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson, Jovin Cronin, Faizan Ahmed

Produced at Danger!Awesome, special thanks to Nadeem Mazen and Ali Mohammed
Shot at Industry Lab, special thanks to Jamie Zigelbaum
Rigging provided by High Output, special thanks to Joe McLeish.

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Featured image from Tractatus de Herbis.