Mad Quickies 2.27

• Mad Art Lab gets a shout-out on the Scientific American blog! {via Surly Amy}
• We can thank the Vatican’s fresco painters for a food-history find. {via Emily}
• Meet Jennifer Angus: her medium is insects.
• More awesome greek text processors: Bacon Ipsum and Samuel Lipsum ,using quotes from Samuel L. Jackson movies. {via BonnieBeth}
• The Distraught Cosmonaut is a haunting series of paintings by Jeremy Geddes.
• Hopper paintings are recreated as sets for the movie Shirley – Visions of Reality. Superb visual essay.
• Exposing Danny Quirk through anatomical art. Just- wow!
• The first artwork sold on the Internet.
• New from Bird and Moon: I.D. {via Bug Girl}
• Game of Thrones Art Show by Mondo Gallery & HBO at SXSW.
• Pinterest find: With degrees in art and science, Loralei Byatt’s When Art and Science Intersect is a beautiful thing.
• At Design Observer: A dictionary of Surrealism and the graphic image.
• A Dictionary of Victorian Slang (1909) is something fascinating and available to view or download at the Internet Archive..

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A scientific game-changer:
The Super Supercapacitor
For more information: story at io9

from the page

THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Learn more about the Competition and FOCUS FORWARD at focusforwardfilms.com

Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth. What he found was a new way to power the world.

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Seb Lester demonstrates Blackletter Calligraphy
Found at Colossal.

from the page

BlackLetter was used throughout Europe from about 1150 until the end of the 17th century. One of my current preoccupations is developing a set of modern BlackLetter capitals that are highly legible, in BlackLetter terms, and yet retain the richness and beauty inherent in this ancient category of letterform. From time to time I will film clips like this to record my progress. Prints and originals available from seblester.co.uk. Music by Carlos Márquez, soundcloud.com/cmdigital

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Featured image is an excerpt from The White Cosmonaut by Jeremy Geddes, oil on board.

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