Mad Quickies 3.13

• Pixar’s senior scientist, Tony DeRose, explains how math makes the movies and games we love. {via Mary B.}
• It’s not too late to buy John Coulthart’s 2013 Cthulhu Calendar.
• You Are Stardust teaches kids about the universe via gorgeous illustrated dioramas
• Mahendra Nazar draws some darn adorable Microbiological friends.
• Retail find: Manhattan Subway Tape.
• Pretty pictures from the wayback machine: the exhibition Brainstorm which also, strangely enough, sparked a controversy.
• It’s not only the first interactive picture book, but Christoph Niemann’s Petting Zoo is super cool!
• Nicholas Felton—y’know, of facebook timeline design—that guy unveiled his latest annual report: Feltron 2012.
• Scitable is a free online science library. Yer welcome.
• Pinterest find: launched at sxsw, GE Garages is a high-tech, hands-on lab celebrating inventors and entrepreneurs.
• Tumblr find: the beautifully creepy curiosity cabinet that is Wunderkammer.

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Christoph Malin’s
The ISS Image Frontier – “Making the invisible visible”

Read what the Bad Astronomer has to say in his post The View from Above Our World.

from the page

The 3-minute-attention-span is not valid for this film: A tribute to the International Space Station Program as well as Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut and ISS Astrophotographer. It can not be emphasized enough, how Dr. Pettits innovative photographic work and his passion has changed the way we see earth from space. Accompanied with great info on the challenges of astrophotography aboard the ISS by Dr. Pettit, this shortfilm features a compilation of 4 special ISS timelapses (“intro”, “startrails”, “fisheye” and “aurorae”). Welcome aboard the ISS – enjoy stunning photography and timelapses from the Space Station!

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Breaking the 4th wall in film
A supercut by Leigh Singer
Posted at Press Play by Matt Zoller Seitz

Go to the video’s site for a list of all the movie cuts.

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Featured images are from Christoph Niemann’s Petting Zoo iPad app.

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