Mad Quickies 3.22

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Masculism, MRA found poetry. You heard me. {via Surly Amy}
• Bruce D. Mitchell’s series Conceptual Executioner is riveting, masterful and genuinely formidable.
• Amy Eisenfeld Genser used rolled bits of paper and acrylic paint to create a series of underwater reefs and landscapes.
• “One has never lived till he has almost died. Life has a flavor the protected will never know.” That’s just one of the engraved Zippos belonging to soldiers in the Vietnam War.
• Gregory Boratyn shot staggeringly beautiful images of Antelope Canyon in Arizona.
• Zaha Hadid designed a Liquid Glass Table.
• It is our opinion that the graphic design that @ologies does is darn excellent.
• Oh, clueless studio executives- your notes on modern classics are hilariously clueless.
• Sad nostalgia: In search of research. {via Steve D.}
• Veronique Greenwood’s mom is a futurist which is why she grew up in the future. {via Emily F.}
• UX nerdz: Digital products should foster good habits so users can help themselves in spite of themselves
• Love potions do not equal consent!. Y’know… if we believed in love potions. {via Anne S.}
• From the What the Hell Were They Thinking Dept.: Some classics were inadvertently redesigned with embarrassingly bad covers. With cheeky captions!
• Diet Wegman plays with your mind with his shadow sculptures.
• Awww dammit! “Gestalt” is on this list, the cliches the Washington Post strongly recommends the writers avoid.
• This almost looks unreal. 25 Microscopic Images of Snow Crystals.
• At SMBC: Assassinating Hartler.
• Letterforms are hardly more charming than Noisy Alphabet.

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This. Is. AWESOME!

From Mental Floss
50 Common Misconceptions

from the page
A weekly show hosted by John Green, where knowledge junkies get their fix of trivia-tastic information. This week, John debunks 50 common misconceptions that most people have about topics such as vikings, exploding birds and peanut butter.

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I want to have this kind of singular focus.

Kiwis

{via Tiffany L.}

from the page

My Master’s Thesis Animation, which I completed while I was at The School of Visual Arts, MFA Computer Art, in New York City. Created using Maya, After Effects, and rigged using The Setup Machine by Anzovin studios. If you would like to download there is a small version at my website: www.donysanimation.com

The music is original and is by Tim Cassell, someone I went to highschool with. The music is available here:
http://donysanimation.com/01KiwiTheme…
http://donysanimation.com/02KiwiTheme…

Alot of people have been emailing me asking a whole lot of questions. Maybe you can find some answers here:
http://www.isfat.com/happyjunk/kiwi.php

Everyone thank you so much for your compliments and kind words!

http://www.savethekiwi.org.nz
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Featured image is River Run by Amy Eisenfeld Genser. 46″ x 72″ x 5″
Paper and acrylic on canvas.

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