Mad Quickies 3.8

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Judith Larson painted giant oil portraits to memorialize female reporters killed in action. {via Surly Amy}
• Laurent Debraux makes mesmerizingly beautiful kinetic sculptures. {videos}
• Three Pentagram designers unearthed the fascinating first rulebook for subway design. {via Kate Sherrod}
• Doug Aitken’s latest show destroyed the floor of the 303 Gallery. And it was worth it.
• 22 rules of storytelling from Pixar.
• This site is a spectacular find! The books that inspire the world’s esteemed designers. {thanks to @wdonohue}
• Freddie Mercury’s Chicken dhansak, Steve Albini’s food blog, and other entries on musicians and food.
• Eerie portraits of Taiwanese stage trucks are, well, eerie, loud and haunting.
• An installation at the Belfast Children’s Festival is Space Pups, puppies inflating and deflating in mid-air.
• Vortex smoke rings were created with 3D printed wings.
• From the wayback machine Celtic animals.

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Marina Abramovic and Ulay

from the page

Marina Abramovic and Ulay started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again. In 2010, Marina performed ‘The Artist Is Present’, a minute of silence with each stranger who sat in front of her. Ulay arrived without her knowing it and this is what happened.

http://youtu.be/XNcWRbh8wQA

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Blixa Bargeld makes calamari risotto

Figures he’d make a black risotto.

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A meme reduced to its purest form…

Minimalist Harlem Shake

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Featured image is an excerpt from a stage truck by Shen Chao-Liang.

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