Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies 4.5
Pens down! Surf’s up! It’s the Friday Quickies…
- For nearly an entire month, “Red” Hong Yi created illustrations with food with only a plate as background. Her work is sure to charm you.
- Game of Cats. Yer welcome. {via Amanda D.}
- At the age of 15, Nick D’Aloisio might well have become the youngest millionaire. He created Summly. And then Yahoo bought it. {via Tiffany L.}
- Sociological Images has announced a Logo Contest. This one might be worth it. {via Mary B.}
- This is more than a little disconcerting. Alessandro Conti’s Inhuman Anatomy. {via Daniela}
- If you’re like me, you love looking at the journals and notebooks of thinkers and creators. Then here is something extraordinary: Einstein’s Zurich Notebook. A tip o’ the fez to Logan Ayliffe.
- Wired interviews artist activist, Molly Crabapple, whose lushly painted exhibition Shell Game illustrates the revolutions of 2011.
- Da Nang City celebrated its 38th anniversary of liberation with this fire-breathing dragon bridge. As you do.
- This is a pretty genius. The Tutor Crowd has mounted a guerilla marketing campaign, correcting spelling mistakes in grafitti.
- Best watering holes ever? Book-filled bars!
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Just when I think I can’t love this guy more…
George Takei speaks at TEDxBroadway
This is a very moving and personal story. Found at The Mary Sue.
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Tetris Stop Motion Chalk Art
Chris Carlson is a chalk artist and the owner of 3-D Designs. This is Carlson’s tumblr.
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If Magritte directed a jewelry ad…
Daniel Sannwald’s crated this short film for Delfina Delettrez’s Fall 2013 line. Found at Fast.Co.
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Featured image is Syntagma Athena from Shell Game by Molly Crabapple.