It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down- surf’s up!
- The August 2012 SIGGRAPH roundup of the newest ideas in computer graphics.
- Geeks versus Nerds, a podcast of debate on serious religious issues such as, “who is the smarter master of mysteries, Sherlock Holmes or Doctor Who?” {via Julianne H}
- Cali getting it right. Artists and scientists connect in 16 collaborative explorations. {via Amy}
- Announcing a new podcast: Mad Science with Princess Scientist! Theme song by Devo Spice, logo by JC Hutchins. {via Steve D}
- This will bake your noodle: Resonate is an extraordinary interactive sound and light installation. Video after the jump.
Neil, Scott, sound art, and 5,000 images in 1 minute.
Plus, more SpArkLecoRn scatology.
- The thesaurus lists the following synonym for flatulence: grandiloquence. And here it is, unicorn-style. {via Anne}
- Thanks to Steve D, we now know that amazeballs unicorn clip is excerpted from The Mighty B! Amy Poehler is one of the creators.
- And then there’s this: Unicorns Farting Rainbows. It’s educational! {via Steve D}
- I don’t know how they narrowed it down, but Wired reports on 10 insanely cool things they saw at Maker Faire, including 5 videos.
- In which Elyse inspires Treelobsters to create comics here and, very recently, here.
- John Scalzi’s Star Trek spoof —even more clever and moving than you’d expect.
- Aussie artist, Erica Seccombe combines photographic screen prints with digital media. She’s exhibiting Nanoplastica at So Far, The Future in London.
- Want! Typography scrabble.
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For inspiration…
Neil Gaiman’s Commencement Speech
{via Maria}
Neil Gaiman addresses the Class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. And anyone who is an artist.
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For beauty…
From love to bingo in 873 images
{via Elyse}
from the page
Patient research work involving more than 5 thousand photographs resulted in a 1 minute film that AlmapBBDO created to advertise Getty Images, the world leading image database for creating and distributing visual contents. The film is surprising when showing 873 images in 15 images per second, sufficient speed to transform the series into a video that, without any text, tells a beautiful story. All photos, without any exceptions, are from the Getty Images archives.
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For art…
Resonate at Luminale 2012
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For fun…
Tentacles, Tentacles and More Tentacles
The first story ever written by Scott, recorded by fans at Dragon*Con 2010 in Atlanta. Brace yourselves for the most frightening story ever told!
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Featured image is by Zizi.
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