Mad Quickies 5.27

• The book Spacesuit is slated to become a movie. It’s about how Playtex designers made the moon landing possible. {via Anne S.}
• 5,000 cave paintings have been discovered in Mexico at 11 sites. What’s more, this area was previously thought to be uninhabitable.
• Id-Grids and Ego-Graphs: A Typographic Confabulation with Finnegans Wake by artist and poet Jacob Drachler (1909-1998) is a stunning graphic response to Joyce’s classic.
• Dr. Isaac Kohane holds forth on how an age-old chart is redefining health care and the disconnect in health care IT.
• “Bang, pling, boing, shriek, gasper, screamer, Christer! And other exclamation mark aliases” by Stan Carey
• Banksy’s Coke ad. {via nowoo}
• Nicky Walsh created a food photo series inspired by the Bauhaus collective .
• An amusing video sendup of what an historically accurate Disney princess movie would be like. {via CriticalDragon1177}
• This jewelry will hug your fingers. How, you ask? Because SLOTH RINGS! {via Anne S.}
• Eat the Evidence explains how you can make your own Gummy Lego Minifig Army. {via Tim L.}
• A plate a day and A cup a week.
• I’m loving these vintage magic posters!
• Kids say some pretty creepy things. {via Tiffany L.}

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Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei

Via miserlyoldman who describes the video:
“John Green’s vlogbrothers video about Ai Weiwei’s exhibit in the
Indianapolis Museum of Art, and he discusses why good art matters and
has always mattered.”

from the page
In which John visits the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where his wife is a curator, and thinks about the work of the artist and dissident Ai Weiwei while walking through “According to What,” his first major retrospective in the United States.

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This is a wonderful stop-motion video by Ben Barrett-Forrest.
The History of Typography – Animated Short
Found at Jerry Lieveld.

from the page

A paper-letter animation about the history of fonts and typography.
291 Paper Letters.
2,454 Photographs.
140 hours of work.
Created by Ben Barrett-Forrest
© Forrest Media – 2013
http://www.forrestmedia.org
http://www.facebook.com/forrestmedia
Tweets by benbf
Information Sources:
Thinking in Type by Ellen Lupton
Just My Type by Simon Garfield
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Game of Thrones – Friends Style Opening – SPOILERS!

{found via @@edyong209}

This isn’t a spoiler if you are current with the series.

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Featured image is a vintage magic poster collected by Rene Walter of Nerdcore.

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