Mad Quickies 6.7

It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down! Surf’s up!

• Science geek, costumer extraordinaire and denizen of Mad Art Lab, Emily Finke posted this awesome thing at i09: Slut Shaming and Concern Trolling in Geek Culture.
• 73-year-old Tatsuo Horiuchi is an Excel spreadsheet artist. You read that correctly. {from Elyse}
• DIY Makers and Costumers: Bill Doran of Punished Props has a super-cool venture on Kickstarter. It’s the The Prop Space Gun Project.
• Tugboat Printshop carves and prints “The Moon”.
• The Oatmeal holds forth on the Mantis Shrimp, or “Genghis Khan bathed in sherbet ice cream”. Best description to date, if you ask me.
• Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones are the two legends dishing on how to design a typeface. {video}
• 3-D printed sugar at The Sugar Lab.
• Read up on the recap for Game of Thrones 3.9 – The Rains of Castamere by Laura Stone before the finale this weekend.
• Retail find and best tool ever: Zombie Apocalypse Charm Bracelet.
• It wasn’t until the 1940s that blue and pink became gender-specific.
• A guide to Nature Names for your Baby — at Bird and Moon.

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Science is beautiful!

Amazing Resonance Experiment

{via nowoo}

This is latest from brusspup: the visual patterns of audio frequencies seen through vibrating sand.

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OMIGODZ YOU GUYS!

Buzz Aldrin and Thomas Dolby Perform “She Blinded Me With Science”

{Aldrin’s mic is pretty hot but still… an awesome event.}

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The Art of Data Visualization | Off Book | PBS

from the page

Humans have a powerful capacity to process visual information, skills that date far back in our evolutionary lineage. And since the advent of science, we have employed intricate visual strategies to communicate data, often utilizing design principles that draw on these basic cognitive skills. In a modern world where we have far more data than we can process, the practice of data visualization has gained even more importance. From scientific visualization to pop infographics, designers are increasingly tasked with incorporating data into the media experience. Data has emerged as such a critical part of modern life that it has entered into the realm of art, where data-driven visual experiences challenge viewers to find personal meaning from a sea of information, a task that is increasingly present in every aspect of our information-infused lives.

Featuring:
Edward Tufte, Yale University
Julie Steele, O’Reilly Media
Josh Smith, Hyperakt
Jer Thorp, Office for Creative Research

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Featured image is “The Moon” by Tugboat Printshop.

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