Mad Quickies 7.27

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Artists create giant portraits on live grass.
• Book nerds: here’s your new perfume Paper Passion. Packaging by bibliophile Karl Lagerfeld. You heard me.
• Hypogean Wildstyle: Dominik Strzelec’s Byzantine Geology.
• Life under the microscope and the gallery of Bioscapes winners and honorable mentions.
• The Lure of Lead.
• Canadians get a mood wall to improve their mental health.
• Superhero manatees! {via Rebecca}

Jump for more!

• Parkinson’s Voice Initiative. Very cool. Please do it. {via Maria}
• Colette’s truffles, Allen Ginsburg’s borscht, Emily Dickinson’ coconut cake… recipes from authors.
• The Future Mapping Company sells lots of different maps, plus, well, future maps.
• “Once again, owning an exotic pet was proving to be nothing but trouble.” Christopher Boffoli’s elegant series: Big Appetites.
• Dream Anatomy.
• Laura Cattaneo AKA Halfpastwelve and her beauteous infographics.

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Five-year time-lapse project

Ants in my scanner

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Tal Moskovich did this as a student:

Future Perfect

from the page
Opening to a mini-series about the future that never was.

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Featured image is Aquamanatee by Joel Harris.

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