Coming to you straight from the sun-kissed Jersey shore…
It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down… Surf’s up!
- Infographic of the Day: Europa Report: Jupiter’s Icy Moon Explained. {via Surly Amy}
- xkcd’s Randall Munroe reveals the backstory of the epic 3,990-panel Time. [Film at the end of this post.]
- Chef Rhiannon from Cakecrumbs created these wonderful planetary structural layer cakes.
- Starting an artisanal something-or-other? Design your own hipster logo in 6 easy steps.
- New Zealand artist Peter Trevelyan makes delicately geometric “built drawings” from graphite rods.
- Pretty cool: free streaming science documentaries.
- And in other news, I give you a 35-foot tall straw Dalek.
- Tropes vs. Women in Video Games: Damsels in Distress part 3 from Feminist Frequency.
- From the Things-You-Would-Ask-Yourself-If-You-Thought-Of-It Department:What’s inside a space suit?. Check out these super-cool X-rays/li>
- Macrophotographer Nicky Bay shoots amazing images of the insect world.
- Käkättää and 11 other onomatopoeias-around-world.
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XKCD #1190 – Time: The Animated Film
from the page
XKCD #1190, aka “Time” was a project undertaken by Randall Munroe. It started on March 25th 2013, and ended on July 26th 2013, 4 months later. During that time Randall posted at least one new frame an hour, for a total of 3099 frames of animation. It was a fascinating experiment, and an interesting story about an event that has never been witnessed in recorded history. To read more about the project check out Randall’s blog post here.
I decided to attempt to animate the entirety into a ‘short’ video on YouTube. Many hours of work later, this was the result. It’s definitely not perfect, but I don’t have much practice or skill as a video editor yet, and in my limited time this was the best I could do.
Artwork is all by Randall Munroe
Music is all by Kevin MacLeod
Ambient Sounds were downloaded from Nature sounds and were also recorded by various contributors.
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Urban Zoom: Works by David Molander
Found at Storefront for Art and Architecture.
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“The Music Box” – Daniel Cloud Campos
Found at Lost at E Minor.
from the page
From the film “Welcome Home” This is a story of a kid, in search for a new apartment rental, who comes across a place that has actually chosen him. When a place speaks to you, you have no other choice but to play along with the tune.
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Featured image is by Chinese muralist DALeast.
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