Mad Quickies 8.22
- Alighiero Boetti colored outside the lines. Here’s Boetti at MOMA.
- Carly Waito paints gems and crystals. Astounding light rendering.
- Alphabet-inspired architecture.
- No-o-o-o! The high-speed camera faces extinction.
- Snake Oil – fun video from LoadingReadyRun. {via Ryan}
- Word nerds: Seeing Cerise: Defining colors in Webster’s Third. {via @StanCarey}
- Here’s something cheery. Architect and theorist Mas Yendo visualized machines for living in the end times.
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- High caliber expression.
- LETTER PLAYGROUND!
- Fabian Gonzalez created: Superheroes as flags and a Star Wars alphabet.
- Jot Touch is the first Bluetooth pressure-sensitive precision stylus for iPad. More info.
- Image of the day: Solar flower in Buenos Aires.
- Design nerds: Thirteen ways of looking at a typeface.
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We’re NASA and we know it.
{via Anne S.}
This is how I rove.
Hot.
from the page
CREDITS:
Performed by David Hudson [http://twitter.com/dubhud]
Executive Producer: Alexander JL Theoharis [http://twitter.com/Satire]
Director: Forest Gibson [http://twitter.com/ForestGibson]
Editors: Cinesaurus [http://twitter.com/cinesaurus], Steven Hudson [http://twitter.com/HudsonFilm] & David Hudson [http://twitter.com/DubHud]
Written by Rob Whitehead [http://twitter.com/RobCWhitehead]
Prop Designer: Christopher Parker [http://twitter.com/chrstphrprkr]
Costumer: Jared Cheshier [http://twitter.com/JaredMonkey]
Camera Operator: Forest Gibson, Steven Hudson, Jon Sim
Cast: Steven Hudson, Tara Theoharis [http://twitter.com/geekyhostess], Zac Cohn [http://twitter.com/zaccohn], Danielle Sparks [http://twitter.com/dannysparky], Kevin Lane [http://twitter.com/_kevin_lane_], Monica Houston, Anne Ketola, Tim Uomoto [http://twitter.com/FRockClothing], Brendan Uomoto, Alexander JL Theoharis
Promotional Support: Zac Cohn and Tara Theoharis
Special Thanks to Anne Ketola for all the awesome NASA gear, and David Zimmermann for video equipment!
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We love Vi Hart!
Doodling in Math Class
from the page
Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, cardioids, connect the dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.
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Featured image is an excerpt of Mappa by Alighiero Boetti.
1989-94. Embroidery on fabric. 100 x 231 1/2″ (254 x 588 cm). Collection Giordano Boetti, Rome
©2012 Estate of Alighiero Boetti/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome
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A random-blogger comment re the crystal paintings:
I’m 99% sure that they’re just referring to the usual new-age woo, but the comment set me to wondering: Are there any stones/minerals (in the usual sense of the word) that actually have healing properties?
There’s lithium, which can aid with certain neurological issues — but I think that’s more accurately a metal, rather than a mineral or a stone.
Aluminum crystals are definitely minerals, but “antiperspirant” doesn’t really count as healing.
Is there anything else?
If you have enough gold, you can heal yourself of all sorts of shit.
Wait, crap, we’re talking about crystals. Does the joke still work with diamonds? Let’s go with diamonds.
Well, minerals in general, which includes things that aren’t normally considered crystals. But diamonds certainly counts.
Actually, how about iodide salts? Those are minerals (and crystals, I think) and they definitely have medicinal purposes.