Mad Quickies 8.24

It’s the Friday Quickies! Surf’s up!

• Scientific American loves Surly Amy. Great article on our chief!
• Rosanne remembers: Phyllis Diller: comedian, pioneer, gin-drinker, atheist.
• Jesus Christ! Or a crayon sketch of a very hairy monkey in an ill-fitting tunic. Follow Fresco Jesus. {via Maria}
• Limited-edition playing cards hand-printed on used New York subway fare cards – Metrodeck. Purchase here.
• Leaping Tall Buildings imagines comic-book creators as the real superheroes.
• Foley nerds: toolkit for impact sounds.
• Carlburg Pottery makes beer growlers, some of them actually growling.

Lots more after the jump!

• Favorite image today: Albert Einstein in numbers.
• Miss Insomnia Tulip makes anatomical macaroons. Uhhh…yum?
• Unearthed: Cookie Monster’s cookie dough recipe.
• If your school were architecturally imaginative it would look like these.
• Goldberg variations.

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I’m not sure when we’re going to be over this man’s passing,
but he left us beautiful moments. Here’s one.
David Rakoff: The Invisible Made Visible

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Allison Schulnik in her studio

from the page
The queen of lush and juicy paint Allison Schulnik opened up her studio to Beautiful/Decay and Visual Creatures to give our readers insight into the world of sad hobo clowns and her painting and animation process. Allison discusses how her paintings inform her animations and vice versa, the long history of artists in her family, and how Los Angeles allows artists to have quiet time in the studio yet have a community.

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A stop-motion music video made from 15,000 stills
Dream Music: Part 2

Found at Colossal.

http://vimeo.com/47793390#

from the page
Dream Music: Part II is a musical voyage into the depths of the subconscious. This lyrical narrative reflects on the perception of time within dreams and waking life. Filmed on location in 2 states over the course of 6 months, we explored our new production technique of what we call ‘lyric-lapsing’, to achieve the surrealistic feeling of movement. We built upon the foundation of Part 1 with ambitious ideas that usually took around 6-8 hours of work for 3-4 seconds of footage. Our goal was to pioneer a new film genre by telling a story through art and music. Part 2 was made to transport the viewer from their own reality into a world of dreams and at the end, they awake to wonder how we were able to take them there. Each scene was born from the symbolic meaning of the lyrics and overall message of the film; Time is the illusion within the dream of life.

Credits and links at the page.

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Get Kraken!

{via Madfishmonger}

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Featured image is a still from the Allison Schulnik interview by Beautiful Decay.

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