It’s the Friday Quickies – Surf’s up!
- Alex Konahin uses a dip pen to create insanely detailed anatomical drawings.
- Postdoc research fellow, Alex Parker collaged Starry Night from Hubble images. Stunning!
- The saga continues at treelobsters with #409 Vitriol On Demand and #410 Loose Change.
- Best headline ever: Buddhist ‘Iron Man’ found by Nazis is from space. {via madfishmonger}
- The Lab’s Ryan Consell co-wrote Heroes of Pinnacle City. Download here.
- New from Pop Chart Lab: 1. Plan your beer-cation with this seven-foot poster the thousand breweries of Europe. 2. Face front, True Believers, for this 18″ x 24″ Illustrious Omnibus of Superpowers #2.
Jump for more books, cupcakes, two artistic pioneers,
pirate metal and a dancing Deadpool. You heard me.
- David Reeves makes paper-cut action silhouettes.
- The 256-page Elegantissima features the career of design legend Louise Fili.
- Anatomy of a cover: Ecko Rising. Amazing 15’s Martin Stiff breaks it down for you.
- At SFAM: Day of Atonement. {via Steve D.}
- Super Mario Bros. cupcakes.
- Are ya’ feelin’ lucky? Well, are ya’?! Then enter this CUPCAKE CONTEST! {via Steve D.}
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Tom Shannon: The painter and the pendulum
from the page
TED Talks TED visits Tom Shannon in his Manhattan studio for an intimate look at his science-inspired art. An eye-opening, personal conversation with John Hockenberry reveals how nature’s forces — and the onset of Parkinson’s tremors — interact in his life and craft.
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SFX pioneer and “Dynamation” inventor Ray Harryhausen made the impossible possible.
Here’s a fascinating talk from 1974, complete with movie clips and footage models and sketches:
Ray Harryhausen interview
http://youtu.be/6-gvn0EoPXQ
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And in the tradition of Friday Quickies madness,
we bring you… pirate metal.
ALESTORM – Shipwrecked
{via Ryan}
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Spreading the love…
Deadpool. Gangnam Style
{via Emily}
http://youtu.be/xo-tWlETq8w
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Featured image is an excerpt from Mexican Skull by Alex Konahin.
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