Mad Quickies
Mad Quickies: a Maker’s Alphabet, Ray Harryhausen and more
You guys- I baked you some delicious Quickies. Enjoy!
- Maker’s Alphabet by Melody Quintana & Sneha Pai is an ABC book that celebrates creativity. Self-described as “A book that celebrates old and new ways of making. For kids from 1 to 100.”, this is a very special project slated to be kickstarted this week.
- Linda Holmes unpacks the gender and race implications of Mad Men’s Season 7, Episode 2 in Shirley, This Is The Dawn Of A New ‘Mad Men’. Ms. Holmes is the editor for NPR’s entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See. Follow her awesomeness on twitter at @nprmonkeysee.
- Breaking the Mold: Nature Inspires Tougher Ceramics. {via Surly Amy}
- Sorry, Comic Sans… this is still A Neue Font We Don’t Need.
- Marks of a Genius: Ray Harryhausen’s incredible creature drawings. {Found thanks to Thumbnails 4/21/14.}
- Seriously, people, Support the Morbid Anatomy museum!
- This is a little a lot… and worth every second! Strange Geographies: The Happy, Haunted Island of Poveglia. {via Beth}
- OMIGOD, YOU GUYS, THIS IS SO COOL! Clever Movie Easter Eggs You Might Have Missed.
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A French third-year computer graphics student, Francois Heysen created this evocative short.
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Featured image is one of the photos of the Tatio Geyser Field in Chile taken by Owen Perry.
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