Mad Quickies: Astro Cosplay, Skytrail Studies, Neuroscience of Harry Potter, Wire Animals & More!
You guys, I am thisclose to starting a bonfire in my studio. It’s like eleventy hundred degrees below zero. Not really. But here’s something interesting: I’m in Pennsylvania and my friends are visiting Copenhagen and it’s TWENTY DEGREES WARMER there. However, a month ago they lived in Arizona so the weather math becomes an algebra problem right about here. Where was I? Oh right- The Quickies! Lace up and smooth skating!
- Oh my stars and little comets- GO HERE RIGHT NOW! A Visual History of Cosplaying Astronauts. {via Jennifer Ouelette}
- The Head of the Film/Animation/video Department at RISD, Dennis Hlynsky recorded studies of various birds and created these mesmerizing videos of their flight paths. Videos included. Although I’ve featured his flight of a small brown moth already, these are too beautiful not to share. Just as I was about to post, I see that videographer Paul Parker also maps skytrails.
- Artist Kendra Haste has a true gift of draughtsmanship and her chosen medium is painted galvanised wire atop steel armature. Witness her Lifelike Galvanized Wire Animal Sculptures. Extraordinary work.
- Maurice Sendak’s We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy is only one of a lovely list of some of the very best LGBT children’s books, all beautifully illustrated.
- Kylie Mangles of Freshly Squeez’d created this amazing anatomical cross-section Ralph Wiggum Cake. Baking and construction process photos included
- Here’s an odd list you might enjoy. 10 Modernist Houses in Scary Movies and, holy haunted Hitchcock, are they gore-geous. [spoilery]
- Here’s a thing I’ve been meaning to share with you. The Neuroscience Of “Harry Potter” or, what happens to your brain when you’re lost in a book.
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One of Dennis Hlynsky’s bird flight path videos:
Seagulls in Wildwood
https://vimeo.com/98976648
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This looks SO appealing right now. And these little guys are truly adorable.
Capybaras get a warm citrus spa treatment
Found here: Read more about Capybaras treating themselves to a relaxing spa day at a hot springs in Japan.
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Featured image is from the photos series “What do you hide?” by Argentinian photographer Romina Ressia.
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