Mad Quickies: Augie the adventurer, dinosaur porn, LEGO female scientists and more!

It’s the Weekend Quickies! To-do lists down; surf’s up!

• Happy belated birthdays go out to Flying Trilobite and Artologica! The world is a better and more beautiful place thanks to you two!
• Augie and the Green Knight: A Children’s Adventure Book by SMBC’s Zachary Weiner is an adventure story about a scientifically precocious young girl in a world of fantasy. The illustrative style is definitely homage to the storybooks of old. Absolutely gorgeous. And it looks like it’s going to be kickstarted!
• Another fantastically worthy Kickstarter: Born With Curiosity: The Grace Hopper Documentary. “An intimate look at computer pioneer and US Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper (AKA Amazing Grace) and the impact she had on history of computer programming.” {via Beth}
• So this happened: Chobani Issues Non-Apology For Ridiculous Anti-Science Campaign.
• You, too, can crochet your own tiny Wolverine. {via @pajiba}
• Astonishingly cut-paper illustrations by London-based artist Rob Ryan.
• It’s about darn time! LEGO to Launch Female Scientist Minifigure Collection .
• What’s that you say? Meta dinosaur porn? Well, that would be “T. rex skeleton casts in a mating position, looking at a picture of two T. rex having sex. See what I mean here: This Is What Dinosaurs Having Sex Looked Like. Want more? Read an excerpt from Brian Switek’s “My Beloved Brontosaurus” here. {via Daniela}
• Tremendous story about that Sasquatch of cartooning: how Bill Watterson returned to the comics page.
• “Keep your pet crated” and 11 other things we learned about travel from Game of Thrones. {via Elizabeth H.}
• Here’s your new favorite twitter account — @SavedYouAClick: “Don’t click on that. I already did. Saving you from clickbait and adding context since 2014.” Tweets by @jakebeckman.
• New-Zealand artist Henry Hargreaves has worked with the stylist Caitlin Levin and the graphic designer Sarit Melmed for the series “Food Maps”. These are wonderful! {via Elizabeth H.}
• Pinterest find: Matthew Carlson’s Diagramatic.

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Wayne the Stegosaurus: A Motionpoems Animated Short

http://vimeo.com/96594572

from the page
The Mill artists adapted the children’s poem “Wayne the Stegosaurus” by Kenn Nesbitt into a delightful animated film for the 5th Season of Motionpoems, a non-profit bringing poets and filmmakers together to create short films. More about Motionpoems.

Credits:
Co-Directors: Aran Quinn, Jeff Dates
3D Lead Aritsts: Rob Petrie, Jeff Dates
Producer: Jason Bartnett
EP: Danielle Amaral

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Featured image is from the project “Augie and the Green Knigh” by Zach Weiner.

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