It’s the Friday Quickies! Now, absolutely LaBeouf-free! Pencils down; surf’s up!
- Composer Laurie Spiegel, “Harmonices Mundi”, Golden Record, Voyager and The Interstellar Contract. [includes sound]
- Randall Munroe has a new installment of the brilliant XKCD “What If?” series called Paint the Earth, where he answers a fan’s question—”Has Humanity Produced Enough Paint To Cover All the Land on Earth?”— and explores the Fermi estimation.
- This might be the most beautifully creepy creative thing you see all week. Aganetha Dyck enlists partners with bees to create sculptures wrapped in honeycomb. Includes the awesome ideo, “Guest Workers.” {via Brian G.}
- The Lab’s own Ryan/Slave Leo is top o’ the list in Boing Boing’s February 16th This Day in Blogging History. We are so proud!
- Swiss Anderson is a series of minimalist Modernist interpretations of the films of Wes Anderson by @orangeandpark {ht @mattzollerseitz}.
- From The Art of Science: Mike Tyka Folds Proteins in Copper.
- Dutch designer Joris Laarman and software company Autodesk have devised an incredible new technique for 3-D printing metal in midair.
- Apparently Dubya is trying his hand at art by… painting skulls. It’s reported that he told his art instructor: “There’s a Rembrandt trapped in this body. Your job is to find it.” {via Katie}
- From Street Anatomy: the gorgeous Hybrid Medical Animation’s X-Ray Body in Yoga Motion. [include a mesmerizing video]
- Pinterest find: Luis Ramirez’s Gabinete de curiosidades.
- Each month, graphic designer Sam Smith creates a custom poster for The Dissolve
and writes about the film and his inspiration for the design. This is exploration of the film Her and a very clever poster.
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My buddy @treelobsters sent this to me and wrote: “Apparently Marc Almond (from Soft Cell) found the youtube clip of Tainted Love played on disc drives, and decided to add vocals.”
Tainted Love played by Floppy Disc Drives – now with vocals!
from Almond’s YouTube channel!
http://youtu.be/QByS2UdrTt8
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Pebbling a Chessboard
Featuring Zvezdelina Stankova – Professor of Mathematics at Mills College,
Director of Berkeley Math Circle, UC Berkeley
{via @twinarp}
from the page
Spreading clones across a chessboard and escaping “prison” – commonly known as pebbling a chessboard.
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How to make a paper airplane fly in an endless loop
from the page
The principal behind this video is called dynamic soaring.
Dynamic soaring is a flying technique used to gain energy by repeatedly crossing the boundary between air masses of significantly different velocity. Such zones of high wind gradient are generally found close to obstacles and close to the surface, so the technique is mainly of use to birds and operators of radio-controlled gliders, but glider pilots have occasionally been able to soar dynamically in meteorological wind shears at higher altitudes. The highest speeds reported are by radio controlled gliders at over 498 mph 801 km/h.
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For no reason whatsoever, here’s a bonus mashup that is so seemlessly constructed:
Brian Williams Raps “Rapper’s Delight”
from The Tonight Show’s YouTube channel
/’NBC Nightly News managing editor and anchor Brian Williams raps The Sugar Hill Gang’s classic “Rapper’s Delight” — and, yes, he brought two friends along./’
http://youtu.be/-YCeIgt7hMs
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Featured images are by Aganetha Dyk.
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