It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down; surf’s up!
- These are the winners of the international 2013-2014 Canstruction competition. The mission of this unique charity committed to hunger relief, collaboration and design is “To feed and inspire the world – one can at a time.” Canstruction has helped raise over 25 million pounds of food since 1992.
- Einstein cited quantum entanglement, or “spooky actions at a distance,” as the thing that kept him from giving any credibility to quantum mechanics. However, physicists in the Netherlands reported that they were able to reliably teleport information between two quantum bits. Einstein was then reported to roll in his grave. {via Surly Amy}
- Clever but sadly true: Issac Cordal’s Berlin installation Politicians discussing global warming. {via Daniela}
- How to restore a Rothko by using light. {via Brian G./Jennifer Ouellette}
- A novel approach to citizen science: check out this sign crowdsourcing research on fire recovery. {via Beth}
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art web initiative is now providing access to 400,000 high-res digital images for non-commercial use. Yes, you read that correctly! {via Brian G and Beth}
- Someone mad a LEGO Hogwarts. Wowsers! {via Courtney}
- Because of her dermatographia, artist Ariana Page Russell uses her skin as a reactive canvas for her art. I’m sure we’ve posted about Russell in the past, but this is a new post with more images of her fascinating work. {via Brian G.}
- Tumblr find: A Photo a Day of Kermit in May and most of them are Kermit as the characters in our favorite movies. Very fun!
- Science vs. Art from Bird and Moon. {via Courtney}
- These calligraphy animals by illustrator Andrew Fox are minimally executed and maximally charming.
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Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown of AsapSCIENCE ask:
Can you trust your ears?
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Editor Tony Zhou explains:
How to do visual comedy and why Edgar Wright gets it right
Found at Thumbnails 5/29/2014 by Matt Fagerholm.
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If you love visual comedy, you gotta love Edgar Wright, one of the few filmmakers who is consistently finding humor through framing, camera movement, editing, goofy sound effects and music. This is an analysis and an appreciation of a director so awesome that Marvel had to fire him on a holiday.
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It only took Jathan Muhar a few seconds to give…
The best graduation speech ever.
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Featured image is a diorama by illustrator Marie Caudry for the app Plants by Tinybop.
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