Ahoy, maties! Time for your Quickies diversion. Batten your hatches because surf’s up!
- Information is Beautiful sez that these are the top 500 passwords. Is yours here? The data viz is interactive.
- French artist Abdelkader Benchamma and NYU astrophysicist Maryam Modjaz collaborated on identifying and visualizing “dark matter” in a mixed media installation on view at The Drawing Center in Manhattan for the next 12 months. {via Brian G.}
- A new online magazine, the innovative “PRN” is an art and health publication for nurses. {via Surly Amy}
- LA tattoo artist Dr. Woo creates astonishingly delicate tattoos of dots, lines and geometric patterns. Is it just me or does it remind you, too, of Brian George’s work?
- If Silicon Valley on HBO happens to be a favorite of yours, you might be interested to know that Pied Piper is actually a site and it’s genius.
- Watch these DIY-ers send a donut to the edge of space in a weather balloon. Stratolys of Sweden is responsible for this awesomeness. {via Surly Amy}
- Apparently no one at Middle Earth Organics noticed what this woman was staring at when they chose her for their sauce label. Art historians everywhere are snorting in derision in the pasta aisle. {via Smashley}
- In this week’s equal-parts thorough and hilarious Game of Thrones recap at “Hey, Don’t Judge Me”: it’s 5.3 – High Sparrow. If you visit and leave a comment, please remember that this site is Unsullied. No book spoilers, please and thanks!
- The hybrid utensil knife/fork/spoon or “Knork” was also an important wartime medical invention.
- BIGFOOT BUNDT CAKE! Mmmmmm. Bigfoot. {via Emily F.}
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What Is Evil? – 8-Bit Philosophy
{via Critical Dragon1177
from the page
Written by: Matt Reichle
Created & Directed by: Jared Bauer
Narrator: Nathan Lowe
Animation Producer: MB X. McClain
Original Music & Sound by: David Krystal (http://www.davidkrystalmusic.com)
Academic Consultant: Mia Wood
Producer & Additional Artwork by: Jacob S. Salamon
© 2015 Wisecrack, Inc.
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And now for…
Movie Themes played on Beer Bottles
{via Bonnie Beth}
from the page
This video is a medley of our favourite movie themes! For this one we collaborated with Budapest Art Orchestra in Hungary where we recorded the orchestral parts and shot some of the video. If you watch closely you see one of us, Johannes, is actually conducting the orchestra. 🙂 Then we recorded the bottles (and more video) in our own studio in Copenhagen when we got back.
Nerd talk:
Music: The orchestral part was recorded on a SSL in Hungary and the bottle music is recorded with an Apogee Quartet Audio Interface and miked with some Neumann km184’s and some Sm57’s for the Terminator trash-percussion. The trailer voice is miked with a Neumann U87.
Graphics: We did everything ourselves including the 20th Century Fox animation in the beginning (using Blender and the Fox model made by Yoshi Twilight / MarioDash2000 (aka IcePony64 on DeviantArt)).
List of themes:
00:34 – 20th Century Fox Theme
00:55 – Hobbit Theme (LoTR)
01:17 – Terminator 2
02:08 – Game of Thrones
02:26 – Pirates of the Caribbean
02:54 – Harry Potter
03:00 – Empire March (Star Wars)
03:22 – Jurassic Park
03:40 – Gremlins
03:53 – Indiana Jones
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Featured image is courtesy of Dr. Woo.
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Re Top 500 Passwords:
A fascinating list, especially with the categorization added. But it drives me to distraction that the rather popular password “trustno1” is categorized as “rebellious/rude” and not as “nerdy/pop”!