Mad Quickies: King speech is unearthed; Gates funds art for vax; Herzog gives advice; Onomatopoeia is chocolate and More!
It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. And I have a little treat for you — first in the list here.
- “It’s a speech of importance that deserves to be released on a day of importance,” said archivist Derek Bolin. He’s referring to the long-lost audio of Martin Luther King Jr. speech found in UCLA storage room.
- Bill Gates is commissioning art to remind people why vaccines are important. What a fantastic idea! Really, I think Gates should just continue to focus on philanthropy. {via Surly Amy}
- Economists are teaming up with tv producers to use popular tv soap operas to create social change in the developing world. This is a great topic for discussion: Fighting Poverty and HIV With Soap Operas. {via Jamie B.}
- Actually, here’s another great topic for discussion: The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur. {via Charles P.}
- While in Antarctica, photographer Alex Cornell had the chance to photograph the bottom of an iceberg. And these are the gorgeous results. {via Kim R.}
- In case you were wondering, this is what happens when lava meets the sea.
- Oki Sato of the studio nendo designed this sets of confections called Chocolatexture. Not only are these beauties, but they are shaped to represent onomatopoeic Japanese words for textures.
- “#9. Carry bolt cutters everywhere.” From Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin comes this excerpt [which is awesome] of Herzog’s 24 pieces of advice for filmmaking and life.
- Retail find: The only recipes in this journal would be the ones you write yourself. To Serve Man.
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Fibonacci Zoetrope Sculptures
{via Brian G.}
from the page
These are 3-D printed sculptures designed to animate when spun under a strobe light. The placement of the appendages is determined by the same method nature uses in pinecones and sunflowers. The rotation speed is synchronized to the strobe so that one flash occurs every time the sculpture turns 137.5º—the golden angle. If you count the number of spirals on any of these sculptures you will find that they are always Fibonacci numbers.
For this video, rather than using a strobe, the camera was set to a very short shutter speed (1/4000 sec) in order to freeze the spinning sculpture.
John Edmark is an inventor/designer/artist. He teaches design at Stanford University.
Cinematography and editing by Charlie Nordstrom
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Featured image is “Flowers—The Beauty of Vaccines” by Vik Muniz. From the page: At first it looks like a textured painting or a fabric print. But look closer and there emerge the tiny cells that create this image. The artist writes: “The artwork is a microscopic pattern of liver cells infected with a smallpox vaccine virus.” © 2014
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