Mad Quickies: kitty microbes, recipe tattoos, dystopian otters, Khal Aquaman and more

It’s the Monday Quickies and it’s smooth sailing. You know what that means. Grab yer favorite morning beverage; surf’s up!

• Gruesome? Awesome? I submit to you that this is both. Body of a Courtesan in Nine Stages: A 19th century study of decomposition by Kobayashi Eitaku in the 1870′s. {via Brian G.}
• When Will We Get LGBT Characters in Cartoons? Honestly, it’s way overdue. {via Critical Dragon 1177}
• Decorative gingivitis [you heard me] and six other deadliest fashion trends of all time.
• Going through Game of Thrones withdrawal? Well, you can always read the commentary at these favorite sites: Laura Stone’s recaps at Hey, Don’t Judge Me, commentary and the awesome “Particles” posts at Previously TV; and recaps at Vulture.
• I, for one, welcome our great Otter Overlords. Caleb Brown paints a world taken over by giant bugs and flying sharks.
• Sculptor Ben Young cuts sheets of glass into layered ocean waters.
• KITTY MICROBES fromArtologica.
• If you’ve been off the grid for a while, allow me to be the one to tell you that Jason Momoa is slated to play Aquaman. Say, is it hot in here or is it just me? {via Elizabeth H.}
• Taken on the last night of shooting on July 9, 1981, these are rarely seen photos from “Blade Runner”. {via Cinephilia & Beyond}
• Question: What can you make out of antelope horn, skin, gut and hair? Answer: you can make a lyre out of it.
• What causes Brazil’s ‘Meeting of the Waters’? by Becky Crew. This is what it looks like when the Solimões River meets the Rio Negro and it’s amazing!
• Test your wits! TENNIS or CHEESE. [With no thanks to tennis but rather a long relationship with cheese, I did reasonably well. Bonne chance!]
• Marina Cinciripini and Sarah Richiuso devised temporary tattoos that are recipes. Ma, perché? {via Mary B.}
• For no particular reason: GHOST CONES by Jon Carling.
• Instagram find: Earth Pix. {via @biblioteq_tress}

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All Creative Work is Derivative

from the page
Nina Paley: All Creative Work Is Derivative

“Filmmaker Nina Paley of Sita Sings The Blues fame comes a simple yet brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed case for the combinatorial nature of creativity.

Paley photographed archaeological artifacts from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and animated them to illustrate her point: All creativity builds upon something that existed before and every work of art is essentially a derivative work.”

An explanation of the why and how of this video can be found at All Creative Work is Derivative>.

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This gorgeous new game looks like a 1930s cartoon.

Cuphead

{via George Hrab}

from the page
E3 Trailer for CUPHEAD. Coming for XboxOne and Steam (PC) in 2015!

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Featured image is Rough Waters by Ben Young.

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