Mad Quickies: paper art, female warriors, an imploding drum and more!

Welcome to the [traditional] working week, all. Here. I baked you some nice Quickies. Absolutely no cricket flour. Unless, of course, you order the last of these items.

• Artist Yulia Brodskaya creates illustrations via quilled paper sculptures.
• This literary map of London employs data from 250 novels. And it’s a typographical triumph.
• André the Giant had a cool technique to memorize his lines … and 18 other Inconceivable facts About The Princess Bride.
• In honor of American Ninja Warrior‘s Kacy Catanzaro, here are some of the most kickass female action scenes in cinema history.
• Holy fnürken! You will be amazed at just how much of ikea’s catalog is CG. {via Geo}
• Just because this is fascinating and I’m going to put this here as “performance art” … erm … I mean, “no-performance art” — The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. {via Kim}
• Pentagram’s Abbott Miller says that “Branding has become oppressive”. Dude, I am so on board [bored?] with this.
• Papercut By Parth Kothekar. The delicacy is particularly astounding. {via Kim}
• A wonderful collection of sonic semiotics. At Pop Chart Lab: A Visual Guide to Musical Notation.
• Retail find: Exo Protein Bar by Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz who believe insects are the protein of the future. Their products are made with cricket flour. Sewitz says, “[O]ur mission is to normalize the consumption of insects as a sustainable, healthy alternative food source. Our first product is a line of protein bars formulated by a 3 Michelin starred chef.”

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Gav and Dan are The Slow Mo Guys and they are responsible for this
Imploding Drum

Found at Laughing Squid.

from the page
Filmed at 2500fps with a Phantom Flex.

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Featured image is an excerpt of a map created by graphic artist Dex in collaboration with interior designer Anna Burles.

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