Mad Quickies: Pretty Pitties, raptor trike, UV voodoo, Kahlo cookies and more!

Happy Weekend, everyone! I’m eating raw almonds and drinking diet grapefruit soda. I’m pretty sure I’m doing this snack thing wrong. But I’ll tell you what’s right- I’ve got a bunch of awesome Quickies! Enjoy!

• Flower Power, Pit Bulls of the Revolution is an exquisitely poignant photo series by Sophie Gamand who sought to portray this misunderstood group in a different light.
• Tel Aviv-based miniaturist, Shay Aaron created this series of teeny tiny food sculptures. Oh em gee, the Oreo cuff links!
• Sometimes information is depressingly funny… like anything involving Creationists. Like this: 6 Ways a Creationist Textbook Sabotaged Science. {via Critical Dragon}
• Sockeye salmon use magnetic fields to navigate and 14 other fish with amazing talents.
• i-Clue Design’s Lee Jinyoung devised a Silicone Tea Infuser Shaped Like a Human Skull.
• Modern Art desserts: From Mondrian Cake to Matisse Parfait.
• Possibly the world’s coolest bike is a homemade RAPTOR TRICYCLE.
• I want to go to there! A Trio of Dreamy Treehouses Linked by Bridges was designed and built by architect and environmentalist Peter Bahouth.
• Twitter feed of the week: awkwardly caption Renaissance paintings by WTF Renaissance. Probably nsfw.
• Flickr pool find: Arithmancy

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The Bad Astronomer is a major favorite of ours at the Lab and his blog is always fascinating. This is no exception: “The Face of Ultraviolet”.

Here’s the video.

This is what you look like in ultraviolet

{via Smashley}

from the page

We showed people what they looked like in ultraviolet, & wondered aloud if they wanted to put on some damn sunscreen already.

Music: ‘Summer in the City – Starcadian remix’ by Freedom Fry
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Star Wars Lightsaber Katana

{via @CriticalDragon1}

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Bonus: live music employing banjo, accordion, mandolin, stand-up bass — and some anvil for good measure.

Thunderstruck by Steve’n’Seagulls

{via Elizabeth H.}

Found here.

from the page
Finnish band called Steve’n’Seagulls plays AC/DC’s awesome song called Thunderstruck. Recorded by Jaakko Manninen Photography.

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Featured image is “Rex” fromt he series “Flower Power” by Sophie Gamand. Happily, Rex was adopted.

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