Mad Quickies: Pussy Riot, Textus, Feeding Hannibal and more!
It’s the Friday Quickies! Pencils down; surf’s up!
- Pussy Riot’s brave ‘Colbert Report’ interview makes us love them even more.
- An essay on museums and intellectual property and the case of AMNH and the pterosaur ripoffs. {via Rebecca}
- Federico Babina illustrated “Archiset”- a wonderfully clever series of retro posters depicting the interiors of classic films.
- Martin Wong was a Medici to Spray Paint and Graffiti Artists. {via Brian G.}
- This is an interesting piece on female car designers. {via Ryan S.}
- The photographer Seung Hoon Park weaves film to create an image from a collage-like tapestry. The series is entitled Textus.
- An anatomical heart necklace [of course], a galaxy scarf, a Belgian darts set [?!], a leather Batman backpack [?!?!], a spork multitool [?!?!?!], a Lelo Lily vibrator [finally, something normal] and so much more in boingboing’s Gifts for Lovers.
- Superior, poignant, take-your-breath-away images from the 2014 Sony World Photography Awards.
- Here’s something exquisitely designed: Tyler Stout’s Space Aged to Infinity: A 2014 Lunar Calendar.. It might even still be available for sale
- Blog find: Feeding Hannibal.
- Wired reports that “Science and art don’t intersect nearly as often as they should.” [Ummm, hello?] Here’s some serious eye candy from the Best Science and Engineering Visualizations of 2013.
- Tumblr find: The illustrator and map designer Michael Newhouse curates the delightfully quirky Reference Desk: the Library of Newhouse Design.
- Trip out. The original: Alice/Pogo. {via Katie}
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“Ciao, baby.”
{via Anne S.}
A Woman uses a GoDaddy Super Bowl commercial to quit her job to pursue puppeteering. [Dear GoDaddy- we want more commercials like this.]
from the page
Gwen Dean quit her job as a machine engineer in front of more than a hundred million people watching a football game! She said so long to working for someone else and started her dream business with help from GoDaddy. She registered a domain name, got a website and turned her dream into a real business. #LiveYourDream
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The super-talented Matt Rogers* crafted this kinetic typography.
Stephen Fry: On Language
{via Beth}
*This is the same Matt Rogers who designed a kinetic promo for George Hrab’s concert 21812.
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Featured image is Thai Palace by Seung Hoon Park. 2011, Digital C print.
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