Mad Quickies: The Birthday Edition. We are Three!

It’s the Weekend Quickies! And what’s more- it’s the weekend of Mad Art Lab’s Third Birthday! Choose Cake and let’s have at it, shall we?

• “I don’t want a relationship, I want a star ship” is just one of these awesome feminist shirts. {via Surly Amy}
• From Cake Wrecks: No Dungeons, Just Dragons. Check out the one that spits actual fire! {via SpaRkLecoRn}
• Etsy find: You can have the Blueprint of Han Solo’s blaster. Star for under fifteen bucks. {via @antiheroine}
• Excellent infographic: Every Best Actress Gown Since 1929. [embiggen for best viewing]
• Fabian Oefner shoots high-speed photos of combusting alcohol and the results look like X-rays of the human brain.
• Another Academy-Awards themed entry: Coffee artist Michael Breach created Best Picture Nominees As Coffee Art.
• Facebook find: The Art of Cosplay.
• Nyanicorn: a web game that is supposedly a second-grader’s paradise. I did not make it past level 1. Pffft. {via SpaRkLecoRn}
• Italian-born and Berlin-based artist Elena Capra took portraits of mundane household items to tell the story of a 40-year marriage. The photo book is entitled Libri di Famiglia.
• Here’s something sublimely beautiful At Petits Papiers: Origami clothes crafted from vintage maps.
• In the words of Carrie Fisher, if this weren’t true it would just be funny. Dating a Designer: 10 Things You Need to Know. {via both L-Dubbs and @twinarp}
• Here’s some great inspiration for a science-themed birthday party for kids. Professor Hugo’s 8th Birthday Party. Love the Guest lanyards and the sweet treats in the test tubes. Party printables here

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From “Dress to Kill”…

Eddie Izzard: “Cake or Death”

from a very informative wiki entry about “Dress to Kill” page

“One of Izzard’s most well-known routines was performed during Dress To Kill: a satirical depiction of Church of England fundamentalism, wherein Izzard explains how Church of England fundamentalism would be impossible because people would be shouting out “You must have tea and cake with the vicar or you DIE!” and “CAKE OR DEATH?!” The latter phrase has become so well known that it is now the name of an Eddie Izzard fansite.”

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Beautiful and imaginative, this stop-motion short visualizes sound. By Kijek/Adamski.
Noise

Found at Laughing Squid.

from the page
“Film inspired by the theoretic work of George Berkeley and basics of synesthetic perception. It’s a game of imagination provoked by sound. Individual sounds penetrating into the apartment of the main character relieved of their visual designates evoke images distant from its origins. Now full film is online.”

Watch at Vimeo for more credits and kudos.

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Images are by the super-talented cake artist Fernanda Abarca. The featured image is Toothless from How to Train Your Dragon. The image on this page is Jack Frost.

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