“I think it should like, make a high contrast between the figure and the line. Cause I feel like. It’s like…”
An art student freaks out in the middle of class and smashes her painting after receiving a horrible critique. I feel like. She like totally made the right choice by storming out.
video via Da KAnDyMaNFU
Thanks Jonathan Bergeron!
Obscure Video Games is a Tumblr blog that collects pixel art and animated GIFs of obscure, unsuccessful, or long-forgotten video games. The blog’s owner also periodically takes questions from Tumblr users attempting to identify titles of games based on fragmented memories.
images via Obscure Video Games
via Boing Boing
IGN has released “Death Star Destroys Enterprise,” an amazing video by Mike Horn showing an epic battle between Star Wars and Star Trek spacecraft in San Francisco. Previously we wrote about Mike and his other great videos of sci-fi spacecraft fighting and flying around San Francisco.
via Geeks are Sexy
The 2013 Art of Science competition hosted by Princeton University features artwork created during the pursuit of scientific discovery. The sixth annual exhibition houses a wide variety of art from photography to computer generated diagrams created using intricate data sets, and more of the clever artwork can be viewed at the Art of Science Online Gallery.
The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. Both of these disciplines involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what is perceived suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.
These 44 extraordinary images are not art for art’s sake. Rather, they were produced during the course of scientific research. Entries were chosen for their aesthetic excellence as well as scientific or technical interest. We thank all those who submitted work to this year’s competition. We are inspired by the breadth of their creativity both in their scientific research and in the artistic fruits of that research.
images via Art of Science
via NewScientist, Gizmodo
Moore, Oklahoma resident Charles Gafford captured amazing up-close footage of the May 20th, 2013 tornado that struck the area by sticking his smartphone out the window of his shelter.
Charles Gafford and his backyard showing tornado damage.
image via Charles Gafford
via PetaPixel
Scientist and musician David Mackenzie created this interactive graph of word frequencies in They Might Be Giants lyrics. The graph is based on lyrics from 487 They Might Be Giants songs as found on the TMBW fan site (that’s a grand total of 80,375 words). As a comparison, each word on the graph also includes its frequency in printed English, as determined by Google Books data.
“Star Trek: The Middle School Musical” is a cute and geeky video by Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal of Rhett & Link that imagines the Star Trek films and TV shows as a middle school musical performance. It has everything from a tap-dancing Vulcan to a slow motion fight with a Gorn. “Star Trek: The Middle School Musical” is a segment featured on episode 4 of The Mythical Show, Rhett & Link’s great 30-minute comedy show.
Star Trek Into Darkness? No. Star Trek into middle school!
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In collaboration with JJKirby, artist Jon Bolerjack has redesigned characters from Marvel’s The Avengers as Storm, Clone, and Shock troopers from Star Wars.
images via Jon Bolerjack
via Ian Brooks
photo via nors27
“Fuente del Barco de Agua” (“Water Boat Fountain”) is a sculptural fountain in Valencia, Spain that uses streams of water to mimic the form of a traditional sailboat. There’s no information on the artist behind the design, but My Modern Metropolis reports that similar sculptures exist in Israel and Portugal.
photo by Jesus Solana
photo by Margolum Smargol
Slate interactives editor Chris Kirk created a very handy interactive guide for comparing the speeds of some of the most popular spaceships from science fiction television shows, films and the real world. You can select a destination (Alpha Centauri, Galactic Center, Andromeda Galaxy) and instantly view the visual race between each of the ships and then get specific results afterward.
It’s a little odd that a genre about science, the field of precision, can be so imprecise. The truth is that spaceships almost always fly at the speed of the plot. But, for those who refuse to accept that, this is a definitive guide to ship speeds, based on highly scientific computer simulations and highly unscientific speculation.
List of the spaceships:
Enterprise (Star Trek), Millennium Falcon (Star Wars), TARDIS (Doctor Who), Heart of Gold (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), Planet Express (Futurama), Jupiter 2 (Lost in Space), Serenity (Firefly), Galactica (Battlestar Galactica), Voyager 1 (NASA)
R. Crumb talks about LSD, the meaning of life, and his favorite books in an interview earlier this month with Jon Longhi of Last Gasp Books in San Francisco.
Minbox is a free file transfer service that allows users to share download links before the file has completed uploading. Once the file is finished uploading, Minbox will email the link to the intended recipient. Minbox has no storage or file size limits, though files expire after 30 days. For additional features like encryption, permanent storage, and the option to set files to “self destruct” after a certain amount of time, users can upgrade to Minbox Pro. The app is currently available to download for Mac.
via Pasquale D’Silva
In his series “Through My Eyes,” Kazakhstan-based photographer Timur Zhansultanov has been documenting his life for the past two years with photos taken from the perspective of his own eyes.
“Someone stands on the hose. Because fine…Becoming fine later this…I…I know how to read guys.” – Jack
Comedy rock duo Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D had fun while reporting the morning weather on One News, a division of the New Zealand television network’s TVNZ. Jack experienced technical difficulties while clicking his clicker and reading the teleprompter while Kyle humorously acted out what Jack was trying to say.
video via TehJayden
The latest episode of Bytesize Science explains how a common toothpaste ingredient, sodium lauryl sulfate, is believed to make orange juice taste bitter.
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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, featuring a foreword by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk and
afterword by Stuart Mangrum of the Billboard Liberation
Front and Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere.
