Some lovely illustrations by Katja Lang.
Some are available as limited edition prints in Lang's shop.
Many more on Lang's site.
Kelli Anderson, creator of This Book Is a Camera and This Book Is A Planetarium, has a new font-focused pop-up book on Kickstarter: Alphabet In Motion. I backed this when it launched but forgot to post about it here. Only 3 days left to back!
Here's videos of her previous books:
Kelli's books make fantastic gifts. I've given them multiple times.
Return to Hair Hill is a gorgeously animated film from French Canadian Daniel Gies.
Soo Burnell's got a hell of a Pool Picture Portfolio.
Plenty more on Burnell's site.
Utilizing a multi-layered turntable and altered pieces of vinyl, Graham Dunning creates Mechanical Techno.
You can see the process here:
How to print an image "using photosensitive material from plants under the influence of light," a/k/a an anthotype:
More from Edd Carr if you're interested in sustainable photography.
Prosthetics
Accessability
3D Printing
Medicine
The Human Brain
Danielle Clode
Body Augmentation
There
The Third Thumb
I thought this was truly fascinating: Dani Clode developed a "third thumb" that goes on the opposite side of your hand to your natural thumb. It is controlled remotely via your two big toes. It was tested on 600 people at an event and most were controlling it successfully in under one minute.Extraordinary. Here's two videos on it:
Clode's own site also has some fascinating non-third-thumb material.
Via Metafilter
This'll be everywhere soon, but as I type this, it's breaking news: The Onion has won the bankruptcy auction for insane conspiracy nut and all-around shitbird Alex Jones' Infowars. Jones is on my list of worst humans off all time and I'm delighted that it looks like The Onion plans to use Infowars to skewer him.
Here's a gift link to the NYTimes coverage:
And here's The Onion's own story on the story.
I'm a big fan of ButterDocs, the Google Docs replacement, but I do find Forever Notes interesting enough to share. It's not an app, but "a simple framework and scalable digital note-taking method for Apple Notes." Free.
A Soft Murmur offers "ambient sounds to wash away distraction." Use the sliders to remove the thunder, up the waves, and add some fire!
