I was reminded of this little masterpiece today. All the characters are made of wood and animated frame by frame.
Two Aussies have decided to share poetry with the world. Not their own poetry, just poetry they like.
The poems are presented beautifully and they provide links to purchase the books the poems are from.
Simple. Words Like This.
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.
Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.
The quote's from Riley Walz's IMG_001.
Walz made a bot that crawled Youtube in search of these videos and found five million of them. You can watch them, in seemingly random order, at IMG_001.
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.
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