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Kickstarting Scary Godmother fashion dolls
I reviewed the wonderful, spooky kids' graphic novel Scary Godmother in 2010, and now I'm delighted to plug this kickstarter to fund a set of fully articulated dolls based on the series, launched by...
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Mind-bending animated GIF illusions
David "Davidope" Szakaly is a talented Hungarian animator who specializes in trippy, freaky GIFs that pulse and twist and melt your brain. (more…)
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Kinetic sculptures made from popsicle sticks
Joyce Lin, a design student at RISD, has produced a wonderful set of kinetic sculptures made from popsicle sticks and other media, produced in spare time during the semester. They're incredibly fun to...
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Paul Krugman, Economics Fighter
I'm too dumb to understand what the article is about, but Walter Newton's Street Fighter-style animations for "Paul Krugman Battles The Austerians" are fabulous.
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“Wire Cutters,” a wonderful short film on the rough lives of off-world robot...
“A chance encounter proves fateful for 2 robots mining on a desolate planet.” (more…)
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Loadingicon: trippy looping gif animations to distract and delight
Loadingicons should loop, use a constrained color palette, and be fun enough to look at that they could distract a user while a computer or network churns away in the background. (more…)
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Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism
In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather...
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Animation of every Olympic 100m dash winner racing one another
Since 1896, the 100m dash remains the best thing at Olympic track & field apart from the weapons-throwing events. Usain Bolt dominates now, but would he have dominated then? Yes, of course he...
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Weird laws from around the world
(NSFW language) Funny: In Florida, it's unlawful to have sex with a porcupine. Sad: In Russia, it's illegal to tell minors that gay people exist. (Sam O'Nella)
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Trip out on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" concert screen projections
When Pink Floyd took the stage on their mid-1970s "Dark Side of the Moon" tour, they performed in front of a stunning video cut-up created by British animator Ian Emes. Above are screen projections...
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Russian computer animated cat from 1968
In 1968, Russian computer scientist Nikolai Nikolaevich Konstantinov and his colleagues at Moscow University created this computer animation of a cat using their Big Electronic Counting Machine...
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The gorgeous, surreal GIFs of Adam Pizurny
Adam Pizurny's Tumblr is an endless font of stupendous and surreal GIFs. (more…)
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ASCII cinema: animated text-only embeds
Ascii Cinema is a purely text-based way to record and view, well, text. Whether it's terminal sessions or gorgeous ASCII animations such as those created by MapSCII, this means you get crisp,...
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Incredible anti-drug PSA from cartoon kings Hanna-Barbera and Art Babbitt
In the 1970s, legendary Disney animator Art Babbitt, creator of Goofy, worked at Hanna-Barbera directing the studio's commercial division. His anti-drug PSA above, circa 1970, is a masterpiece of...
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Watch: The Magic of Oz, the "worst cartoon ever"?
The Magic of Oz, most likely from the early 1960s, is sometimes referred to as "the worst cartoon ever." I think that is hyperbolic but I appreciate the sentiment. Animation historian Jerry Beck had...
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Mesmerizing animations of 1960s science book op art covers
In the 1960s, book designers gave many science and psychology paperbacks glorious avant-garde and op art covers. Henning M. Lederer just released his second collection of animations of these fine book...
View ArticleWatch: "Horse destroys the universe"
Cyriak Harris is writing a novel titled "Horse Destroys the Universe." Cyriak has been creating strange animated GIFs and videos for more than a decade so he made a promo animation for his...
View ArticleMTV reviving Daria and Aeon Flux
MTV is reviving two of the greatest shows to ever appear on the channel: Daria and Aeon Flux. The latter will be a live action reboot. Daria, a spin-off from Beavis and Butt-head, was a brilliant black...
View ArticleWhy Edgar Allan Poe's work is still so damn good and creepy
Edgar Allan Poe scholar Scott Peeples explains the black magic of Poe's work nearly 170 years after he died. From TED-Ed: The prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade. A raven who refuses...
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Bend your spacetime continuum with these far out black-and-white GIFs
Applied mathematics/computer science student Etienne Jacob makes mesmerizing black-and-white animated GIFs using Processing, "a flexible software sketchbook and a language for learning how to code...
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