“Inception” Door - Armin Blasbichler
These are framed slides of Pantone swatches! More from the artist here.
PSA of the Day: According to the Best Friends Animal Society, more than 80 percent of pet owners support spaying or neutering their furry friends. But apparently, pet owners can’t seem to remember exactly when their animals should be sterilized (at 4 months old).
Enter the Fix at Four campaign, a series of clever PSAs that aims to reduce the number of accidental pets, and the best of which makes it seem as if a freaked-out father is trying to keep a bunch of horny neighborhood boys from impregnating his tween-age daughter.
“We purposely made them lighter,” says Bill Oakley, of TM Advertising, which helped design the spots. “When I see those Sarah McLachlan commercials, I turn them off. I can’t even watch them.”
[adweek]
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are, passed away today at 83. Pictured above are some frames from another classic of Sendaks, In the Night Kitchen.
this one is my favorite.
Breakfast tomorrow will be morning cake.
‘Three Point Landing’, A Supercut of the Best Action Movie Cliché Ever
Duncan Robson, an animator based in San Francisco, premiered his latest supercut at ROFLCon, a conference about internet culture, at MIT last weekend. Robson was speaking on a panel dedicated to supercuts, a term for thematic montages of found footage coined by Andy Baio of Waxy.org, who moderated the panel. Baio collects supercuts at supercut.org, and Robson’s Three Point Landing marks the 400th upload to the site. Make sure to crank the soundtrack, composed by Joel Robson.
Spaceboy meets the Biscuit Brothers. One of my favorite moments from the KLRU birthday party on 4/29
(via Instagram)
Never-Before-Seen Photos From the Early Days of Space Exploration
The Gemini astronauts also took some of the most memorable photos in NASA history. You’d think we would have seen them all by now. But with Nasa’s help and funding, a team of researchers at Arizona State University led by lunar scientist Mark Robinson has retrieved from the archives dozens of outtakes that never made it into wide circulation.
Photos: NASA
Ed note: Check out our friends at Air & Space for more stunning photos from the Gemini mission.
Best Pledge Drive video I’ve seen this Pledge Drive. (via WBEZ) [Any others you’ve seen that are funny?]
OMG!!!
Standard Procedure. (CU Independent/Andy Duann)
internets: please make this a meme.
This Austin company wants to use robots to drill into icy moons with remote fiber-optic lasers. COOL.
And then you see your friend all up on the Wilco taping, and they’re just like
Happy birthday to Willem de Kooning who turns 108 today. In honour of the amazing artist, here are some of his iconic artworks.