Artist Ju Duoqi created an alluring collection of Chinese cabbage pin-up girls in her hilariously bizarre 2010 digital illustration series “The Fantasies Chinese Cabbage.”
Flat Design, with it’s simple visual approach, enabled the non-professional-art-director-me to produce some illustration work, so, this was my chance to give something back to the saga. I looked up online and apparently there isn’t any set of flat design/long shadow design Star Wars Icons.
"Mother" is a wordless black-and-white animated short by London-based designer Fabrice Le Nezet that features strange and surreal objects quietly drifting through their surroundings.
Half way between animation and motion design, Mother is an epic and poetic journey through a surreal world. It is a small tribute to modern architecture, isometric video games and sci-fi literature.
You simply think of four stags: suck, squeeze, bang, blow. It inhales a lot of air, then you really need to squeeze it down really far and make it really dense. Then comes the fun part: bang. Squirt some fuel into it and you ignite it. Then it makes that air really hot. This air pushes a turbine really fast.
Hemingway is a simple editing app by Adam Long and Ben Long that highlights common errors and suggests alternatives. For example, Hemingway highlights complex sentences that are too dense in red, adverbs in blue, and anything using the passive voice gets highlighted in green. The app was recently released as a desktop editor for both Mac and Windows.
"Inside Sun Noodle" by Eater is an examination of the history and operations of Sun Noodle, a Hawaiian company that produces noodles for many of the top ramen restaurants in the United States. Founded in 1981, the company has factories in the US that generate a total of 90,000 servings of ramen noodles each day. Sun Noodle was also the subject of the recent “How Ramen Noodles Are Made” video.
British psychology professor, author, and performer Richard Wiseman of Quirkology released episode 11 of his ongoing series, 10 Bets You Will Always Win. Wiseman shows how to drop playing cards and have them land on a napkin, how to draw an “i” with a dot on top, and more.
"How Gravity Falls" by YouTube host Edward Current is a handy explanation of how a warping of space and time causes gravitational attraction that utilizes a sheet of graph paper stretched using an attached crank. Current built the "Spacetime Stretcher" to offer an easy-to-follow explanation of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
For centuries, gravity was described as a sort of attraction between two objects. Then Albert Einstein described gravity as a warping of space and time.
Space Station 76 is an upcoming science-fiction space comedy film directed by television writer Jack Plotnick that’s set in a future with a decidedly 1970s vibe. The film, which stars Patrick Wilson and Liv Tyler, was first screened at the SXSW film festival in Austin back in March 2014, but no firm date has been set for wider release.
The Defender is a new personal safety product that features pepper spray, a siren, flashing lights, a number of smart features including a GPS triangulation, and a camera that snaps and transmits a photo via Bluetooth. Once captured, the information is sent to the Defender team via an iPhone or Android app, who in turn communicate with 911, while notifications are also sent out alerting your emergency contacts of the incident via text or e-mail. The product’s creators are currently seeking funding via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign.
Google has added a new Explore feature to their Google Maps apps on Android and iOS that allows users to discover places nearby. The feature, accessed via an “Explore” button in the bottom right corner, includes different suggestions based on the time of day — it might point out nearby breakfast places in the morning, for example. The feature also works when browsing maps of other locations so that users can plan out their day. The Android version of the app includes a “My Location” feature that accesses even more information.
Nosemouth is a hilarious Tumblr blog created by artist Phillip Pastore that is filled with digitally manipulated photos that imagine what celebrities would look like with an enlarged nose and no mouth. The entire ongoing collection of photos can be viewed online.
Bunch O Balloons is a hose adapter created by Texas-based Tinnus Enterprises that comes with 37 water balloons pre-attached so users can fill them all at once. Once the balloons are filled, shaking the adapter will seal them up thanks to small rubber bands on the end of each. The adapter, which is currently raising funds via a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, makes it possible for one person to fill 100 balloons in under a minute.
Here is what Ellis had to say about the deal with Gale and Universal Cable Productions:
“I’ve been strongly drawn to television over the last few years, and working with brilliant and determined collaborators like Gale and the UCP team, I’m delighted at the opportunity to add my voice to the new, novelistic TV form that’s evolved so dramatically.”
Socialist is an app by developers The BKRY and Awkward for organizing and sharing lists of things like restaurants, movies, music, and more. The app has also partnered with other services like Netflix to make lists useful beyond just being lists. Users can also invite each other to collaborate on shared lists. Socialist is currently available on iOS.
Artist Bovey Lee creates astonishingly intricate cut paper art out of Chinese rice paper and silk. She has a gallery on her site of beautiful cut paper works stretching back to 2005.