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Visual Sounds of the Amazon: Digital Lifeforms that Respond to Audio Recorded in the Amazon Rainforest | Colossal
Australian artist Andy Thomas (previously here and here) presents his first installment of Visual Sounds of the Amazon, a responsive artwork that alters its visual shape based on audio Thomas collected from the Amazon rainforest. The animation sequence is one that … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Art, Australian, comparison, creatives, Culture, Life, nature, rhythm, South America
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How To Live To 100, According To Science
By 2050, the UN estimates that as many as 3.2 million people will live to 100 compared to 316,000 in 2011. Also, a 2013 study from the University of Massachusetts found that 25 year olds today can … Source: How … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, comparison, Culture, food, Japan, Life, North America, science
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DIY Papercraft Light Shades of Aquatic Life by Vasili | Colossal
Taking inspiration from the Dutch seaside, Netherlands-based design studio VasiliLights produces both DIY and fully-assembled paper light shades in the form of aquatic life. The paper shades come in a variety of colors and sizes, you can see more in … Continue reading
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Tagged #lighting, animation, Art, creatives, Culture, Life, sculpture, Technology, The Netherlands
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Fun Typographic Metaphors Animated on a Vintage Typewriter by Greg Condon | Colossal
One of the first assignments in a beginning typography course is the creation of visual metaphors, where letterforms are somehow modified or manipulated to represent a word. In this ingenious short film by Greg Condon titled “Disillusionment of 10 Point … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Art, comparison, construction, creatives, Culture, Language, typography
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Learn Anything In Four Steps With The Feynman Technique | Later On
No author is provided, but this post has some good pointers: With the Feynman Technique, you learn by teaching someone else a topic in simple terms so you can quickly pinpoint the holes in your kno… Source: Learn Anything … Continue reading
Dizzying New Kaleidoscopic GIFs by Anna Taberko | Colossal
Illustrator and animator Anna Taberko (previously) continues to produce lovely kaleidoscopic animations that depict the blooming of flowers, the evolution of animals, and the flight of bees. Most of her pieces begin life as traditional hand-drawn cel animation before being … Continue reading
Mechanical Rock Band by Neil Mendoza
A rock band consisting of electromechanical instruments that makes music by throwing rocks through the air, slapping them and making them vibrate. Source: Mechanical Rock Band by Neil Mendoza
Silent Oceans: the effect of ocean acidification on marine sounds – Video Abstract — Ocean acidification
Research paper: Rossi T., Connell S. D. & Nagelkerken I., 2016. Silent oceans: ocean acidification impoverishes natural soundscapes by altering sound production of the world’s noisiest marine invertebrate. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1826). Article (subscription required). … Continue reading
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