Super Smart People Animating With Science

Two things I love:  Animation and Science.  The two are actually very much alike…they are inquisitive, sometimes tedious and can reveal a lot of beauty in the every day.

Gaze now upon this fabulous video that describes the journey of some super smart IMB’ers who have created an adorable little animation using teensy teensy weensy little molecules (or atoms…I’m confused which) to animate a short story.   The other interesting side note, and the basis for the research, is making data storage even more tiny and accesible.  One of the guys mentions “Today we can carry one or two movies on our phone…with the development this technology, you could potentially store every movie ever made on your phone.”

-Lauren

For Lauren

Spotify spit up this little gem for me a while back. Wikipedia this song was written in 1930 and skinnin’ a mule just means cracking your whip while driving them on a wagon. Much less violent than I imagined. Besides being a badass yodeler, Dolly is from Tennessee, like our mom’s family. (Hi Ya’ll!). She has genius advice for all types of situations.  Lauren is Dolly’s number one fan of all time and this is for her.

Hovdig

My son got a new bike last week. While expounding the virtues of helmet wearing to him (as a child our mom used graphic descriptions involving melons and sidewalks, I was a little less eloquent) I realized I didn’t own a helmet. I bought the standard ugly helmet and am sworn to wear it, but I wish there was something cooler! Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin had the same thought yet they are genius enough to fix the problem. When I started watching the video I expected some kind of trick (I’m wary of all internet videos after this one) However, they’re chic, genius and prohibitively expensive. I can only hope that with time the production costs come down. I am also fantasizing about the awesome future fashion collabs-Phoebe Philo x Hovding anyone??

-Brooke

New Jams: Angel Olsen “Tiniest Seed”

Girl version of Roy Orbison? Yes, please!  I discovered Angel Olsen’s music about a month ago and instantly was reminded of one of my favorite singers, Roy Orbison.  The arrangements on her album “Half Way Home” are perfectly restrained, her voice is sweet and sad just as much as her lyrics.

Befitting to her music is this 16mm black and white film she helped create for the song “Tiniest Seed”.  It’s all done using a single roll of 16mm film using a technique where the same film roll is exposed multiple times.

Buy the album here

Learn more about the film here

-Lauren

Technology

Thanks Buzzfeed!