MadPicLab Returns! LIKE A ZOMBIE!
Random Acts of Art: 2.18
The Perot Museum: An Oasis of Science
Slave Leo
MaKey MaKey Cat Photo Booth
Kitchen Lab: I play with my food
Overly-Honest Product Stickers
I’m Going Home and Taking My Ball ...
Good Design: San Diego Coalition of Reas...
Turning Rhythm into Tone
Mad Quickies 2.27
Mad Art Lab gets a shout-out on the Scientific American blog! {via Surly Amy} We can thank the Vatican’s fresco painters for a food-history find. {via Emily} Meet Jennifer Angus: her medium is insects. More awesome greek text processors: Bacon Ipsum and Samuel Lipsum ,using quotes from Samuel L. Jackson movies. {via BonnieBeth} The Distraught Cosmonaut is a haunting series of paintings by Je... »
Mad Pic Lab: Zombies edition
If you hadn’t heard, the Mad Pic Lab project is back and IN ACTION, MOFOS! Last week, we re-kicked off with Zombies! Because this project died months ago and NOW IT’S BACK FOR YOUR BRAINZ! Refresher: Every Tuesday afternoon, I will post a word. You have one week to get a picture to me with that week’s theme. There are no rules except that the pic has to be your own creation. It doesn’t... »
Random Acts of Art: 2.26 Women in Secularism 2
This weekend I completed some pendants that will be given as gifts to the speakers and staff at Women in Secularism 2 conference happening in Washington, DC May 17th-19th. I recreated their logo in ceramic which was a bit tedious and time consuming. I had to paint in all the details including a tiny dot of green in the eyes. I also inked in the crackle glaze to highlight the fissures that form ran... »
Lab Track: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Higgs Boson Blues
I got sorta giddy when I saw that Nick Cave had written a song about the Higgs Boson, and it’s about the delegitimizing of religion in the face of science to boot. But then it turns out to be more of a lament than anything (Who cares what the future brings?). While Cave has always been critical of religion in general, he is notoriously slippery and hard to pin down on the God question. He se... »
Coconuts: Paradise Lost
Hey, have you heard about coconuts? They’re delicious! Now they’re nutritious, too, right? Today I will share my journey from a tropical coconut-laden paradise to the thick undergrowth of a dangerous jungle filled with misinformation. I was aware of the fact that coconut was the new fad du jour; a few family members have gotten into coconut oil and coconut water, but I wasn’t really interested in ... »