“The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. 1845.
The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. 1844.
Dance of Development
I enjoyed the fruit fly embryonic development video from this post so much, I decided to animate it. Grow, little alien … grow like the wind!!!
Noelle Stevenson’s Guide to Blowing Up on Tumblr
Noelle Stevenson, aka gingerhaze, joined Tumblr to share her fan art — comics based on movies like X-Men: First Class and Lord of the Rings. In the summer of 2011, she started posting “The Broship of the Ring,” a modern interpretation of the LoTR characters as hipsters and fratboys, and everything kind of … exploded. Stevenson’s online following shot way up, and since then, she’s landed an internship at a comics publisher and has signed with a literary agent.
She’s also been offered a contract to publish in hard copy her original webcomic project, Nimona — the story of aspiring supervillain Lord Ballister Blackheart, who never seems to get anywhere with his evil plots. That is, until he takes on a new sidekick, Nimona, a shapeshifter with poor impulse control who likes to solve problems by blowing things up. Nimona recently won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Webcomic of the Year by Slate Magazine and the Center for Cartoon Studies. It was also named one of io9’s top ten Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012. We had a chance to talk to Stevenson about breaking out and Hulking out.How long have you been drawing?
I’ve been drawing pretty much as long as I can remember. It was a hobby of mine as a child, and I grew up and that was still what I wanted to do.
Noelle Stevenson’s Guide to Blowing Up on Tumblr
Noelle Stevenson, aka gingerhaze, joined Tumblr to share her fan art — comics based on movies like X-Men: First Class and Lord of the Rings. In the summer of 2011, she started posting “The Broship of the Ring,” a modern interpretation of the LoTR characters as hipsters and fratboys, and everything kind of … exploded. Stevenson’s online following shot way up, and since then, she’s landed an internship at a comics publisher and has signed with a literary agent.
She’s also been offered a contract to publish in hard copy her original webcomic project, Nimona — the story of aspiring supervillain Lord Ballister Blackheart, who never seems to get anywhere with his evil plots. That is, until he takes on a new sidekick, Nimona, a shapeshifter with poor impulse control who likes to solve problems by blowing things up. Nimona recently won the Cartoonist Studio Prize for Best Webcomic of the Year by Slate Magazine and the Center for Cartoon Studies. It was also named one of io9’s top ten Best New and Short Webcomics of 2012. We had a chance to talk to Stevenson about breaking out and Hulking out.How long have you been drawing?
I’ve been drawing pretty much as long as I can remember. It was a hobby of mine as a child, and I grew up and that was still what I wanted to do.
Ants follow Fermat’s principle of least time
Ants have long been known to choose the shortest of several routes to a food source, but what happens when the shortest route is not the fastest? This situation can occur, for example, when ants are forced to travel on two different surfaces, where they can walk faster on one surface than on the other. In a new study, scientists have found that ants behave the same way as light does when traveling through different media: both paths obey Fermat’s principle of least time, taking the fastest route rather than the most direct one. Besides revealing insight into ant communities, the findings could offer inspiration to researchers working on solving complex problems in robotics, logistics, and information technology.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-04-ants-fermat-principle.html#jCp
Ezra Miller is heading to the North Pole with Greenpeace to protest oil and gas development. “The Arctic is an epitomizing example of the kind of backward thinking that’s happening. Offshore drilling because there’s new, melted ocean – the idiocy of that particular idea is so baffling,” Miller shares in our Q&A.
Earlier this year, Chronicle Books and Tumblr collaborated on The Great Tumblr Book Search. There were 175 terrific book ideas pitched, and today’s Tumblr Tuesday features the winners!
Shit Rough Drafts
The grand-prize winner, by 22-year-old Creative Writing major Paul Laudiero, imagines early drafts of famous literary works and screenplays. The book is slated for publication in Spring 2014.The Awkward Phase
Awkwardness is inevitable, so let’s celebrate it.Activitorium by The Tangential
This proposed activity book for real-life adults will get you coloring, staging paper doll plays, and more.Twitter: The Comic
Original art illustrating borrowed text in four brilliant panels.For updates on what’s new, check the official New & Notable blog.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Official Trailer #1 (2013) - Logan Lerman Movie HD
In order to restore their dying safe haven, the son of Poseidon and his friends head into the Sea of Monsters to find the mythical Golden Fleece.
Someone had to do it.
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