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figment of your imagination.
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FaceMashups is a video project by someone named Chase who blends together two celebrities into a surreal amalgam of horror, beauty, and celebrity. Above, Natalie Portman blended with Will Ferrell. Co.Create interviewed Chase who came up with the idea as a way to teach himself Adobe After Effects. "Face Mashups' creator explains how he's literally changing the face of celebrity"
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Pandaroos, Taranturaptors and Cuttlephants, Oh My!
A while back, on Twitter, a group of very creative and moderately deranged biology fans spent the day conjuring up sometimes adorable and often terrifying animal hybrids that they wish existed. While they may never exist in the flesh, they can now exist in our imaginations thanks to some talented science illustrators.
When creating head-scratchers like the pterodactwhale, there’s not a lot of biology to fall back on as a reference. But the panda/kangaroo hybrid is informed by good anatomy, posture and habitat. That artist didn’t jump to too many bambloosions (see what I did there?)
Check out the full gallery at Wired Science, you and everyone you share it with will be glad you did.
Oh, and that one up top? It’s a stomatopetrel: equal parts mantis shrimp and seabird. Yep.
(images above by JL Hirten, Meghan Rock, Alex Babakitis, and Maayan Harel)
“One of my favourite Steve Jobs stories was the time the engineers working on the iPod brought their finished prototype to him in his office. He said it was too big, they needed to make it smaller. They said it was as small as they could make it, it couldn’t be made any smaller. So he took the prototype over to his aquarium and dropped it in. The iPod sank to the bottom, and as it did, tiny little bubbles came out. ‘See those bubbles,’ he asked. ‘They’re air inside the iPod. Make it smaller.’
“Another story about Steve Jobs was when they brought the prototype for the iPad 2 to his office. The engineers told him it was faster than the first iPad. He took it over to his aquarium and dropped it in. ‘Look how slowly it sank,’ he told them. ‘Make it faster.’
“One time a newly hired intern had been sent out to get Steve a sandwich. When she brought it to him, he looked at it. ‘I thought I ordered the beef on rye,’ he asked. She told him it was indeed beef on rye. He took it over to his fish tank and dropped it in. ‘Does that look like beef on rye?’
“He was always dropping things in that fish tank. We couldn’t stop him. We told him he had to stop, he wouldn’t listen. It was full of stuff that shouldn’t be in an aquarium.
“The fish had all died years ago. One had been crushed under an early generation iMac. The others were all poisoned. He didn’t care.
“It got to the point where there was no room for anything in the fish tank. When we emptied it after he died, we found a body in there. We never found out who it was.”
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