Illustration/Science: Rube Goldberg
Until today I had never heard of Rube Goldberg. I had seen some of his comic illustrations but certainly never heard of the concept of "a Rube Goldberg machine".
Read about him and the machines here at Wikipedia and visit "the Official Rube Goldberg Web Site". Below you can watch a couple of videos of Rube Goldberg machines (via Milk and Cookies).
If you feel inspired maybe you'd like to play this game.
Art?: Little people and food
These photos are pretty funny and well-made. Take a look.
(Orignial site for the pictures)
A great combo for Prof Zeno Schinkenmann
Art: Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
& more (From The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Science: La Science Amusante
"La Science Amusante - 100 Nouvelles Experiences by Tom Tit (Arthur Good) with illustrations by Poyet was first published in the french magazine L'Illustration and later released in 3 sections between 1890 and 1893."
Quote from BibliOdyssey
Via BibliOdyssey and All About Nothing
Music blog: Silver Phial
There's a great new music blog out there and it's called SILVER PHIAL. Right now there's a lot of rare Beach Boys on the menu but also some Pink Floyd, The Byrds, George Harrison, Gene Clark etc. Note that some links has gone bad but that Silver Phial promises to update them all and upload them to RapidShare. Check it out!
Via Let's Make It
Illustration: Old Children's Books
Do yourself a favor and brows through Eric Sturdevant's photosets on Flickr. They are great. Start with this one: Old Children's Books. Also visit his blog Fun All Around.
Via mod*mom
Animation: Professor Balthazar
The Croatian (Yugoslavian) Professor Balthazar was definitely one of my favorite cartoons as a child in the 70s. He was a kind scientist/inventor who solved every problem by walking around and around and around thinking and then... pling!! As soon as he had thought up the solution he rushed to his big machine added the right ingredients. The machine processed and processed and out came a few drops into his tube - the magic potion.
Listen to the Professor Balthazar Theme Song:
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Does anybody remember this little man and does perhaps anyone have just a little clip to upload to for instance YouTube? For nostalgic reasons I would just love to see the sequence I just described.
If you find more on interesting stuff on Balthazar on the net than these nice screenshots, let me know.
Sci-Fi Design: Retrofuturo
RETROFUTURO by Fabio Feminò (Via World of Kane)
Vintage Sci-Fi magazines and books like Amazing Stories, Fantastic Adventures and If. (Re-post)
Illustration: Soviet children's books
Soviet children's books (Via RaShOmoN).
More on the same subject (re-post from August).
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