40 Webcomics You Need to Read Allow Us To Explain Comics are wonderful, visual ways of getting a story across, and it goes without saying that we at The Mary Sue love them. But as wonderful as they are, grabbing issue after issue can add up. And yet the desire for more comics persists. Luckily there are plenty of creative, engaging, funny, and complex stories and gag strips out there for those of us who need our dose of sequential art. Webcomics allow artists and writers to take advantage of almost unlimited possibilities and showcase truly innovative storytelling, plus they come from the minds and hands of people who simply love to create. Of course, this list could never be a comprehensive overview of every comic on the internet, or even every quality comic on the internet, but hopefully you come away with a new fandom to call your very own. (pictured: Noelle Stevenson‘s Nimona)
25 de los paisajes más surrealistas en la Tierra El planeta Tierra está repleto de paisajes tan bellos como extraños. Algunos son formaciones de tierra moldeadas a través de miles y miles de años por la madre naturaleza, mientras que otros son simplemente creaciones artificiales que han alterado el paisaje natural conocido de alguna forma. De Tanzania a China, pasando por México, estos son 25 paisajes que bien podrían servir de inspiración a los mejores pintores surrealistas. Grand Prismatic Spring. Wikipedia El Grand Prismatic Spring en el Parque Nacional de Yellowstone, en Wyoming (EE.UU.), es un respiradero hidrotermal que presenta una variedad de colores brillantes. Las Salinas de Torrevieja. Cerca de la localidad de Torrevieja, en el suroeste de España, se encuentran dos lagos salados y muy rosas llamados Las Salinas de Torrevieja. Pantano Muerto. Dead Vlei (pantano muerto), en Namibia, está cercado por las dunas de arena más altas del mundo, la planicie está repleta de árboles muertos de más de 900 años. Depresión de Danakil. Petra.
Las 250 mejores películas de la historia y un plano de metro, la imagen de la semana ¿Cuántas horas de nuestra vida habremos perdido por discutir con otras personas cuáles consideramos que son las mejores películas de la historia, el año, el mes o incluso de la semana —que a veces las distribuidoras parecen confabularse para no estrenar nada interesante durante semanas para luego sacar varias de golpe—? Pues aprovecho la tranquilidad habitual de los sábados para dedicar esta nueva entrega de la imagen de la semana a un plano que recoge las 250 mejores películas de la historia según los votantes de imdb. Uno de los grandes atractivos de esta lista, a la que cada uno dará la credibilidad que crea conveniente, es la original forma en la que aparece presentada, ya que se han dividido las películas por géneros —y subgéneros como drama sobre la tolerancia— para que cada uno de ellos sea una de las líneas del metro más cinematográfico de la historia. Vía | MacGuffin 007
9 Books on Reading and Writing by Maria Popova Dancing with the absurdity of life, or what symbolism has to do with the osmosis of trash and treasure. Hardly anything does one’s mental, spiritual, and creative health more good than resolving to read more and write better. Today’s reading list addresses these parallel aspirations. And since the number of books written about reading and writing likely far exceeds the reading capacity of a single human lifetime, this omnibus couldn’t be — shouldn’t be — an exhaustive list. If anyone can make grammar fun, it’s Maira Kalman — The Elements of Style Illustrated marries Kalman’s signature whimsy with Strunk and White’s indispensable style guide to create an instant classic. The original Elements of Style was published in 1919 in-house at Cornell University for teaching use and reprinted in 1959 to become cultural canon, and Kalman’s inimitable version is one of our 10 favorite masterpieces of graphic nonfiction. On the itch of writing, Lamott banters: On why we read and write:
5 Timeless Books of Insight on Fear and the Creative Process by Maria Popova From Monet to Tiger Woods, or why creating rituals and breaking routines don’t have to be conflicting notions. “Creativity is like chasing chickens,” Christoph Niemann once said. But sometimes it can feel like being chased by chickens — giant, angry, menacing chickens. Whether you’re a writer, designer, artist or maker of anything in any medium, you know the creative process can be plagued by fear, often so paralyzing it makes it hard to actually create. Today, we turn to insights on fear and creativity from five favorite books on the creative process and the artist’s way. Despite our best-argued cases for incremental innovation and creativity via hard work, the myth of the genius and the muse perseveres in how we think about great artists. In the ideal — that is to say, real — artist, fears not only continue to exist, they exist side by side with the desires that complement them, perhaps drive them, certainly feed them. Are you paralyzed with fear? Donating = Loving
100 Diagrams That Changed the World Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a “mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web. It appears that no great diagram is solely authored by its creator. Most of those described here were the culmination of centuries of accumulated knowledge. Most arose from collaboration (and oftentimes in competition) with others. Christianson offers a definition:
EL FUTURO QUE DEJAMOS ATRÁS – La ciencia ficción de los 70 en 50 películas, 1ª parte: Los avances científicos serán portadores del CAOS | El pájaro burlón En general, con sus más y sus menos, el equipo de redacción de El pájaro burlón se ha criado en los 80. Para futuros adictos al cine como hemos acabado siendo, no podemos quejarnos. Pillamos casi el punto de partida de los blockbusters, y digamos las películas de aventuras, de acción y de fantasía, en líneas generales, se hacían enfocadas hacia un público juvenil desde Hollywood, lo cual para nosotros por edad era ideal. Aquella visión aparentemente tan inocente no estaba tan alejada de la realidad y lo descubriríamos años después. Salió del ghetto, empezó a llegar a unas masas que comenzaban a consumir un tipo de arte popular muy diferente al de décadas anteriores. La década de los 70 para el género recibe el primer aviso del cambio de ciclo en 1977 con la llegada de La guerra de las galaxias y es un anticipo del mundo que estaba por venir. -Androides, extraterrestres y otras criaturas infernales nos llevarán al EXTERMINIO. Pero, ¡tranquilos! 1.08 – TEST PILOTA PIRXA (1979) Polonia
The 10 best movies about design | Industry insight Need some design inspiration this holiday season? Well, rather than tune into the latest by-the-numbers action film or romcom, why not take a look at some of the many awesome design documentaries? There’s nothing better than seeing what some of the great designers have done to help boost your creative ideas and spur you on. 01. Seminal artist Saul Bass and Mayo Simon created animated short documentary Why Man Creates in 1968. 02. American director Gary Hustwit celebrates 50 years of the typeface with a feature-length documentary focusing on the wider conversation about how type affects our culture. 03. Directed by Mu-Ming Tsai, Design and Thinking examines how design can influence the world of business and social change and calls on creative minds to work together to change the world. 04. Following on from Helvetica, Gary Hustwit’s second film looks at the world of design engineering and the creative concepts behind everyday objects such as toothbrushes to tech gadgets. 05. 06. 07.
Infographic: Humans Are Just A Twig On The Tree Of Life Life started with bacteria. By some cosmic chance, amino acids became DNA and proteins, which together became life. It took roughly 2 billion more years for things to get more interesting…but things got very, very interesting. Click to enlarge. In this graphic by the Tree of Life web project and designer Leonard Eisenberg, we see all 3.5 billion years of life on earth evolving, not through limbs and timelines, but an elegant rainbow swirl. As you look at the graphic, realize that time radiates outward and each kingdom’s appearance is also in chronological order from left to right. You’ll see lots of ideas that didn’t work--branches surrounded by small pockets of white or an extinct species. Humans? Read more here.. [Hat tip: Visual.ly]
Surrealist techniques Surrealism in art, poetry, and literature uses numerous techniques and games to provide inspiration. Many of these are said to free imagination by producing a creative process free of conscious control. The importance of the unconscious as a source of inspiration is central to the nature of surrealism. The Surrealist movement has been a fractious one since its inception. The value and role of the various techniques has been one of many subjects of disagreement. Aerography[edit] Aerography is a technique in which a 3-dimensional object is used as a stencil with spraypainting. Automatism[edit] Automatic drawingAutomatic paintingAutomatic writingAutomatic poetry is poetry written using the automatic method. Automatic poetry generators exist online, but they do not actually generate automatic poetry in this sense. The Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal used the method of automatic text in his famous book I served a British king. Bulletism[edit] Bulletism is shooting ink at a blank piece of paper.
The 10 Most Confusing Movies of All Time Nobody loves summer blockbusters more than we do. (We’ve already seen ‘Star Trek Into Darkness‘ multiple times.) Occasionally though, we need a movie with substance rather than something filled with special effects and thunderous explosions. But, sometimes dense, complicated movies leave us wondering,“What the heck did we just watch?” Warner Bros. Today, Stanley Kubrick's big screen adaptation of Arthur C. And let's not forget the film's ending, where astronaut Dave Bowman hurtles through a psychedelic kaleidoscope of colors and is then transformed into a giant space-faring baby known as the "Star Child." Newmarket Films Look, we love 'Donnie Darko' as much as the hipster barista with a Frank the Bunny tattoo at your local coffee shop, but you practically need a degree in theoretical physics to suss out the meaning of this cult classic. Luckily, a director's cut was released in 2004 that makes the twisty, time travel plot a bit easier to follow. Summit Entertainment American Film Institute
11 Bizarre and Dangerous Items Sold by Sears in 1902 The 1902 edition of the Sears, Roebuck catalogue offers items of particular interest and questionable health benefits—everything from the latest fashions to the “surest” cures. Here are some highlights. 1. Dr. Rose’s French Arsenic Complexion Wafers These poisonous wafers were advertised as being “simply magical” for the complexion, their most striking effects “being brought about by their steady use.” 2. At first glance, a toilet mask doesn’t sound so bad. 3. This toilet accessory looks more or less like an oversized suction cup. 4. This elixir was ingested to kill intestinal parasites—and hopefully not their human host. 5. This herb is advertised as a homeopathic medicine, and while it has a long history of medicinal use, it’s better known by another name: wolfsbane, a known poison and neurotoxin. 6. To be used as an insecticide on crops and animals, this product promises to kill “plant lice, red spiders, scales, and mealy bugs,” among other pests. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.