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Possibly one of the more unexpected products at Maker Faire Africa this year in Lagos is a urine powered generator, created by four girls. The girls are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15). 1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity. (via Blog : Maker Faire Africa)

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In the late 1940s and ’50s, there was a mixed genre of picture narrative in Japanese youth magazines that, as far as I know, does not have its own name. It usually appeared under the rubric of “emonogatari” (pronounced “eh-mono-gatari”)…

Like I said, as far as I know, there is no standard name for this hybrid medium. The magazines and furoku booklets (premiums) that carry such work advertise them as “emonogatari,” but if one opens them looking for prose coupled with framed rectangular pictures, they will be disappointed. There is still a heavy textual component, with strong expository qualities, but now much more of the story is shown rather than told. Still standard is the naturalistic illustrational style that emonogatari derived from 1930s illustrated prose and kamishibai, but now less sharp in line, sometimes clunky, less tableaux-like and more fractured into dramatic “cinematic” details. The character and narrative types are also fully in the tradition of emonogatari, kamishibai, and prewar juvenile fiction. But there is increasing humor, some of which seems derived from the movies, but many of the reflexive gags are clearly inspired by Tezuka Osamu and his kin. The most obvious markers of comics’ influence, however, are these works’ dynamic paneling, speech balloons, and sound effects. Much of this imported formal language suggests American comics over Japanese: round panels, big panels, shaped panels, figures that are too fleshy to be from ’30s Japan, large cartouches of text, and coloring (when there is coloring) that is often close in palette to contemporary American comics. At least one youth magazine at the time – Manga King (Manga ō) – included translations of American titles like Durango Kid, Lone Ranger, and Reed Crandall-era Blackhawk, all licensed through the NANA (North American Newspaper Alliance) news syndicate. One emonogatari Western from 1953 in the monthly Tankai is advertised as a “talkie action emonogatari,” as if the insertion of speech balloons and serial imagery signified sound cinema. But obviously the major influence was comics, Japanese and especially American.

Soooo awesome.

There’s 5 pages of article on this stuff, with tons more amazing work to look at. GO LOOK http://www.tcj.com/emonogatari-in-the-age-of-comics-1948-1957/

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designlikeyougiveafuck:

“Your rainbow panorama” of the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The new project was opened on the 28^th of May 2011 on the top of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum.

More Eliasson!

I wanna experience an Eliasson piece before I die. :[

unknownskywalker:

The Universe. It’s Just Not That Into You by Jeremy Huggins

A series of five prints describing ways in which the universe is potentially out to get you. Buy prints at Etsy.

LOVE this.

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Oh man, these are so gorgeous. I love these kinds of little design exercises. They make me so happy. |3

See the rest by Nicole Meyer here!

nearlya:

Olafur Eliason Your making things explicit 2009

Ahhh I love Eliasson! PREPARE FOR ARTIST DUMP

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