Happy Friday, and welcome to my weekly collection of good links, a roundup stuff I enjoyed over the past week!

Today’s links include DVD extras, custom book covers and surprising octopus pals 🐙📺🎥

#CabinetOfCuriosities #Friday #Links #GoodLinks #Roundup

1) This YouTube channel posts DVD extras like bonus features and behind the scenes featurettes 📀📺🎥

https://youtube.com/@dvdextras393

I learned so much about the art of visual storytelling from watching things like this and listening to commentary tracks, I really miss things like this

(Let me know if you find a particularly great one on there!)

#DVD #DVDExtras #BehindTheScenes #Cinema #Film #Filmmaking #BTS #Letterboxd

DVD Extras

Channel focusing on collecting bonus features and extras from DVD for movies and TV shows. Featuring behind the scenes interviews with cast and crew, deleted scenes, nostalgic trailers, and more!

YouTube

2) Make your own Penguin Classics book cover with ease using this generator tool 🐧📕

http://penguin.jos.ht

#Book #Bookstodon #PenguinClassics #BookCover

Penguin Classics Cover Generator

Create and download custom Penguin Classics book covers

3) Love this gif shared by nixCraft that illustrates counting in binary in a cool tangible way 0️⃣1️⃣

Via https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/110657159682737950

#Binary #Code #Math #Mathematics

4) Octopuses are usually solitary and incubate their eggs for at least 5 years, sometimes up to 13 (!)

So it’s exciting that scientists have found “the largest aggregate of octopuses known anywhere in the world, deep-sea or not”, where octopuses are hatching their eggs in less than 2 years 🐙

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-hot-secret-behind-a-deep-sea-octopus-garden/

#Octopus #OctopusGarden #Science #DeepSea

The Hot Secret behind a Deep-Sea ‘Octopus Garden’

Thousands of usually solitary octopuses gather to brood eggs in a special spot off California

Scientific American

5) How close can you get to painting an approximate copy of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa in 60 seconds? Find out with this fun Clone-a Lisa game 🎨🖼️

https://vole.wtf/clone-a-lisa/

(My best so far is 72%, what’s yours?)

#Art #DaVinci #MonaLisa #CloneALisa #WebToys #Game

Clone-a Lisa 🎨⏱️ art forgery game

One minute to copy Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

VOLE.wtf
@lauraehall I got like a 61% and am SHOCKED it was that high 😂
@helveticablanc if you play enough times it eventually devolves into strategic blob placement, hahah
@lauraehall 😂😂😂