Reposted by Humu Trott
@tvaziri.com just in case you haven't seen this! archive.org/details/tipp... "I attended the [Phil Tippett Studios] liquidation sale, and discovered a giant folder of CD-ROMs and DVDs with media assets was part of the 'everything must go' sale."
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Tippett Studios visual archive (unofficial, plz read desc!)
As many of you may have heard, the Berkeley, CA-based physical office of Tippett Studios, Phil Tippett's pioneering stop motion & CG effects company, were sold off in mid-2026 due to the 2024 bank...
![Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks Maria Loconsole1*, Silvia Benavides-Varela2,3, Lucia Regolin1 Humans across multiple languages spontaneously associate the nonwords “kiki” and “bouba” with spiky and round shapes, respectively, a phenomenon named the bouba-kiki effect. To explore the origin of this association, and whether it is unique to humans, we tested the bouba-kiki effect in baby domestic chickens (Gallus gallus). as a precocial species, chicks can be tested shortly after hatching, allowing us to control their pretest experiences. Similar to humans, both 3-day-old [experiment 1 (exp. 1)] and 1-day-old (exp. 2) chicks spontaneously choose a spiky shape when hearing the “kiki” sound and a round shape when hearing the “bouba” sound. results from naïve young animals suggest a predisposed mechanism for matching the dimensions of shape and sound, which may be widespread across species.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:v6qwaqo24zfrq5fj7ceibxqk/bafkreigaspshdrleahxzyp6b6rjodus6gk4zcoaw77smu7olklmbshdx74)
