The Boatman and Other Stories by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck: a series of life-size monochrome vignettes – widely contrasting but all exploring themes of transition and impending change.
Exhibiting at Galleria Continua in San Gimignano until next January.
Make of them what you will.
Botanic Gardens, Dublin.
Colum Cronin tweetz:
“To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.” Beverley Nichols
Behold: the 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400S – fully restored after a minor accident and stripped back to bare aluminium by its current owner.
Currently accepting bids in the region of €1.8 million and presenting a dilemma to its future owner: whether to restore the car to its original grey-white factory colour or leave it as it is.
A very pleasing, if unseasonal time-lapse by photographer Casper Rolsted featuring Springtime from the deciduous forests of Skjoldungernes Land National Park to the mist-covered inlets of Ise Fjord, and across the ice-age regions of West Zealand.
More of his work, including three more instalments of Scandinavian seasons here.
Behold: Pluto, but not as it’s normally seen. To wit:
Colour data and high-resolution images of our Solar System’s most famous dwarf planet, taken by the robotic New Horizons spacecraft during its flyby in 2015 July, have been digitally combined to give an enhanced-colour view of this ancient world sporting an unexpectedly young surface. The featured enhanced color image is not only aesthetically pretty but scientifically useful, making surface regions of differing chemical composition visually distinct. For example, the light-coloured heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio on the lower right is clearly shown here to be divisible into two regions that are geologically different, with the leftmost lobe Sputnik Planitia also appearing unusually smooth. After Pluto, New Horizons continued on, shooting past asteroid Arrokoth in 2019 and has enough speed to escape our Solar System completely.
(Image: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Inst.)
Rob Cross tweetz:
My 1900c photo of The Hole in the Wall. British soldiers based in McKee Barracks would sneak off and go for a pint in the tavern and the owner Levinus Doyle served the men through a hole in the park wall, hence the name.
Behold: the Jumpacan – a skeletonised Dark Knight-era-Batmobile-looking Lamborghini Huracán created by off-road customiser Chris Steinbacher to take on the 2021 Mint 400 race through the Nevada desert outside Las Vegas.
There’s a 12 point roll cage, rock sliders, massively beefed up long-travel suspension and a gutted interior with Corbeau racing seats and a race display.
The desert Lambo is still in pre-race development, with plans for a skid plate and even more robust suspension upgrades but you can see it in action (eventually) here.
