You merely adopted the darkness.
They were born in it.
Under the stairs. In a box.
The speciality of Japanese photographer and feline martial arts aficionado Hisakata Hiroyuki.
Author Archives: Chompsky
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Having worked their way through the 1980s, master mashers-up The Hood Internet move on to a new decade with 60 tunes from 1990 mixed together into one three and a half minute confection.
Previously: 1989
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1961 Jaguar E-Type Fixed Head coupe – an extremely early production development series 1 demonstration car for one of Jaguar’s greatest GTs.
Painted opalescent dark green with assigned chassis number 860010, this car had unique design features that would later make it into full production including lowered driver’s side floor, redesigned seats and pedal position plus numerous mechanical improvements.
Fully restored to Concours level with its original engine, it’s arguably one of the finest E-Types on the market and goes to auction at the end of this month.
It’s just a video essay from The School Of Life. To wit:
The philosopher Spinoza shows us that our minds possess an under-appreciated ability to adopt a broader perspective, from which our anxieties appear vanishingly small – and eminently manageable.
Previously: You Good?
Fatboy Slim’s ‘Weapon Of Choice’ set to Spike Jonze’s memorable video featuring Christopher Walken’s zero-G hoofing but with the 2nd and 4th beats of the track swapped by Steve Badach to create an equally infectious glitched mix.
Fugly Mutts
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Early morning yesterday on St Stephen’s Green, Dublin.
(Thanks to the always keen-eyed Colum Cronin)
At first glance, the work of Sofia Crespo may resemble the 18th century renderings of Louis Renard or Albertus Seba but a closer look reveals disturbing alien glitches in the natural world: conjoined fish, featherlike blooms and malformed wingless insects.
Entitled ‘Artificial Natural History’, the project uses artificial neural networks to generate the illustrations, which Crespo describes as a form of ‘Renaissance humanism’:
Our visual cortex recognises the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to…
Well it all looks perfectly nx6xqssttk to us.
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The newly opened Dujiangyan Zhongshuge Bookstore in Chengdu, China.
It’s books, and pictures of books, all the way up.
No, they don’t have the new Marian Keyes in.
