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Behold: the BMW ‘Good Ghost’ – the final build in a trilogy of art deco style tributes by customiser Dirk Oehlerking.
Based on a 1980 BMW R100 RS, this one-off art-hog repurposes components amassed by Oehlerking over the years to create a ’streamliner’ profile complete with one piece suede and leather saddle and tank cover, stacked quad analog instrument display, toolkit/messkit tucked into the rear wheel covers and a BMW 2002-style kidney grill.
You can’t have it.
It’s just for looking at.
One of the many things ’Solo: A Star Wars Story’ lacked was the presence of Harrison Ford as Solo.
Fever Dream
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Seeing Red
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Ah, there you are. To wit:
…the Moon occasionally moves in front of all of the Solar System‘s planets. Just this past Sunday, as visible from some locations in South America, a waning gibbous Moon eclipsed Mars. The featured image from Córdoba, Argentina captured this occultation well, showing a familiar cratered Moon in the foreground with the bright planet Mars unusually adjacent. Within a few seconds, Mars then disappeared behind the Moon, only to reappear a few minutes later across the Moon. Today the Moon moves close to, but not in front of, Venus. Because alignments will not have changed by much, the next two times the Moon passes through this part of the sky – in early September and early October – it will also occult Mars, as seen from parts of South America.
(Image: Sergio Scauso)
The Monster Project: whereby kids’ drawings submitted from around the world are recreated by professional artists in order to encourage same nippers to pursue their creative potential.
In fairness.
Colum Cronin tweetz:
Monty is a very good boy. He’s good at sleeping, eating, barking, walking, and playing. He’s not very good at hiding.
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Behold: the 2003 Ferrari 360 Modena Limousine – a regular 360 Modena cut in half by Australian modder Scott Marshall, extended using a custom fabricated aluminium and carbon fibre insert (complete with gulwing doors) then re-shut. Inside: a monstrous surround sound setup, luxury bench setting, a minibar and a Las Vegas level coloured lighting system.
This unholy Frankenhorse, powered by its original rear-mounted 3.6 litre V8, can be yours for around €243,000 plus shipping.
Hello There
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Yes you two, near the big grey arrows there.
Are there other solar systems, just like ours, with planets orbiting a star? Well, stars we’ve seen, obviously, and – when the light is just right – exoplanets. But never both in conjunction. Until now. To wit:
Recently, however, and for the first time, a pair of planets has been directly imaged around a Sun-like star. These exoplanets orbit the star designated TYC 8998-760-1 and are identified by arrows in the featured infrared image. At 17 million years old, the parent star is much younger than the 5-billion-year age of our Sun. Also, the exoplanets are both more massive and orbit further out than their Solar System analogues: Jupiter and Saturn. The exoplanets were found by the ESO‘s Very Large Telescope in Chile by their infrared glow – after the light from their parent star was artificially blocked. As telescope and technology improve over the next decade, it is hoped that planets more closely resembling our Earth will be directly imaged.
An extraordinary persistence of vision installation by Russian art collective TUNDRA which sez of it:
Row is a modular and scalable array of screens that can form lines of various length of any desired shape. Translating raw visuals driven by generative sound, the content itself is being echoed with a slight delay which creates various moving patterns that highlight and reflect the spatial characteristics of where it is installed.
Fair enough.