Author Archives: Chompsky

Behold: the 1961 Ferrari 250GT SWB Berlinetta: hand build, designed by Pininfarina with coachwork by Scaglietti – a legend from a time before computer aided design and the tyranny of aerodynamics.

This vehicle comes complete with a historic racing history and full Ferrari Classiche certification.

Price on request but something very similar sold last summer for €7.14 million.

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Experiments in digital extrapolation by photographer Bas Uterwijk (albeit subjective in the fine detail and employing a degree of artistic interpretation)  – using Artbreeder AI software to extract real world features from painted depictions, portraits and sculptures.

Above: Elizabeth the First, Michelangelo’s ‘David’, Napoleon Bonaparte, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Jesus Christ, George Washington and Vincent Van Gogh

Tenuously related: The Descendants

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For the next few nights, given favourable conditions where you are, Comet NEOWISE will be visible in the evening sky. To wit:

Go outside just at sunset and look to your northwest. The lower your horizon, the better. Binoculars may help, but if your sky is cloudless and dark, all you should need is your unaided eyes and patience. As the Sun sets, the sky will darken, and there will be an unusual faint streak pointing diagonally near the horizon. That is Comet NEOWISE. It is a 5-kilometre-wide evaporating dirty iceberg visiting from — and returning to — the outer Solar System. As the Earth turns, the comet will soon set, so you might want to take a picture. In the featured image, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was captured two mornings ago rising over Stonehenge in the UK. Discovered with the NASA satellite NEOWISE toward the end of March, Comet NEOWISE has surprised many by surviving its closest approach to the Sun, brightening dramatically, and developing impressive (blue) ion and (white) dust tails.

(Image: Declan Deval)

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