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A glimpse at how ‘Pulp Fiction’ might have been, had it included a cat for Jules and Vincent to take care of, from YouTube feline cinéaste, OwlKitty.
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For the last week, Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) has been rising before dawn in the northern sky and some have made the most of the morning display. To wit:
Up before sunrise, the featured photographer was able to capture in dramatic fashion one of the few comets visible to the unaided eye this century, an inner-Solar System intruder that might become known as the Great Comet of 2020. The resulting video details Comet NEOWISE from Italy rising over the Adriatic Sea. The time-lapse video combines over 240 images taken over 30 minutes. The comet is seen rising through a foreground of bright and undulating noctilucent clouds, and before a background of distant stars. Comet NEOWISE has remained unexpectedly bright, so far, with its ion and dust tails found to emanate from a nucleus spanning about five kilometres. Fortunately, starting tonight, northern observers with a clear and dark northwestern horizon should be able to see the sun-reflecting interplanetary snowball just after sunset.
Word to the NEOWISE.
(Video: Paolo Girotti)
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Behold: the 70m Codecasa Jet 2020 Yacht – ‘inspired’ by aviation design and looking like the offspring of cruise ship and a Jumbo jet.
Along with accommodation for ten guests, there’s a 20x10m sundeck, swimming pool, indoor/outdoor gym, sea-level ‘beach club’, an owner’s suite taking up the entire bow of the main deck, a helipad and a double tender area with room for all manner of seafaring toys.
A concept up to now, actual construction is expected to start later this year.
If you’re in the market, you won’t be asking the price.
A ‘visual excavation’ of Western history by British photographer Drew Gardner wherein descendants of historically significant people pose, recreating famous portraits of their ancestor.
But there’s more going here than mock-ups. The photograph of Shannon LaNier (top pic) is especially significant.
He’s the sixth-great grandson of Jefferson and Sally Hemmings, who the third U.S. president enslaved and forced to bear his children, a story that’s long been left out of historical narratives.
(From top: Shannon LaNier, Jefferson’s sixth-great grandson; Hugo de Salis, fourth-great grandson of Napoleon. Napoleon in his study, by Jacques-Louis David, 1812; Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter of women’s rights activist Emeline Pankhurst; Tom Wonter, Wordsworth’s fourth-great grandson. William Wordsworth, portrait by William Shuter, 1798; Gerald Charles Dickens, Dickens’ great, great grandson. Charles Dickens, portrait by Herbert Watkins, 1858; Isambard Thomas, Brunel’s third-great grandson. Isambard Kingdom Brunel, portrait by Robert Howlett, 1857; Irina Guicciardini Strozzi, the 15th great granddaughter of Lisa del Giocondo. The Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci.)
A nutty, glitchy short created in Adobe Animate and After Effects by UK-based animator Dan Britt for Adult Swim in which Richard, his identical twin Graham and a spaceman ‘from the planet Space’ experiment with friendship art and mortality.