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The first post-lockdown concert to be staged at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre Del Liceu.
The performance – conceived by Spanish artist Eugenio Ampudio – of Giacomo Puccini’s “I Crisantemi” by the UceLi Quartet was enjoyed by an audience of 2,292 houseplants, each one occupying a red velvet seat
Non profit US publishing house McSweeneys has been compiling a detailed timeline of Donald Trump’s most egregious pronouncements and actions. 736 items so far, and counting. To wit:
We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors — happening almost daily — would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know it’s never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them. This list will be updated between now and the November 2020 Presidential election.
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A look at the organised chaos behind the writing of the world’s best animated series by video essayists Behind The Curtain, featuring interviews with creators Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.
With last Sunday’s solstice came the northernmost sunset for 2020 and – as an added bonus for some – an annular solar eclipse. Some viewpoints were better than others. To wit:
At maximum eclipse, the New Moon in silhouette created a ring of fire visible along a narrow path at most 85 kilometers wide. The annular eclipse path began in central Africa, crossed south Asia and China, and ended over the Pacific Ocean. But a partial eclipse of the Sun was visible over a much broader region. In Hong Kong, this busy section of Jordan Street looks to the northwest, well-aligned with the track of the near solstice afternoon Sun. The street level view was composited with an eclipse sequence made with a safe solar filter on the camera. For that location the eclipse was partial. The Moon covered about 90 percent of the Sun’s diameter at maximum, seen near the middle of the eclipse sequence.
(Image: Gary Chan)
A journey through the stages of life by London based artist and animator Vier Nev using pareidolia to tell two parallel tales of birth, identity and, eh, cats.
Behold: the Aston Martin X Brough AMB 001 – a collaboration between Aston Martin and motorcycle manufacturer Brough Superior.
The carbon fibre and aluminium track machine, recently tested at the Pau-Arnos circuit in France, has wide aggressive stance with a cantilevered front fork and a turbocharged intercooled 180bhp V-twin motor.
Only 100 will be made and yours will be ready for collection this Autumn. Bring €106,600.
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An evening stroll around my neighbourhood in Dublin
Meanwhile…
Last night.
Blackrock, County Cork.
