A self-isolated but pleasingly frisky cover of The Cure’s ‘The Lovecats’ performed by The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
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Every second August, volunteers gather at Grand Place in Brussels to create a 1,750 square metre rug composed of a million begonias – the country’s biggest floral export. The installation lasts about four days (up to the point where the flowers have wilted).
With the 2020 installation cancelled on account of the Grand Lurgy, this time-lapsed tilt-shifted short from 2018 by filmmaker Joerg Daiber of Spoon Film shows how it would have been.
A short by German animator Vincenz Neuhaus about a boy with a nose capable of discerning the intrinsic essence of everything on earth.
Keep that kid away from my cocaine, etc.
A short film from The School Of Life about the importance of speaking up when the time is right. To wit:
It can seem as though we all need to learn to be less angry – and that no one has any problem raising their voice and getting their opinions across. The truth is more nuanced. A sizeable number of us suffer from shyness about expressing our real needs and our true aspirations – and thereby do ourselves and others a disservice.
Previously: Listen Up
Well, summer has officially come to Earth’s northern hemisphere.
Meh. It’s been Summer in the north of Saturn’s largest moon since May 24th, 2017. To wit:
Orbiting the gas giant, Saturn’s moon Titan experiences the Saturnian seasons that are about 7 Earth-years long. Larger than inner planet Mercury, Titan was captured in this Cassini spacecraft image about two weeks after its northern summer began. The near-infrared view finds bright methane clouds drifting through Titan’s dense, hazy atmosphere as seen from a distance of about 507,000 kilometers. Below the clouds, dark hydrocarbon lakes sprawl near its fully illuminated north pole.
(Image: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA)
Mashup maestro DJ Cummerbund’s homage to Danny Devito’s turn as ‘man cheetah’ from ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ – seamlessly blending tracks by Hall & Oates, The Strokes, The White Stripes and Chris Isaak.
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Behold: the Donkervoort D8 GTO JD-70, a carbon fibre roadster taking its design cues from the Lotus Seven.
Powered by a 415bhp Audi inline five, the JD-70 will accelerate to 100km/h in 2.7 seconds and on to a top speed of 280km/h, pulling an F1-bothering 2g in the corners.
Only 70 will be made (celebrating the 70th birthday of the company’s founder, Joop Donkervoort) and yours (prior to your bespoke spec order) will start at €165,400.
Neil Armstrong on the moon, July 20th, 1969.
Correspondence published recently in the book ‘A reluctant Icon: Letters To Neil Armstrong’, to wit: a letter to the first human to set foot on the Moon from a teacher (just let that sink in for a moment) followed by Armstrong’s reply.