The Mandalorian’s Taika Waititi-voiced robotic bounty hunter expressed as a 35cm tall model with 29 points of articulation, a light-up head and 360° of spin at the waist – from the nice people that made your Mk85 Iron Man Armour.
Available this October for around €230 (+P&P).
A chooka-train to be precise.
Quentin Smirhes’ scooty-bum lip-synch to The King Singers’ 1975 a capella cover of Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood’s ‘I’m A Train’.
This is a thing you will have watched today.
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Saw this on the R148 in Kildare earlier. Hope it’s just to “honour” the number of dead on International Nurses Day but still, WTF!?
Behold: the 2021 Hummer H1 – a conceptual design by former Rezvani and Lamborghini designer Samir Sadikhov.
Slightly more rounded-out and less utilitarian than the original, the truck retains the seven-slot grille, adding bonnet and roof racks to two envisaged variants: a four-door pickup and an SUV with a four-panel panoramic roof.
Lol at you trying to park up outside Mace.
A fantastical short by Russ Etheridge influenced by Hindu mythology. To wit:
A woman secretly watches her crush from across the factory floor. The moon disappears. Things start to fall apart.
Behold: nebular cloud NGC 2014 in the Large Magellanic Cloud – like a great glowing ocean reef in the sky. To wit:
A detailed image of this distant nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope to help commemorate 30 years of investigating the cosmos. Data and images of this cosmic reef have been combined into the three-dimensional model flown through in the featured video. The computer animated sequence first takes you past a star cluster highlighted by bright blue stars, below pillars of gas and dust slowly being destroyed by the energetic light and winds emitted by these massive stars. Filaments of gas and dust are everywhere, glowing in the red light of hydrogen and nitrogen. The animation next takes you to the blue-coloured nebula NGC 2020, glowing in light emitted by oxygen and surrounding a Wolf-Rayet star about 200,000 times brighter than our Sun — a nebula thought to be the ejected outer atmosphere of this stellar monster. As the animation concludes, the virtual camera pivots to show that NGC 2020 has a familiar hourglass shape when viewed from the side.
(Video: NASA, ESA, and Viz3D Team (STScIi))
A pleasing symphonic medley of Daft Punk tunes including Robot Rock, Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Something About Us, Aerodynamic, One More Time, Doin’ it Right, and Around the World by the UK-based Kaleidoscope Orchestra.
