By #covidbookcovers.
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Ideal Homes
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‘Domestic Demise’: the pressures of domesticity in an age of lockdown explored by photographer Patty Carroll: a series comprised of highly stylised scenes featuring a faceless mannequin attempting— and failing to complete—a range of duties. Sez she:
The interior of the home is comforting, but can also camouflage individual identity, especially when the idealised decor becomes an obsession, or indication of position or status
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Behold: newly discovered comet C2020 F8 SWAN, just arrived from the outer solar system and developing a nice ion tail, having already passed inside the orbit path of the Earth. To wit:
…this outgassing interplanetary iceberg will pass its closest to the Earth on May 13, and closest to the Sun on May 27. The comet was first noticed in late March by an astronomy enthusiast looking through images taken by NASA’s Sun-orbiting SOHO spacecraft, and is named for this spacecraft’s Solar Wind Anisotropies (SWAN) camera. The featured image, taken from the dark skies in Namibia in mid-April, captured Comet SWAN‘s green-glowing coma and unexpectedly long, detailed, and blue ion-tail. Although the brightness of comets are notoriously hard to predict, some models have Comet SWAN becoming bright enough to see with the unaided eye during June.
(Image: Gerald Rhemann)
An animated ode to Stephen Hawking about our ‘cosmic belonging’ and the meaning of home by Marie Howe.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the ARMORTRUCK (all that’s missing is ‘u’) : a survivalist SUV concept – like a shiny Humber Pig from the future – by designer Milne Ivanov.
If it seems to have driven right off the set of an apocalyptic sci-fi movie, that’s because Ivanov has designed for Dreamworks, as well as outré marques like Vilner and Rimac.
Inside the rugged angular shell with its bizarrely treaded wheels and LED peripheral lights, lies a luxurious Alcantara and black leather upholstery interior, a race-inspired cockpit and a touchscreen navigation system.
Yours in late 2039 for two irradiated goats and a water filtration system.
A dress and jacket made from knitted-together rubber bands by Japanese designer Rie Sakamoto:
The matte-sand coloured bands (which took six months to knit) exude a near iridescent orange colour en masse.
Uncanny Cat
atParisian photographer François Vogel’s experiments with slit-scan photography and After Effects time-displacement, applied to his Abyssinian cat – whose jellyfish manifestation will fuel your nightmares later.
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A recent, pre-pandemic sunset in Dublin (sure nothing’s changed, has it?).
(Thanks Streets Of Dublin)