An homage to François Josef Bosio’s sculpture ‘Cupid With a Bow’ (1808) by Spanish street art duo PichiAvo for the 2020 Wonderwalls Port Adelaide festival in southern Australia.
The original, famously, had no bow. PichiAvo lined up the Roman god with an ‘arrow’ in the form of an existing horizontal conduit on the wall.
Previously: Classical Graffiti
Dublin city centre (top), Rathfarnham and Kimmage yesterday
Conor Murphy writes
The campaign is by creative agency Pluto and space donated by Ad Tower. They very smartly separated the chimneys to adhere to social distancing….
Pics Phil Mara, Gnik, and David McGovern
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Maybe a little, but that’s not what’s happening here. To wit:
The featured 27-frame mosaic was taken last July from Ojas de Salar in the Atacama Desert of Chile. The eye is actually a small lagoon captured reflecting the dark night sky as the Milky Way Galaxy arched overhead. The seemingly smooth band of the Milky Way is really composed of billions of stars, but decorated with filaments of light-absorbing dust and red-glowing nebulas. Additionally, both Jupiter (slightly left the galactic arch) and Saturn (slightly to the right) are visible. The lights of small towns dot the unusual vertical horizon. The rocky terrain around the lagoon appears to some more like the surface of Mars than our Earth.
(Image: Miguel Claro (TWAN, Dark Sky Alqueva))
Grounded airline fleets around the world.
Above: Stansted airport, London. Photograph: Chris J Ratcliffe/Getty Images; Shuttlesworth international airport in Birmingham, Alabama. Photograph: Elijah Nouvelage/Reuters (x2); Bournemouth airport. Photograph: National Police Air Service/PA; Incheon international airport, South Korea. Photograph: YONHAP/EPA and Brisbane Airport, Australia. Photograph: Darren England/AAP)
MORE: Planes grounded by coronavirus pandemic sit idle at airports around the world (The Guardian)
Old Ireland In Colour tweets:
Ada Rehan, famous Limerick-born stage actress, born today 22 April 1857. New York. c.1897.
Photo: Aimé Dupont; Source: Library of Congress
Some of the 40 wonderful illustrations commissioned from Slovakian illustrator Peter Klúcik for an ill-fated 1990 reprint of JRR Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’ .
At that time, shortly after the fall of communism, the publishing house failed to adjust to the market economy, lost the rights and the book was never published. though he was approached by other publishers in the years that followed, Klúcik became disillusioned with Middle Earth, saying “I have had it with illustrations. I am going to paint!” Which he still does.
More here.
A jaunty, socially distanced rendition of Leroy Anderson’s ‘Plink, Plank Plunk!’ (composed largely of plucked stringed instruments) by members of the Chicago Sinfonietta.
‘Parc De La Distance’ – a meandering landscape imagined by Austrian design house Studio Precht – each path allowing just one person to pass at a time with hedges to maintain the 2m distancing rule.
Behold: the 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ – the ’Sprint Zagato’ version of the already popular Giulietta SV with an all-alloy, 1.8L, double overhead cam, inline-four Type AR00120 engine.
Only 200 of these were ever made and this one was purchased new in Italy by Italian racing driver Rinaldo Parmigiani, who competed in the Mille Miglia and Mugello in the ‘50s and ‘60s.
Yours for €456,000.
