Scenes from Dublin city this week.
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(Pix: Oisín Kane)
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Fairly convincing proof, in fairness, from actor and comedian Wes Tank that Dr Seuss lyrics work well as rap.
Here, he performs the progressively more tongue-twisting ‘Fox In Socks’ (1965) over beats from ‘What’s the Difference’ and ‘Let Me Ride’.
You (or indeed, your children) may also care for his versions of ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ and ‘The Lorax’.
A charming short by Latvian illustrator and animator Anete Melece featuring Anton – a man lost in his own head until one day the discovery of a yellow boot offers a way out.
A new short from Rathergood, continuing the dubious zoology of 2015’s ‘Dinosaurs: Terrible Lizards’ with a feature on Graham – a loveable, good-natured, unstoppable juggernaut.
Behold: NGC 1672 – one of many spiral galaxies (our own Milky Way included) to have a bar across their central core. To wit:
Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bright bar of stars across the centre, and a bright active nucleus that likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million years to reach us from NGC 1672, which spans about 75,000 light years across. NGC 1672, which appears toward the constellation of the Dolphinfish (Dorado), has been studied to find out how a spiral bar contributes to star formation in a galaxy’s central regions.
(Image: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & Copyright: Daniel Nobre)
Depictions of the elephant created in the scriptoria of largely elephant-free Medieval Europe – many of which feature in Uli Westphal’s fascinating Elephas Anthropogenus project.
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Behold: the BMW R9T – a heavily customised, some would say ‘Steampunked’ take on the BMW R18 by Mikhail Smolyanov and John Reed of Russian custom shop Ziller’s Garage.
A stunning piece of aluminium hog-sculpture with ground clearance so minimal, you’ll probably only be able to ride it safely in the kitchen.
