Con Kennedy tweetz
Not saying the mother has lost it in 3 weeks of self-isolation… but she’s resorted to crocheting this….:
Author Archives: Chompsky
Unruffled
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Yesterday. Oranmore, County Galway.
Pete Glavey tweetz:
Oranmore bridge in the village had one swan resting,…
Deadly
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‘Fragments’: acrylic paintings on wooden panels – the wonderful, morbid, surreal skeletal figures and anatomical forms of artist Jason Limon.
Spiderbird
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Tele-gigging – one of many upsides to the current lockdown.
Here, John Fogerty – still a vocal powerhouse at 74 – performs acoustic versions of three Creedence Clearwater Revival classics for Rolling Stone’s ‘In My Room’ series.
San Francisco in quarantine by drone – an eerie sight for those who know the place – Fisherman’s Wharf, downtown, Market Street, the Haight – all deserted, apart from a few stragglers.
Now how about empty Vienna?
Or empty London.
Or empty Manhattan.
Or empty Dublin.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1965 Griffith Series 200 – a TVR Grantura with a Ford V8 engine designed to take on the all conquering AC Cobra. The combination of powerful engine and extreme lightweight made for a 0-100km/h time of under 5 seconds – which was quite something in the 1960s.
This prototype (with the ultra low chassis number of 200/5/002, ie. number 2 of 200 made) goes to auction this summer (COVID-19-permitting).
Dublin 1. Last night.
SIPTU tweetz:
Liberty Hall lights up in solidarity with all the #FrontlineHeroes working night and day to keep our people healthy, to look after our sick and to keep our country moving.
Behold: star forming region Sharpless 106, at the centre of which is the massive star IRS4 – one of very few stars to be younger than the human race. To wit:
Born only about 100,000 years ago, material streaming out from this newborn star has formed the nebula S106. A large disk of dust and gas orbiting Infrared Source 4 (IRS 4), visible in brown near the image centre, gives the nebula an hourglass or butterfly shape. S106 gas near IRS 4 acts as an emission nebula as it emits light after being ionised, while dust far from IRS 4 reflects light from the central star and so acts as a reflection nebula. Detailed inspection of a relevant infrared image of S106 reveal hundreds of low-mass brown dwarf stars lurking in the nebula’s gas. S106 spans about 2 light-years and lies about 2000 light-years away toward the constellation of the Swan (Cygnus).
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive; Processing & Copyright: Utkarsh Mishra)