Author Archives: Chompsky
But he would not quit.
The mukimono of Japanese artist Takehiro Kishimoto – intricate geometric patterns and elaborate leaves and blooms incised into fruit and vegetables.
FPV drone ‘pilot’ Rene Renson chases longboarder Josh Neumann and his two pals down the supremely curvy Lysevegen, which wends its way down a mountainside in Lysebotn, Norway.
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Too late.
‘Coincidance’ by Handsome Dancer.
Your signature move for the rest of the day.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: The Pagani Imola – an 864bhp, 6.0 litre hypercar named after the iconic 17-bend Ferrari home-circuit racetrack.
The low profile V12 track-monster has an ultralight carbo-titanium monocoque chassis with a massive roof-mounted air scoop and rear wing.
Only five will be made and you can’t have one because they’re all spoken for, despite the €5 million+ price tag.
Behold: one of the most familiar sights in the night sky: Orion – seen here above the Central Bohemian Highlands of the Czech Republic – the constellation has been known to stargazers for over 30,000 years. To wit:
Orion has looked pretty much the same during this time and should continue to look the same for many thousands of years into the future. Prominent Orion is high in the sky at sunset this time of year, a recurring sign of (modern) winter in Earth‘s northern hemisphere and summer in the south. The featured picture is a composite of over thirty images taken from the same location and during the same night last month. Below and slightly to the left of Orion’s three-star belt is the Orion Nebula, while four of the bright stars surrounding the belt are, clockwise, Sirius (far left, blue), Betelgeuse (top, orange, unusually faint), Aldebaran (far right), and Rigel (below). As future weeks progress, Orion will set increasingly earlier.
(Image: Vojtěch Bauer)
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An Industrial Light And Magic featurette showing how ‘The Mandalorian’ is filmed – not against green screen or on location but inside a digitally projected environment – developed in collaboration with Epic Games – that moves in sync with the camera.
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The intricate layered paper dioramas of Japanese artist Ayumi Shibata – some small enough to fit in the palm of the hand, others encased in jars or big enough to step inside. Sez she:
White paper expresses the yang, light, (and) the process to cut expresses the yin, shadow. When the sun shines upon an object, a shadow is born. Front and back, yin and yang, two side(s) of the same coin.
Now for yeh.
More of her work here.