In this tribute to Velcro, London-based XK Studio celebrates the inspiration Swiss engineer George de Mestral took from the way cockle-burs stuck to his dog’s fur during a walk in the Jura mountains in the 1940s, thereby giving rise to the world’s most ubiquitous fastener.
A dramatic composite of two shots taken from the same location inside the Grand Canyon, one hour apart. To wit:
The two images were taken last August from the 220 Mile Canyon campsite on the Colorado River, Arizona, USA. The peaks glow red because they were lit by an unusually red sunset. Later, high above, the band of the Milky Way Galaxy angled dramatically down, filled with stars, nebula, and dark clouds of dust. To the Milky Way’s left is the planet Saturn, while to the right is the brighter Jupiter. Although Jupiter and Saturn are now hard to see, Venus will be visible and quite bright to the west in clear skies, just after sunset, for the next two months.
(Image: Robert Q. Fugate)
A nightmarish AI experiment by Daniel Hanley wherein hundreds of old Garfield comic strips were scanned into a machine-learning algorithm designed to morph them into an animated sequence.
In short, Garfield on acid.
A rather beautiful depiction of the interconnected networks and cycles of a natural ecosystem, illustrated by Katie Scott, animated by James Paulley, and directed by Azuma Makoto.
Behold: the 1971 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV Speciale – the world’s first mid engined supercar, it debuted in 1966 and put Lamborghini up there with Ferrari. Of 764 built, only 150 were SVs – the ultimate iteration of the Miura with a 385bhp 4-litre V12.
This numbers-matching, fully documented car, which only ever had two owners, is presented in its original Oro Metallizzato paintwork after a Concours restoration.
Possibly the best surviving example of its type and yours for around €2,360,000.
An image captured by the crew of Apollo 14 in 1971 from their command module Kittyhawk. To wit:
With Earth’s sunlit crescent just peaking over the lunar horizon, the cratered terrain in the foreground is along the lunar farside. Of course, while orbiting the Moon, the crew could watch Earth rise and set, but the Earth hung stationary in the sky over Fra Mauro Base, their landing site on the lunar surface. Rock samples brought back by the Apollo 14 mission included a 20 pound rock nicknamed Big Bertha, later determined to contain a likely fragment of a meteorite from planet Earth.
(Image: Apollo 14, NASA, JSC, ASU (Image Reprocessing: Andy Saunders))
Only accept this fact and you will be set free. The School Of Life sez:
We’re often held back by a crippling fear that we can’t possibly do certain things because other people will judge us. But for those of us hemmed in by self-consciousness of this kind, there is very good news on the horizon. Amazingly, partly depressingly and partly redemptively, in reality, no one much cares…
