Behold: the 1973 Ferrari Dino 246GTS convertible: originally Giallo Fly yellow over a grey interior, refinished in black, with the original motor replaced by a period-correct block from another 246 and complete with the all important Ferrari Classiche certification.
Yours for €400,000+.
Another scrolling size comparison from Metaball Studios – this time, buildings and superstructures from TV, games and film.
Previously: Can You Imagine?
A nifty series of 90°-flipped ‘Inception’-style travel ads for United Airlines (Australia) created by Cream Electric Art.
Director Jonathan Miller’s fascinating documentary profile of ultra-Orthodox Jewish comic David Finklestein is the tale of a man looking to find his place in an alien world and using jokes as a means to do that.
Struggling to balance his love of stand-up with his strict religious lifestyle, Finklestein is forced to make a choice between his passion and his community.
He’s funny. You’ll like him.
Behold: the FT750-26 and FT750-20, two e-bikes from the California Scooter Company.
A 750-watt hub motor gives a top speed of 32km/h and 64km of range with a full charge of the 13.6-Ah battery. The two models have slightly different frame sizes with 26” and 20” tyres respectively, but both have an LED status display on the handlebar, fat Kenda tyres and 10cm of travel on the telescopic front fork.
Yours for about €1,520.
UPDATE: CSC don’t ship electric bicycles outside of the US so you’d have to make some class of alternative arrangement if you want one. (Thanks Michael)
Behold: the interstellar bow wave of ‘runaway’ star Zeta Ophiuchi, seen here in infrared. To wit:
In the false-colour view, bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the centre of the frame, moving toward the left at 24 kilometres per second. Its strong stellar wind precedes it, compressing and heating the dusty interstellar material and shaping the curved shock front. What set this star in motion? Zeta Oph was likely once a member of a binary star system, its companion star was more massive and hence shorter lived. When the companion exploded as a supernova catastrophically losing mass, Zeta Oph was flung out of the system. About 460 light-years away, Zeta Oph is 65,000 times more luminous than the Sun and would be one of the brighter stars in the sky if it weren’t surrounded by obscuring dust. The image spans about 1.5 degrees or 12 light-years at the estimated distance of Zeta Ophiuchi. Last week, NASA placed the Spitzer Space Telescope in safe mode, ending its 16 successful years of studying our universe.
(Image: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Spitzer Space Telescope)
Taking a break from his usual forays into the natural world, zefrank focuses on the compulsions, quirks, dark epiphanies and daily anxieties of human office workers.
Episode 4 has been a long time coming.
Previously: True Facts About Elsa (And Her Stinky Friends)
