A short by Darcy Prendergast in response to the Australian bushfire crisis. To wit:
…a rallying cry for hope, in a country increasingly scarce of it.
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In a world of paywalls and monetised content, fourteen Parisian museums including the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks by Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others freely available to the public via its collections portal. To wit:
Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image. Making this data available guarantees that our digital files can be freely accessed and reused by anyone or everyone, without any technical, legal or financial restraints, whether for commercial use or not,
Allez les musées!
Above (from top): Claude Monet’s “Soleil couchant sur la Seine à Lavacourt, effet d’hiver” (1880); Pierre Bonnard’s “Nu dans le bain” (1936); Paul Cézanne’s “Portrait d’Ambroise Vollard” (1899) and Eugène Atget’s “Coin des rues de Seine et de l’Echaudé, 6ème arrondissement, Paris” (1911).
Behold: cosmic dust clouds and young, energetic stars on the northern border of Corona Australis. To wit:
The dust clouds effectively block light from more distant background stars in the Milky Way. But the striking complex of reflection nebulae cataloged as NGC 6726, 6727, and IC 4812 produce a characteristic blue color as light from the region’s young hot stars is reflected by the cosmic dust. The dust also obscures from view stars still in the process of formation. At the left, smaller yellowish nebula NGC 6729 bends around young variable star R Coronae Australis. Just below it, glowing arcs and loops shocked by outflows from embedded newborn stars are identified as Herbig-Haro objects. On the sky this field of view spans about 1 degree. That corresponds to almost 9 light-years at the estimated distance of the nearby star forming region.
(Image: CHART32 Team, Processing – Johannes Schedler)
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Behold: the Officina Armare Project Centauro – a 110 meter hyper yacht with space for 14 passengers featuring an entertainment area, indoor pool and diving station, hot tub, and an observation lounge, beach club, spa, sauna and hammam.
Two MTU engines and steerable waterjets give a top speed of 20 knots and a cruising speed of 18 knots.
Price on application.
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Håkon Anton Fagerås is a #Norwegian #sculptor based in #Italy, and here you can watch him working on a #marble# pillow which creates a lovely juxtaposition in materials. The pillow was part of his 'Down' series, which you can see on his website. pic.twitter.com/qhtzNmwGfG
— Hole & Corner (@Hole_and_Corner) September 26, 2018
Extraordinarily realistic ‘pillows’ hewn from solid marble with a pneumatic hammer and other carving tools by Norwegian sculptor Håkon Anton Fagerås.
More of his work here.
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Early next year, Toyota plans to start construction of a ‘prototype city of the future’ at a 175 acre site at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan. Details are a little fuzzy at present but according to the press release:
The city is planned to be fully sustainable, with buildings made mostly of wood to minimize the carbon footprint, using traditional Japanese wood joinery, combined with robotic production methods. The rooftops will be covered in photo-voltaic panels to generate solar power in addition to power generated by hydrogen fuel cells. Toyota plans to weave in the outdoors throughout the city, with native vegetation and hydroponics.