Create a ridgeline map of any terrain on Earth (in the style of Joy Division’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ album cover) with Andrei Kashcha’s Peak Map tool.
Explore it here.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Another animated journey through the mind of animator Jake Fried, who creates by building up layers of ink and correction fluid – a single drawing scanned and reworked hundreds of times.
Previously: Brainwave
Triangulum
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Behold: the face-on spiral of M33, aka the Pinwheel Galaxy, aka The Triangulum Galaxy. To wit:
M33 is over 50,000 light-years in diameter, third largest in the Local Group of galaxies after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), and our own Milky Way. About 3 million light-years from the Milky Way, M33 is itself thought to be a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy and astronomers in these two galaxies would likely have spectacular views of each other’s grand spiral star systems. As for the view from planet Earth, this sharp image shows off M33’s blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions along the galaxy’s loosely wound spiral arms. In fact, the cavernous NGC 604 is the brightest star forming region, seen here at about the 7 o’clock position from the galaxy center. Like M31, M33’s population of well-measured variable stars have helped make this nearby spiral a cosmic yardstick for establishing the distance scale of the Universe.
(Image: Rui Liao)
A (fully licensed) screen print inspired by that Stanley Kubrick film by Bartosz Kosowski.
Behold: the rippling dust and gas lanes of IC405 – the Flaming Star Nebula. To wit:
The orange and purple colours of the nebula are present in different regions and are created by different processes. The bright star AE Aurigae, visible toward the image left, is so hot it is blue, emitting light so energetic it knocks electrons away from surrounding gas. When a proton recaptures an electron, red light is frequently emitted (depicted here in orange). The purple region’s colour is a mix of this red light and blue light emitted by AE Aurigae but reflected to us by surrounding dust. The two regions are referred to as emission nebula and reflection nebula, respectively. Pictured here in the Hubble color palette, the Flaming Star Nebula, officially known as IC 405, lies about 1500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of the Charioteer (Auriga).
(Image: Eric Coles and Mel Helm)
The beautifully handwritten, meticulously illustrated notebooks of author, artist and former aeronautical engineer José Naranja.
The mixed media journals, incorporating labels and postage stamps, document his ongoing, enviable globetrotting – each page themed around an experience or a thought he had while travelling through the area featured.
Isn’t it well for some?
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Vision S Sedan – the first car from Sony. The Sony DriveMan, if you will.
Due to debut this week at CES2020 in Las Vegas, the all electric vehicle has (as you’d expect from the electronics giant) all manner of integrated tech including radar, LIDAR, ultrasonic sensors and a slew of entertainment systems.
Price as yet unannounced.
The Lads
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A cover of The Beatles’ ‘Michelle’ (1965) played on traditional Korean gayageum by Luna Lee.
Previously: The Killing Moon (On Gayageum)