‘Memory Palace’ by London based artist and stage designer Ed Devlin – a huge bamboo carved landscape reflected by large scale mirrors at Pitzhanger Gallery in London.
Visitors are invited to roam around a 3D history map featuring representations of dozens of momentous events from the first cave paintings to Copernicus’ heliocentric map of the universe.
Mind your step.
Last evening. Location unspecified.
Barry Clancy tweets:
€29 & €24 for flavoured water? We’re back to the good times baby!
Sam Gainsborough’s excellent live action/stop motion short morphs clay faces onto human bodies to tell the story of a man fearing isolation but struggling to socialise or relate to his family. Of the warping rippling mugs of his protagonist and supporting cast (made from 450kg of Plasticine) Gainsborough sez:
He feels that his parents are these emotionless rock-like characters so they’re animated to look like gargoyles. Whereas he sees everyone else in the world as being effortlessly happy so they’re animated fluidly with lots of colour. But at the end of the day the feelings he has are false, what lies underneath that is reality, real people (with painted hands for some reason!).
And here’s how he did it.
Behold: the 1995 Ferrari F50 Berlinetta Prototipo – successor to the F40 and the showpiece of Ferrari’s F1 know-how in street legal form.
Twenty five years ago, this windswept, carbon fibre, 500bhp, 4.7-litre, V12 racer had a top speed of 325km/h, accelerating from 0-100km/h in 3.9 seconds.
349 were made but this was the first.
Fully documented and road tested by a succession of Ferrari drivers including Niki Lauda, it’s up for auction next month.
A compilation by Polish video editor nama hecc isolating all the samples used on the Beastie Boys’ second studio album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ (1989).
And not just that. Also, mixing footage of the original artist’s work, where the sample came from and where in the songs the samples were used.
Like this.
Neutron stars are the collapsed cores of stars which – prior to supernova – had the mass of between 10 and 29 times our own sun. They’re only about 10km in diameter which. In cosmic terms, is very, very small indeed. To wit:
Previously these city-sized stars were too small and too far away to resolve. Recently, however, the first maps of the locations and sizes of hotspots on a neutron star’s surface have been made by carefully modeling how the rapid spin makes the star’s X-ray brightness rise and fall. Based on a leading model, an illustrative map of pulsar J0030+0451‘s hotspots is pictured, with the rest of the star’s surface filled in with a false patchy blue. J0030 spins once every 0.0049 seconds and is located about 1000 light years away. The map was computed from data taken by NASA’s Neutron star Interior Composition ExploreR (NICER) X-ray telescope attached to the International Space Station. The computed locations of these hotspots is surprising and not well understood. Because the gravitational lensing effect of neutron stars is so strong, J0300 displays more than half of its surface toward the Earth. Studying the appearance of pulsars like J0030 allows accurate estimates of the neutron star‘s mass, radius, and the internal physics that keeps the star from imploding into a black hole.
Six spectacular locations Iincluding New Zealand South Africa and Colombia in the company of riders Rob Warner, Matt Jones, Ollie Wilkins, and Finn Lies.
Prepare for whooping.
Behold: the 1968 Lamborghini Espada, or rather a wonderful/sacrilegious rat-rod of the rare Marcello Gandini-designed supercar by French modder Danton Art Kustoms.
Stretched, scooped and exposed but retaining the chassis and 325hp 3.9L 60-degree V12 engine of the donor car.
Yours for €225,000.
The Happy Broadcast by Mauro Gatti – his antidote to negative news and “the vitriolic rhetoric that pervades our media”.
Fill up on positivity here.
