This year’s nativity scene at Claremont Methodist church in Los Angeles.
The ‘most well-known refugee family in the world’, according to Pastor Karen Clark Ristine, caged and isolated to highlight both California’s homeless crisis and the separation of migrant children at the US/Mexico border.
Ingrid Casey tweets:
…my pal @clairemurphyart has made an incredible installation, reflecting on the Essex lorry victims, as part of @galerie_inspire winter group show this Thursday, 6pm, Lwr Gardiner St. How can we get some press for it.
Ask and you shall receive.
A minimalist short by Blue Zoo Animation visualises the common frustrations inherent in brainstorming by committee.
Behold: the 1965 Ferrari 275 GTS Convertible – a rare classic indeed.
Powered by the legendary 3.3 Columbo V12, designed by Pininfarina and originally purchased by by Prince Abdallah Moulay, the brother of King Hassan II of Morocco, it was one of only 200 made. Carefully maintained by subsequent owners in Germany and the US, the car has been fully restored and returned to its spectacular original colour.
Yours (with a modest 96,500km on the clock) for a cool €1.45 million.
Ever get the feeling that things are not as they should be?
Here’s German educational design studio Kurzgesagt with the cure. To wit:
In this video we want to talk about one of the strongest predictors of how happy people are, how easily they make friends and how good they are at dealing with hardship. An antidote against dissatisfaction so to speak: Gratitude.
Previously: Space Catapult
Figures from classical paintings deftly inserted into the modern world by Ukrainian artist Alexei Kondakov.
Related: Second Life (similar works by French artist Blase)
What is this? a meteor shower streaming toward us from a point source in the sky? Well, yes – in a way. To wit:
When the Earth crosses a stream of Sun-orbiting meteors, these meteors appear to come from the direction of the stream — with the directional point called the radiant. An example occurs every mid-December for the Geminids meteor shower, as apparent in the featured image. Recorded near the shower’s peak in 2013, the featured skyscape captures Gemini’s shooting stars in a four-hour composite from the dark skies of the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. In the foreground the 2.5-meter du Pont Telescope is visible as well as the 1-meter SWOPE telescope. The skies beyond the meteors are highlighted by Jupiter, seen as the bright spot near the image center, the central band of our Milky Way Galaxy, seen vertically on the image left, and the pinkish Orion Nebula on the far left. Dust swept up from the orbit of active asteroid 3200 Phaethon, Gemini’s meteors enter the atmosphere traveling at about 22 kilometers per second. The 2019 Geminid meteor shower peaks again this coming weekend.
(Image: Yuri Beletsky (Carnegie Las Campanas Observatory, TWAN)
The Deep Sea: a fun web toy where you can scroll down through the living depths of marine species from the shallows to the Challenger Deep.
Explore it here.
Behold: the T.One from California based electric vehicle manufacturer Neuron – a multifunctional base designed to accommodate a range of uses from crew cab and pickup to van and tow truck. The interior is similarly modular with 4 and 6-seat passenger options or a pleasing dual rear seat and central driving position.
Still at the prototype stage but already taking advance orders.
An outstanding short animated in minimalist pen and ink by Randall Christopher telling the story of the chase and final capture in 1960 of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann by the Mossad agent Zvi Aharoni.
The (dramatically) dry reality of a dogged manhunt turned into a spy thriller.
