By Jason Beck.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the Donkervoort D8 GTO-JD70 – the culmination of 40 years of Lotus Seven emulating design by the Dutch sports car designer, released in honour of founder Joop Donkervoort’s 70th birthday,
Powered by a 415bhp turbocharged Audi inline-five and weighing less than 680kg, the JD70 will do 100km/h in less than 3 seconds which – along with advanced braking and handling – puts it in the top rank of supercars.
Only seventy will be made (naturally) and yours will cost €162,000.
Anonymous Berlin based photographer Cpt.Olf documents the Grim-Reaper taunting antics of equally secretive German pichação writer and ‘urban climber’ Paradox.
The video is a promo for this art book.
The mycelial landscapes of California-based photographer and ’mushroom and slime mould fan’ Allison Pollack.
Above: Mycena strobilinoidea and Clavulina; Leocarpus fragilis; Physarum; Crepidotus crocophyllus; Phillipsia domingensis; Willkommlangea reticulata; Ascocoryne sarcoides and Trichia; Didymium squamulosum; Cookeina sulcipes (‘Tropical Goblet’) and Physarum.
Boo!
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An apparently ghostly aurora recorded over northern Canada back in 2013. To wit:
Regardless of fantastical pareidolic interpretations, the pictured aurora had a typical green colour and was surely caused by the scientifically commonplace action of high energy particles from space interacting with oxygen in Earth’s upper atmosphere. In the image foreground, at the bottom, is a frozen Alexandra Falls, while evergreen trees cross the middle.
(Image: Yuichi Takasaka, TWAN)
