A map of the first (collectively innuendo-laden) word(s) of countries’ national anthems from the @europemaps Insta.
NB: contains all manner of debatable translations and fact-bait, as you’ll see from comments.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Gene…Wilder
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A well illustrated homage to the undisputed grand-master of the comedic pause by video editor Rishi Kaneria.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1973 Iso Grifo GL Series II Coupe designed by former refrigerator maker Renzo Rivolta whose company famously produced the adorable 1950s Isetta microcar.
This particular mint condition Iso Grifo (one of 37 fitted with a powerful Ford Cleveland V8 engine) has been in the possession of the original owner’s family since delivery.
Yours for €254,000.
Behold: the night side of Pluto, captured by the New Horizons spacecraft as it flew past in July 2015. Backlighting is provided by Sol – some 4.9 billion kilometres (4.5 light hours) in the distance.
The spacecraft was at a range of some 21,000 kilometers from Pluto, about 19 minutes after its closest approach. A denizen of the Kuiper Belt in dramatic silhouette, the image also reveals Pluto’s tenuous, surprisingly complex layers of hazy atmosphere. The crescent twilight landscape near the top of the frame includes southern areas of nitrogen ice plains now formally known as Sputnik Planitia and rugged mountains of water-ice in the Norgay Montes.
(Image: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute )
1980
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Chicago mashup crew The Hood Internet continue their nostalgic tune-blendathon with a deftly conflated tribute to fifty hits from 1980.
Previously: 1979
Assemblages of discarded ceramic by Dutch sculptor Bouke de Vries: shattered vases contained within a clear glass vessels, porcelain shards as the thorns on a rose, broken blue willow plates reformed into a map of China.
A dizzying BAFTA-nominated short by former printmaker Elizabeth Hobbs about Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka – wounded physically in the First World War and emotionally in the course of a stormy love affair preceding it.
Hobbs imagines Kokoska’s feverish flashbacks using ink applied to A5 paper, animated while still wet.
A new miniature kinetic sculpture from Russian artist Roman Butin, who adds brilliant, elaborate hand-engraved designs and mechanisms to vintage coins.
Previously: Mechanical Coins