A mural adapted to the architecture at ‘Poet’s Corner’ in west London by artist Fin DAC painted for the Acton Unframed art project .
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8-Bit Cats
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A fascinating visual timeline from the American Museum Of Natural History tracing the evolution of human beings from the moment we branched off from chimpanzees.
Reflective
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German photographer Kara-a’s macro photographs of various backgrounds reflected in droplets of water, each one (bar one) poised on a dandelion pappus.
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Pity poor NGC 7714: a galaxy stretched and distorted by a recent collision with neighbouring galaxy NGC 7715. To wit:
This smaller neighbour, NGC 7715, situated off to the left of the featured frame, is thought to have charged right through NGC 7714. Observations indicate that the golden ring pictured is composed of millions of older Sun-like stars that are likely co-moving with the interior bluer stars. In contrast, the bright centre of NGC 7714 appears to be undergoing a burst of new star formation. The featured image was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7714 is located about 130 million light years away toward the constellation of the Two Fish (Pisces). The interactions between these galaxies likely started about 150 million years ago and should continue for several hundred million years more, after which a single central galaxy may result.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Legacy Archive)
zefrank presents deinopsis, the ‘Ogre-Faced’ Spider, or ‘Margaret’.
You may know her in-law from this cut-scene on ‘I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here’
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A mixed media rite de passage short in which a teenager becomes a man in a savage world ruled by a god-whale (we’ve all been though it).
A pleasing chunk of retro-futurism by Spanish director Antoni Sendra drawing heavily on the lurid halftone aesthetic of 1970s fantasy comics.
Doughty double-amputee skateboarder Felipe Nunes goes up against his nemesis – a 360° loop that would test the skills of any able-bodied skater.
Do Not Erase
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Some of the fruits of a year long project by photographer and professor Jessica Wynne to capture the thought processes (and physical efforts) of mathematicians via their chalkboard workings-out.
The entire set will be published as a Princeton University Press book next year.