A plush lumbar crúibín cushion?
Oh, go on then.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/C by Scaglietti – the car built to replace the legendary 250 series.
Unlike the road-going version GTB, the GTB/C (the ‘C’ stands for ‘Competizione’) was a lightweight steel and aluminium racer of which only 12 were made.
A piece of Ferrari racing history with just 129,000 km on the clock.
Price on request (serious buyers won’t ask).
Drop A Pin
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An enamel pin business born of a love of architecture – some of the world’s most iconic building façades recreated in pleasing minimalist 2D pin brooches.
Above: Geisel Library, California; Pagoda House, Tel Aviv; Eames House, California; Pantheon, Italy; Villa Savoye, France; clockwise from top left: Guaranty Building, Buffalo NY; VitraHaus, Germany; Notre Dame, Paris; house on Rothschild Boulevard, Tel Aviv and Nakagin Capsule Tower, Tokyo.
Currently crowdfunding and accepting advance orders (Busáras, the Casino at Marino, Supemac’s in Moate and so forth) for the façades of your choice
Set Dressing
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Soaring
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The ultra sleek futurescapes of Austrian digital artists Peter Olschinsky and Verena Weiss.
Pride Falls
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An extraordinary phenomenon captured in November 2017 at Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, California by photographer Greg Harlow. who explains of it:
I spent over 3 months total in Yosemite last year and just got lucky.
Here’s the entire sequence in time-lapse.
The impressive 2017 debut of LA-based Irish director Paul Horan. To wit:
In a small Irish town where secrets are rare, a local man goes to church to confess his.
Dormammu!
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No, it’s an equally strange lunar corona over Turin. To wit:
Rings like this will sometimes appear when the Moon is seen through thin clouds. The effect is created by the quantum mechanical diffraction of light around individual, similarly-sized water droplets in an intervening but mostly-transparent cloud. Since light of different colors has different wavelengths, each color diffracts differently. Lunar Coronae are one of the few quantum mechanical colour effects that can be easily seen with the unaided eye. The featured lunar corona was captured around full Moon above Turin, Italy in 2014. Similar coronae that form around the Sun are usually harder to see because of the Sun’s great brightness.
Hot Keels
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Behold: the Vanqraft VQ16 from Vanquish Yachts – a 4.9 metre fibreglass jet ski-speedboat hybrid, propelled by a 1.8L, 200bhp Yamaha engine with an impressive top speed of 40 knots in standard model or 50 in the supercharged Veloce version.
Yours for about €80,000.