The adorable, slightly unnerving, big-eyed hybrids of Japanese artist Naoto Hattori.
Most a mere 7.5cm square, the highly detailed surreal acrylics reflect an obsession with eyes that has stayed with the artist since he was three years old. Sez he:
“When I closed my eyes, I could see a colourful eye like a mandala and it kept changing shape like a kaleidoscope. I drew hundreds of the eye images. Back then, I was thinking that it was something everyone could see.”
German educational design channel Kurzgesagt applies its trademark blend of pop science and animation to the last great frontier of the planet – the deep sea and its shadowy denizens.
Previously: The Egg
A new active marine suspension system from Australian engineering company Nauti-Craft that promises to mitigate (if not completely cancel out) the rolling effect of waves.
Behold: the all new Ferrari 812GTS – a front engined 789bhp 6.5l, V12 – the fastest production semi-convertible on the market.
No car will drive the wind through your hair or across your sunburnt scalp faster.
Yours for around €356,000.
Related: Novitech 812GT Superfast.
A short by Rune Spaans based on the brilliantly weird comic series ‘Weasel’ by Canadian artist Dave Cooper. David Cronenberg is a huge fan.
There’s abstracted boobies, wing-wangs and hoo-hahs galore. You’ll see.
What if your worst fear and your greatest love turn out to be the same thing? Lost in a dark forest, Eddy Table stumbles upon a mysterious girl and dangerous parasites. He should escape, but something keeps him from leaving.
Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) and Brent Spiner (Data) with the alien baby from 80s space lizard miniseries ‘V: The Final Battle’ on the set of ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’.
Too much? All right, everybody chill.
Behold: IC1805 – an emission nebula shaped rather like the human heart (after which it is named) glowing brightly with the red light emitted by its most prominent element: hydrogen. To wit:
The red glow and the larger shape are all powered by a small group of stars near the nebula’s centre. In the centre of the Heart Nebula are young stars from the open star cluster Melotte 15 that are eroding away several picturesque dust pillars with their energetic light and winds. The open cluster of stars contains a few bright stars nearly 50 times the mass of our Sun, many dim stars only a fraction of the mass of our Sun, and an absent microquasar that was expelled millions of years ago. The Heart Nebula is located about 7,500 light years away toward the constellation of Cassiopeia. Coincidentally, a small meteor was captured in the foreground during imaging and is visible above the dust pillars. At the top right is the companion Fishhead Nebula.
(Image: Bray Falls)
Never mind.
The ‘Grow Cable’ – a pulsating umbilical phone charger by Japanese designer Mio Izawa.
Yours for about €5,300 (incl. P+P).
