An arresting one-take short by Australian director Tom Noakes. To wit:
Why is a metalhead singing ‘Old MacDonald’ on the side of a rural highway?
Let’s rubberneck, shall we?
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Wel, as you can see, it’s a little beige in places but it’s taken a long time to find that out.
In 2015, multispectral images were sent back to Earth by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft as it shot by Pluto at 80,000km/h. But processing these (in order to approximate what the human eye might see) took time. To wit:
The result featured here, released three years after the raw data was acquired by New Horizons, is the highest resolution true colour image of Pluto ever taken. Visible in the image is the light-coloured, heart-shaped, Tombaugh Regio, with the unexpectedly smooth Sputnik Planitia, made of frozen nitrogen, filling its western lobe. New Horizons found the dwarf-planet to have a surprisingly complex surface composed of many regions having perceptibly different hues. In total, though, Pluto is mostly brown, with much of its muted colour originating from small amounts of surface methane energised by ultraviolet light from the Sun.
Full sized image here.
(Image: NASA, JHU APL, SwRI, Alex Parker)
Pete Drake’s 1964 country blues hit ‘Forever’ – featuring the sonic stylings of the ‘talk box’ applied to a steel guitar long before Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh made their regular guitars ‘talk’ in the 1970s.
But long before any of that, there was the Sonovox.
Because you’re not the unhinged designer of solutions for problems that don’t exist, Matt Benedetto.
The ongoing large scale work of French artists Ella & Pitr confined within the perimeters of vacant lots, rooftops and walls, often featuring the colours of the French flag.
The recumbent grannie (top three pictures) measures over 25,000 square meters and took eight days to complete.
Previously: Homeless
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A fascinating filmic short directed by Christian Stangl with score by Wolfgang Stangl combining thousands of images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft.
The sequences are digitally enhanced real-footage from the probe.
Behold: the SKAI zero emissions aircraft – a hydrogen-fuel cell powered electric, six-rotor VTOL with a 640km range (and a built-in airframe parachute).
Piloted either remotely, in person (from the plush leather appointed interior) or autonomously, the relative simplicity of its design means that the price point (yet to be announced as, despite the hype, the vehicle is still in development) will probably be somewhere in the region of a luxury car.
An adorable short by Emily Brundige in which a giant girl (voiced by Charlyne Yi) feels out of scale in her colourful little town, only to realise she takes up just the right amount of space.
Soon to be an animated series.