Ah here you’ll have someone’s eye out with that.
Rock stars of the 1960s and 70s – unencumbered and occasionally very encumbered indeed.
Author Archives: Chompsky
Blocky dioramas featuring Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol at work in their studios by LEGO fanatic Han Sbrickstein.
Hot Wheels
at
Behold: the BMW Vantablack X6 – a regular BMW X6 SUV with a carbon nanotube paint job. Tricked out by Surrey NanoSystems in kidney-grille enhancing, reflection-suppressing, light-gobbling Vantablack, the car will debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.
Darker’n a black steer’s tookus on a moonless prairie night.
Maybe not that dark.
Of course you have. But not like this.
Behold: a spectacular composite ‘close-up’ of the spiral galaxy Messier 61 combining images from the Hubble Space Telescope, he European Southern Observatory and other smaller telescopes on Earth. To wit:
A mere 55 million light-years away in the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, M61 is also known as NGC 4303. It’s considered to be an example of a barred spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way. Like other spiral galaxies, M61 also features sweeping spiral arms, cosmic dust lanes, pinkish star forming regions, and young blue star clusters. The bright galactic core is offset to the left in this 50 thousand light-year wide close-up.
Full sized image here.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble, ESO, Amateur Data; Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler & Roberto Colombari)
Wired
at
The chaotic wiring poles of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. Messily repaired and overloaded with layers of cable for decades (the government has promised to phase them out by 2022) they’ve been captured for posterity as a metaphor for the country’s ‘entangled reality’ by local photographer Sounak Das.
How come the sky near the star Antares and the Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex is so dusty and colourful? Who hasn’t wondered that? No one hasn’t. To wit:
The colours result from a mixture of objects and processes. Fine dust illuminated from the front by starlight produces blue reflection nebulae. Gaseous clouds whose atoms are excited by ultraviolet starlight produce reddish emission nebulae. Backlit dust clouds block starlight and so appear dark. Antares, a red supergiant and one of the brighter stars in the night sky, lights up the yellow-red clouds on the lower left of the featured image. Rho Ophiuchi lies at the center of the blue nebula near the top. The distant globular cluster M4 is visible to the right of Antares. These star clouds are even more colorful than humans can see, emitting light across the electromagnetic spectrum.
(Image: David McGarvey)
A 34 year old Robert Plant signing a copy of his band’s iconic debut album Led Zeppelin (1968) for a member of the rozzing community in 1982.
Islandia
at
A masterful aerial homage to the extraordinary natural landscapes of Iceland by Russian filmmaker Vadim Sherbakov.
A 2016 graduation short by Terri Matthews – just when you though International Dog Day was over. Contains animated wing-wangs and animated wing-wang related situations. To wit:
Malcolm Fetcher is a neurotic, middle-aged teacher lost in a dull marriage with his wife of twenty years, Beverly. As he faces an all-consuming identity crisis, their marriage disintegrates and he is forced to express a deep, hidden desire…