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Behold the 1962 Aston Martin DB4 Coupe – the best road going Aston of its day: stable, plush and fitted with the powerful GT inline 6 engine of its racing sister.
This car (one of only seven made with left hand drive), dressed in black with red Connolly Vaumol leather interior, comes complete with Gold Certification by Aston Martin Works, making it – arguably – the finest DB4 on the market.
Still accepting (presumably hefty) bids having failed to sell at auction this week.
A 1,000-piece Central Perk LEGO set (celebrating the 25th anniversary of the sitcom’s September 1994 launch) complete with minifigs of Ross, Rachel, Chandler, Monica, Joey, Phoebe and Gunther.
Available next month for €69.99.
As part of the ongoing $90 million renovation of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra’s new home at the historic Warner Grand Theatre, engineers were required to expand the old cinema stage area while retaining the building’s original 1931 back wall.
Which they did, by moving the whole thing back 10.6 meters – upright and intact – along a series of specially built tracks.
In fairness.
(Top pic: Brian Jacobson)
An award-winning short by Lightfarm Studios and Area 23 featuring a traumatic, blurry struggle in a strange world.
Alan Colohan twasks:
…why do unpackaged apples cost twice as much as plastic wrapped apples? This seriously impacts people’s ability to limit their use of single use plastics.
Anyone?
Aryah Nirenberg’s interesting (and more accurate) take on traditional time lapse videos of the night sky wherein the Heavens stay still and our relatively insignificant speck of a globe twirls beneath the galactic tapestry.
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Behold: the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus Boot Buggy – a new departure for the hypercar manufacturer owned by 1980s film director and financier James ‘The Exterminator’ Glickenhaus.
The Boot Buggy, inspired by Steve McQueen’s Baja Boot is available as a 460bhp road legal version and a heavy-duty 650bhp racer destined to compete at the Baja 1000.
Yours (in the two door configuration above ) for about €232,500.
Banknotes of the Britpocalypse – by caustic political satirist Wefail.
More Baconesque horrors here (if you dare).
