A graduation short by students of Supinfocom Rubika Valenciennes telling the strange tale of Finn – a kid with glowing ‘stains’ on his body who finds common ground with a group of fellow outcasts.
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Behold: the 1975 Lamborghini Urraco P250 – a direct competitor of the Ferrari Dino and Maserati Merak back in the 1970s, the 217bhp V8 is one of the lesser known Lambos, hence the unusually modest price tag of this immaculately restored coupe.
Yours for just under €55,000.
It’s hard to visualise what our little corner of the Universe looks like, what with galaxies being so spread out and our own one blocking quite a lot of the distant sky from us. Well, now there’s a map, of sorts. To wit:
…using large-scale galaxy motions to infer what massive objects must be gravitating in the nearby universe, the featured map, spanning over 600 million light years on a side, shows that our Milky Way Galaxy is on the edge of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, which is connected to the Great Attractor — an even larger grouping of galaxies. Also nearby are the massive Coma Cluster and the extensive Perseus-Pisces Supercluster. Conversely, we are also on the edge of huge region nearly empty of galaxies known as the Local Void. The repulsive push by the Local Void combined with the gravitational pull toward the elevated galaxy density on the other side of the sky explains part of the mysteriously high speed our Galaxy has relative to the cosmic microwave background — but not all.
To explore the local universe yourself, as determined by Cosmicflows-3, you are invited to zoom in and spin around this interactive 3D visualization.
(Image: R. Brent Tully (U. Hawaii) et al.)
A selection of horrible finds by Weatherford, Texas real estate agent Venessa Van Winkle and her colleagues.
A short by Slovenian animator Dusan Kastelic that takes the phrase ‘to think outside the box’ and reverses it. To wit:
This is a film about such a box and the flat-headed creatures that live inside of it.
The monstrous and yet strangely adorable, and then simultaneously unnerving and appealing taxidermies of Welsh artist Adele Morse, who hasn’t looked back since her ‘Stoned Fox’ (top pic) went viral in Russia a few years ago.
Behold: two detailed views of Mimas, one of the major moons of Saturn. To wit:
Peering from the shadows, the Saturn-facing hemisphere of Mimas lies in near darkness alongside a dramatic sunlit crescent. The mosaic was captured near the Cassini spacecraft’s final close approach on January 30, 2017. Cassini’s camera was pointed in a nearly sunward direction only 45,000 kilometres from Mimas.
The result is one of the highest resolution views of the icy, crater-pocked, 400 kilometre diameter moon. An enhanced version better reveals the Saturn-facing hemisphere of the synchronously rotating moon lit by sunlight reflected from Saturn itself. Other Cassini images of Mimas include the small moon’s large and ominous Herschel Crater.
(Image: Cassini Imaging Team, SSI, JPL, ESA, NASA)
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Master Lego builder Wolf Zipp showcases his giant working model of the SLJ900/32 Wowjoint – a megamachine designed to transport and place large bridge sections, complete with pneumatic lifts, omnidirectional wheels and a cantilever system.
Nya, Maru, and Mugi – the three Scottish Fold cats of Japanese couple Ryo and Hiromo Yamazaki – each of whom has a selection of stylist hats made from their own shed fur.
The owl-eyed, slightly alarmed expression is a common feature of the breed as opposed to a reaction to the custom headgear.