Incredible footage from American filmmaker Kraig Adams’ 100km solo trek through Hornstradir Nature Reserve in Northern Iceland.
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Behold: the Austro Daimler Bergmeister ADR 630 Shooting Grand.
Austro Daimler -which made its last car in 1934 – was a subsidiary of the company that would go on to become Mercedes Benz in 1889. 85 years on, it’s back with this hybrid electric, all wheel drive, bubble-roofed, gullwinged 1,181bhp estate capable of 0-100km/h in 2.5 seconds and a top speed of 330km/h.
So now.
Price to be announced.
‘Weird is relative’ in this stop-motion short by animation studio Mighty Oak. To wit:
On the night of a lunar eclipse, we uncover the sweet, salacious, and spooky secrets of a small town. From a pigtailed psychopath to naughty nuns and everything in between…
Warning: contains felted wing-wangs, plushie hoo-hah action and wanton puppet situations.
A recently unearthed VHS tape by YouTube scamps SquirrelMonkey that proves we live on a pyramid shaped planet created by aliens, controlled from a secret Apple HQ at the apex.
Like you didn’t already suspect that.
Wake up sheeple.
Behold: G292.0+1.8 – a fine young supernova 20,000 light years away toward the southern constellation Centaurus. So what are we looking at here?
Massive stars spend their brief lives furiously burning nuclear fuel. Through fusion at extreme temperatures and densities surrounding the stellar core, nuclei of light elements like Hydrogen and Helium are combined to heavier elements like Carbon, Oxygen, etc. in a progression which ends with Iron. So a supernova explosion, a massive star’s inevitable and spectacular demise, blasts back into space debris enriched in heavier elements to be incorporated into other stars and planets and people. This detailed false-colour x-ray image from the orbiting Chandra Observatory shows such a hot, expanding stellar debris cloud about 36 light-years across. […] Light from the inital supernova explosion reached Earth an estimated 1,600 years ago. Bluish colors highlight filaments of the mulitmillion degree gas which are exceptionally rich in Oxygen, Neon, and Magnesium. This enriching supernova also produced a pulsar in its aftermath, a rotating neutron star remnant of the collapsed stellar core. The stunning image was released as part of the 20th anniversary celebration of the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
(Image: NASA/CXC/SAO)
The result of an attempt by Canadian animator Yves Paradis to create one unscripted, improvised scene every week over the course of a year.
Pleasingly rendered in modern minimal style, the simple concept of a character pushing a big cube through the desert transforms into an increasingly complex sci-fi adventure.
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The dissolution of a variety of pills and capsules captured in time-lapse by Ben Ouaniche.
Not a precise simulacrum of what happens in your stomach acid, but not far off.
More of his time lapse experiments here.
An epic battle of wills between two superhumans plays out in this multi award-winning 2018 short by Knock Knock Animation.
Short, sweet, no doubt inspired by ‘The Incredibles’ but not hiding it.
Behold: the glowing gases and dust clouds of IC1795, a star forming region 6000 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cassiopeia. To wit:
The nebula’s colours were created by adopting the Hubble color palette for mapping narrow emission from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulphur atoms to blue, green and red colours, and further blending the data with images of the region recorded through broadband filters. Not far on the sky from the famous Double Star Cluster in Perseus, IC 1795 is itself located next to IC 1805, the Heart Nebula, as part of a complex of star forming regions that lie at the edge of a large molecular cloud. Located just over 6,000 light-years away, the larger star forming complex sprawls along the Perseus spiral arm of our Milky Way Galaxy. At that distance, this picture would span about 70 light-years across IC 1795.
(Image: Alan Pham)
https://vimeo.com/243128756
Freestyle MTB rider Matt Jones showcases his best moves in a partially rotoscoped video (imagining the thoughts going through his head as he perfects each trick).