Sligo based filmmaker Paraic McGloughlin’s blistering hyper-edit video for ‘Someday’ by Dutch electronica duo Weval. Count the cuts (no, don’t, you’ll get a headache).
You may recall Paraic’s excellent kaleidoscopic abstract (shot from a road bridge in Sligo) for Max Cooper last year.
Full screen recommended.
Behold the 1963 Apollo 3500 GT Spider – Californian auto designer Milt Brown’s elegant retort to the all-conquering Ferrari and Aston Martin Grand Tourers of the 1950s and 60s.
Powered by a 3.5-litre Buick V8 with coachwork by Frank Reisner’s Torino-based Intermeccanica, only 42 original Apollos were ever made before production ceased and this – the first convertible – is one of them.
Up for auction soon (without reserve).
Musician Maurice Steeger performs – no, not ‘Mary Had A Little Lamb’ – but rather, Antonio Vivaldi’s challenging ‘Recorder Concerto RV 443‘ during a performance by the Capella Gabetta at the Hochrhein Musikfestival.
It’s all in the knees.
Synthol, or ‘site enhancement oil’ is a mixture of oil, lidocaine and alcohol injected directly into muscle tissue to artificially increase its size or shape.
Known as ‘fluffing’, its use is widespread in ‘bodybuilding’, though often taken to extremes (as above), extremely dangerous and occasionally fatal.
Zoolological sculptures by French artist Edouard Martinet: in which salvaged auto parts are screwed together to form the scales, eyes and exoskeletons of his creations.
Exhibiting this month at Bettina Von Armin Gallery in Paris, if you’re passing.
Previously: Moving Parts
One of a series of ‘futurist films’ by global design collective Universal Everything exploring human-machine collaboration through performance and emerging technologies. To wit:
A dancer teaches a series of three robots (in this case, Izzy) how to move. As the robots’ abilities develop from shaky mimicry to composed mastery, a physical dialogue emerges between man and machine – mimicking, balancing, challenging, competing, outmanoeuvring…
…killing all humans, etc.
Previously: More Than Human
Behold: stars forming in Lynd’s Dark Nebula (LDN 1251). To wit:
About 1,000 light-years away and drifting above the plane of our Milky Way galaxy, the dusty molecular cloud is part of a complex of dark nebulae mapped toward theCepheus flare region. Across the spectrum, astronomical explorations of the obscuring interstellar clouds reveal energetic shocks and outflows associated with newborn stars, including the telltale reddish glow from scattered Herbig-Haro objects seen in this sharp image. Distant background galaxies also lurk on the scene, visually buried behind the dusty expanse. The deep telescopic field of view imaged with broadband filters spans about two full moons on the sky, or 17 light-years at the estimated distance of LDN 1251.
(Image: Francesco Sferlazza, Franco Sgueglia, Astro Brallo)
