Wooden sculptures by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
The eyes follow you around the room, etc.
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Olga Wehrly twasks:
@Aldi_Ireland@AldiUK Are you for REAL? Cupcake cases with allergy warnings? This is grossly irresponsible – how can these not be a complete danger? How would allergic people know to avoid these?
A Rubik’s Cube solving robot built by MIT mechanical engineering student Ben Katz and electrical engineering student Jared Di Carlo of MIT.
Don’t blink as the machine solves the puzzle in a world record beating 0.38 seconds: first in real time, then at 0.25x speed, in case you missed it, then 0.003x speed, in case you missed that.
Behold: spiral galaxy NGC 4921 in the constellation Coma Berenices – estimated to be about 320 million light years away from us. Pale and interesting 320 million years ago, probably much the same today. To wit:
The magnificent spiral NGC 4921 has been informally dubbed anaemic because of its low rate of star formation and low surface brightness. Visible in the featured image are, from the center, a bright nucleus, a bright central bar, a prominent ring of dark dust, blue clusters of recently formed stars, several smaller companion galaxies, unrelated galaxies in the far distant universe, and unrelated stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
(Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright: Kem Cook (LLNL) & Leo Shatz)
A short film by Stefan Hunt in which a man encounters a talking tree, assuming some greater significance to the fact that it has chosen to address him.
Ah, the 1970s – a decade when grooming, coiffure, bodily hygiene and so forth was no longer the preserve of women.
These – plastered to the walls of male hair salons everywhere – were the overgrown, overblown now-try-it-on-your-own styles that men aspired to.
May we never see their like again.
MORE: The Most Romantic Period For Men’s Hairstyles (eatliver)
A bamboozling immersion in the busy scooter-filled streets of Taiwan by Tokyo based filmmaker Hiroshi Kondo, who specialises in capturing the endless motion of high density urban environments.
Full screen and sound up for optimal enjoyment.
More of his work here.