A collaboration between light artist Christopher Bauder and musician Kangding Ray, SKALAR (named after a psychoevolutionary theory about human perception and emotion by American psychologist Robert Plutchik, but you knew that) is an art installation that uses its suspended structure and pulsing rhythms to create an immersive live concert.
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Samuel Beckett and Leah Kenny, apparently.
Anyone?
(Pix: Oisín Kane)
Everything you ever wanted to know about the ‘floating city’ – a thorough grounding directed by Nicolò Scibilia for Insula Spa, an operational division of Venice Municipality. To wit:
Venice is not just a stage set. It is also a city with a resident population, which has productive activities, transportation and services. But how does the “Venice system” work? How do the tides in the lagoon behave? How are the canals formed? And the embankments? What’s under the buildings?
Behold: the 1967 Ferrari 330 GTC Zagato Coupe – literally created by accident.
When the owner of an original Ferrari 330 GTC crashed it in 1972, he returned the car to US Ferrari importer Luigi Chinetti for repairs. Chinetti sent the car to Italy where renowned Italian coachbuilder Zagato created all-new angular bodywork (unlike any Ferrari at that time) fitted a Targa top and subsequently showcased the car at the 1974 Geneva International Auto Show.
Hence, this singular piece of Ferrari-Zagato automotive history – known as the ‘Zagato Convertibile’ – one of a kind and up for auction at Villa Erba next month.
The charming Tim from Grand Illusions presents an amusing collection of objects that either refer to or contradict their nature, ie. a can opener stored inside a can, an error label that apologises for its own existence and so forth.
Behold: the massive stars, dust mountains and energetic lights of one of the most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group Of Galaxies, aka N11. To wit:
…the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC). The featured image was taken for scientific purposes by the Hubble Space Telescope and reprocessed for artistry by an amateur to win a Hubble’s Hidden Treasures competition. Although the section imaged above is known as NGC 1763, the entire N11 emission nebula is second in LMC size only to the Tarantula Nebula. Compact globules of dark dusthousing emerging young stars are also visible around the image. A new study of variable stars in the LMC with Hubble has helped to recalibrate the distance scale of the observable universe, but resulted in a slightly different scale than found using the pervasive cosmic microwave background.
(Image: NASA, ESA; Josh Lake)
The ongoing store interventions of Jeff ‘Obvious Plant’ Wysaski.
And if this is your thing, you may also like the similarly disruptive products of a much older Japanese site, Chindogu.
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If Star Wars isn’t your thing, you’ll be wanting to move right along.
Otherwise, enjoy 12 minutes of Kylo Ren dissecting the recent Rise Of Skywalker teaser trailer courtesy of Auralnauts.
A quietly poignant arrangement of Pink Floyd’s Goodbye Blue Sky with lead, rhythm and bass effortlessly combined on harp guitar by the talented Jamie Dupuis.
