Colm tweetz:
Full page ‘Celtic Phoenix’ ad in the Irish Times.
Meanwhile…
Fine Gael’s Kate O’Connell – ‘being a landlord doesn’t affect my politics’. Also – ‘people are entitled to invest’, ‘we need to be careful about interfering with private property’ pic.twitter.com/LOe6jTs6jl
— Shrill by Mouth (@OrlaGleans) April 7, 2019
‘Is Eoghan Murphy the right person for the job? I don’t know’ (Sunday Independent)
A 1:12 scale, posable action figure of Bill Skarsgård’s Pennywise from the 2017 movie of Stephen King’s novel, IT.
As you’d expect, it comes complete with four horrifying interchangeable heads, eight hands, a balloon, a paper boat, a severed arm and a framed painting.
Available to pre-order (shipping from November 2019) from Mezco Toys for about €89.
Behold: the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Coupe, successor to the DB4 and, famously, James Bond’s grand tourer of choice. 4.0l straight six, magnesium alloy coachwork by Carrozzeria Touring Superleggera.
This is DB5 No.5 – the fifth ever built. With early 4 speed manual transmission and left hand drive, it was sold new in San Francisco and remains intact and in original condition after 55 years.
Coming under the hammer this summer.
An apartment building in Utrecht transformed into a giant bookcase (filled with the favourite reads of its residents) in a mural by Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed.
Thousands of stainless steel razor blades welded and linked together to form clothes, shoes and other pleasingly hazardous objects by Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi.
A one-sixth scale model of the Mk85 Iron Man suit that will appear in the upcoming Avengers: Endgame from Japanese action figure maker Hot Toys.
Fully posable with 30 points of articulation and a raft of accessories including hands, heads, chest plates and other (yet to be announced) movie-accurate gewgaws.
Available to pre-order for around €377 (+P&P)
Previously: Your Mk 37 Iron Man Armour Action Figure Has Arrived
A stunning CG short by Remi Devouassoud.
But what are we seeing? The cosmos? A human eye? Both?
You be the judge, ideally in fullscreen.
Behold: the 1967 Lamborghini 400 GT Coupe – a 4.0l, V12 evolution of the 350 GT and the company’s first four-seater.
This model, bought from the factory by the original owner who kept it for 50 years, is in remarkable condition with its original blue body paint, black interior and just 62,000km on the clock.
Currently accepting bids.
(From top: ’Lonely Tree’ by David Hall; ‘Red Velvet’ by Helen Bradshaw; ‘Invisible Paris’ by Pierre-Louis Ferrer; ‘Utah’ by Luciano Demasi; ‘Tectonic’ by Matthew Stuart Piper; ’Hong Kong: The Golden City’ by Tran Minh Dung; ‘Zabriskie’ by Beamie Young and ’The Watchman’ by Blake Rudis.)
Winners of an inaugural Infrared Photography contest organised by online store and e-learning site Kolari Vision which invited submissions thus:
What changes when we switch to infrared, and which things remain constant? What beauty lies in the light that our eyes can’t see?
See all the winners here.
Behold: NGC 7089, a giant star cluster also known as Messier 2 after the 18th century French astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier who first catalogued it. Prepare to feel small in the scheme of things. To wit:
After the Crab Nebula, M1… is the second entry in 18th century astronomer Charles Messier’s famous list of things which are not comets. M2 is one of the largest globular star clusters now known to roam the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Though Messier originally described it a nebula without stars, this stunning Hubble image [top pic, with details below] resolves stars across the central 40 light-years of M2. Its population of stars numbers close to 150,000, concentrated within a total diameter of around 175 light-years. About 55,000 light-years distant toward the constellation Aquarius, this ancient denizen of the Milky Way… is 13 billion years old.
Higher resolution image here.
