A new shapeshifting short by Universal Everything and Hyundai Motorstudio in which – instead of the shifting textures and colours of previous work – light and energy are to the fore (presumably a metaphor for Hyundai’s efforts in green energy and sustainable design).
Previously: Transfiguration
Friday.
David Costello tweets:
About 2km out from the Sandymount promenade this afternoon as low tide approached, the perfect place to watch the Spring showers pass and social distance.
Later…
Clouds over the canal. Sally’s Bridge, Dublin
(Thanks Colum Cronin)
Behold: the Segway APEX H2 – production-ready concept electric motorcycle scheduled for release in 2023. Powered by a hybrid electric-hydrogen powertrain with swappable replacement hydrogen canisters, the Tron-Like APEX has a minimalistic mono-posto tail, wide-section tires, single-sided swing-arm and hub-center-steered single-sided front-end.
It will do 0-100km/h in less than 4 seconds with a top speed of 150km/h.
And it’s yours for $10,700 (€8,980) in the US and, no doubt, more than that elsewhere.
A mesmerising, undulating kinetic artwork by Scale Collective created for the Constellations Festival in Metz, northeast France.
A ring of forty eight 1.5m long light rods, 40cm apart, each connected to a single motorised mechanism controlled by a viewer interface that spins the rods to create synchronised patterns.
But you knew that.
Behold: elliptical spiral galaxy NGC 1947 in the southern sky within the boundaries of the Constellation of Dorado. To wit:
NGC 1947 is some 40 million light-years away. In silhouette against starlight, obscuring lanes of cosmic dust thread across the peculiar galaxy’s bright central regions. Unlike the rotation of stars, gas, and dust tracing the arms of spiral galaxies, the motions of dust and gas don’t follow the motions of stars in NGC 1947 though. Their more complicated disconnected motion suggest this galaxy’s visible threads of dust and gas may have come from a donor galaxy, accreted by NGC 1947 during the last 3 billion years or so of the peculiar galaxy’s evolution. With spiky foreground Milky Way stars and even more distant background galaxies scattered through the frame, this sharp Hubble image spans about 25,000 light-years near the centre of NGC 1947.
(Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz)
A new surreal animated short from Argentinian director Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films (you’ll recall his insane extrapolated amusement park) wherein everyday activities and scenes are taken to other levels entirely.
