A leaky, ice encrusted but still partially inhabited residential building at the village of Severny in the suburbs of Vorkuta captured by Russian photographer Maria Passer.
The temperature outside regularly drops to minus 40°C but it’s probably cosier than staying in.
Behold: the 1972 Ferrari Dino 246/GT – this one formerly owned by Williams F1 Team founder Sir Frank Williams.
Though it didn’t wear the Cavallino Rampante badge, the Dino was pure Ferrari with a mighty 192bhp 2.4l V6 mid-mounted engine capable of a more-than-respectable 0-100km/h in 7.1 seconds.
This immaculately preserved survivor can be yours for a mere €395,000.
A 1985 ad for General Electric rightly identified by We Are The Mutants as having the most amount of 80s any ad from the 80s could possibly have. Imagine the film Krull starring Jon Bon Jovi in suede lace-up boots. You’re not even close. To wit:
Only in a decade as contradictory as the 1980s would one of America’s most respectable and historic companies spend nearly a million dollars on a commercial depicting new wave “adventurers” in a post-apocalyptic “third millennium” wasteland as part of a last ditch campaign to save its fatally outmatched consumer electronics line. The company was General Electric, and the commercial was aimed squarely, even obnoxiously, at the nascent MTV generation.
Behold: Mars. Right there – wandering along through the constellation Taurus, close (in the sky) to the Seven Sisters or Pleiades star cluster. To wit:
In fact, this deep, widefield view of the region captures Mars near its closest conjunction to the Pleiades on March 3. Below centre, Mars is the bright yellowish celestial beacon only about 3 degrees from the pretty blue star cluster. Competing with Mars in colour and brightness, Aldebaran is the alpha star of Taurus. The red giant star is toward the lower left edge of the frame, a foreground star along the line-of-sight to the more distant Hyades star cluster. Otherwise too faint for your eye to see, the dark, dusty nebulae lie along the edge of the massive Perseus molecular cloud, with the striking reddish glow of NGC 1499, the California Nebula, at the upper right.
(Image: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava)
Millions of fireflies making whoopee in a dense Japanese bamboo forest during the 2019 mating season, captured by Russian photographer Daniel Kordan, who sez of the sexy swarm, in which males produce flashes of light and females respond in kind:
Fireflies are very sensitive. They need clean water nearby, warm humid air (but not rain), and no lights. Not a single photo can show how beautiful it is—shimmering and blinking forest full of little stars.
Kordan shares more about his process here.
Key scenes from a rather good movie cliché promotional thread started by author Tom Cox.
Two and a half very pleasing minutes of macro photography featuring ice crystals forming on the surface of soap bubbles in frigid temperatures – shot over the course of 30 hours by the very patient Jens Heildler.
