Behold: the 1974 Lancia Stratos HF Stradale – the road-going version of the Group 4 World Rally Championship dominating Bertone designed cuneo of the 1970s.
This vehicle, with just 6,632km on the clock, complete with its 2,418cc Ferrari V6 engine and full documentation might just be the best preserved survivor of the 492 ever built.
Yours for €560,000.
The work of Korean artist Kim Tschang-Yeul, who died earlier this year, is characterised by his obsession with water droplets, hyper-realistically depicted. Writing about this tendency – which Tschang-Yeul shares with other Korean avante-garde artists of his era – lecturer Dr Cleo Roberts explains:
In this generation of artists, there is a ritualistic devotion to a chosen form, process, and, at times, colour. One could venture that, in the context of living in a volatile country ravaged by war, the security of immersion in a singular mode was an empowering choice, and may have been a necessary psychological counterpoint.
Behold: starships! To wit:
Specifically, they are launch-and-return reusable rockets being developed by SpaceX to lift cargo and eventually humans from the Earth‘s surface into space. The two rockets pictured are SN9 (Serial Number 9) and SN10 which were captured near their Boca Chica, Texas launchpad last month posing below January’s full Wolf Moon. The Starships house liquid-methane engines inside rugged stainless-steel shells. SN9 was test-launched earlier this month and did well with the exception of one internal rocket that failed to relight during powered descent. SN10 continues to undergo ground tests and may be test-launched later this month.
(Image: John Kraus)
With a few judicious tweaks and the appropriate soundtrack, Tobias Conrad recuts one of the best movies of all time into a sinister horror flick.
Yesterday. Location unspecified.
Colum Cronin tweets:
“Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.” A fitting Samuel Beckett quote for an abandoned garage with his mural. (could equally be applied to lockdown)
Behold: the heart of the Rosette Nebula, lit by the young stars of Caldwell 50, also known as the Satellite Cluster. To wit:
The stars of NGC 2244 formed from the surrounding gas only a few million years ago. The featured image taken in January using multiple exposures and very specific colours of Sulphur (shaded red), Hydrogen (green), and Oxygen (blue), captures the central region in tremendous detail. A hot wind of particles streams away from the cluster stars and contributes to an already complex menagerie of gas and dust filaments while slowly evacuating the cluster centre. The Rosette Nebula‘s centre measures about 50 light-years across, lies about 5,200 light-years away, and is visible with binoculars towards the constellation of the Unicorn (Monoceros).
(Image: Don Goldman)
While the people featured in the iconic cover art collage of The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, are all well documented, Chris Shaw went one step further and tracked down all the source imagery. To wit:
The collage was designed by Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, and the cut-outs were assembled in Michael Cooper’s London photographic studio. Michael and his team toiled hard to construct the ‘cast of extras’, using a mix of photos sourced from the BBC Hulton Picture Library, images from private collections, waxworks and personal artifacts, including a gnome owned by Ringo Starr
A celebration of fail for telecoms giant Etisalat by Helsinki-based commercials director Nalle Sjoblad.
A striking yellow King penguin spotted near a small island in South Georgia in 2019 by Belgian photographer Yves Adams.
Believed to be the first documented example of the condition in penguins, the atypical colouring is caused by leucism, which reduces melanin, allowing the penguin’s natural yellow pigment – normally reserved for mating displays – to dominate.
Behold: the Bugatti Centodieci – a prototype hypercar inspired by the wedge-shaped E110 of the 1990s
First debuted in 2019, the Centodieci has an 8.0l, quad-turbo W16 that’s expected to produce a staggering 1600bhp, accelerating to 100km/h in 2.4 seconds.
Yours for a mere €8.2 million, were you one of the handful of billionaires to have already pre-booked the entire production run.
