A video for Nashville-based electronica artist Makeup And Vanity Set (Michael Pusti) by Saman Kesh and Justin Daashuur Hopkins in which a tech enthusiast attempts to scam a retail platform by claiming his new monitor was never delivered, requesting a refund.
At first, the site’s AI reacts politely to the scammer’s increasing rudeness, then it exacts sweet revenge.
Whys and wherefores here.
Behold: one of three surviving 1967 Ford Mustang ‘Eleanors’ from the film ‘Gone in 60 Seconds’ (2000). And not a banged-up and repaired stunt vehicle either.
This Mustang was a ‘hero’ car, meaning that it was used to film Nicolas Cage and Angelina Jolie in key scenes, thereby remaining in pristine condition, but with 116,000km on the clock and a 400bhp V8 under the hood, it’s rather more than mere movie memorabilia.
Currently in Germany and accepting bids.
Colum Cronin tweets:
Brilliant blue skies in a wintery Dublin last weekend. I particularly like the reflections on the Liffey.
In fairness.
Behold: the Lazzarini Pagurus – also known as the ‘Crabamaran’ – a 25 metre catamaran with rotating cylindrical screws that allow it to navigate not just water at 24 knots but coastal sand and mud at 35km/h.
Powered by twin 890bhp diesel engines (the extensive solar panels power the internal systems and electrics), the Pagurus’ twin hulls are configurable with bathrooms, kitchens, cabin space for eight guests and four crew.
The main deck is big enough to park a Cybertruck which is loaded and unloaded by an integrated crane platform.
Yours (not that you’d ever think to ask) for €24.7 million euro.
Behold: the Deep Space Resonance Watch by luxury timepiece maker Vianney Halter: an intricate 3-axis tourbillon beneath a domed crystal case, riding on a pair of synchronised balance wheels surrounded by a time display, hence, four movements symbolising the 4 dimensional fabric of the Universe.
Only two of these cosmic wrist candies will be made each year and yours will cost around €820,000.
The Moon: changing its appearance nightly depending on numerous factors but nonetheless entirely predictable. To wit:
As the Moon orbits the Earth, the half illuminated by the Sun first becomes increasingly visible, then decreasingly visible. The featured video animates images taken by NASA’s Moon-orbiting Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to show all 12 lunations that appear this year, 2021. A single lunation describes one full cycle of our Moon, including all of its phases. A full lunation takes about 29.5 days, just under a month (moon-th). As each lunation progresses, sunlight reflects from the Moon at different angles, and so illuminates different features differently. During all of this, of course, the Moon always keeps the same face toward the Earth. What is less apparent night-to-night is that the Moon‘s apparent size changes slightly, and that a slight wobble called a libration occurs as the Moon progresses along its elliptical orbit.
(Video: Data: Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter ; Animation: NASA‘s Scientific Visualization Studio; Music: Brandenburg Concerto No4-1 BWV1049 (Johann Sebastian Bach), by Kevin MacLeod via Incompetech)
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