Author Archives: Chompsky
Black Sun
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Stills and footage from an ongoing project by photographer Søren Solkær in the marshlands of southern Denmark where every spring and autumn, an estimated million migrating starlings converge in vast murmurations. Sez he:
At times the flock seems to possess the cohesive power of super fluids, changing shape in an endless flux: From geometric to organic, from solid to fluid, from matter to ethereal, from reality to dream—an exchange in which real-time ceases to exist and mythical time pervades. This is the moment I have attempted to capture—a fragment of eternity.
A book of the project is released this week.
Hot Wheels
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Behold: the 1959 Porsche 365A Coupe, or rather, an immaculate ‘outlaw’ restomod by Emory Motorsports. You’ll recall an equally impressive job they did on a 1964 Porsche 356 C4S (commissioned, like this one, by a private client).
On the surface, modified B-pillars and 1960s inspired access to oil filters and cooler. Underneath, a custom modified crankshaft, headers and cam, independent rear suspension, disc brakes and a 260bhp 2.6-litre, fuel-injected Emory-Rothsport Outlaw-4 engine.
Hostels in Ireland tweetz:
Is there anywhere along @ancienteastIRL as beautiful as Lough Tay near our Glendalough International Hostel in Wicklow?
The Men
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50 years ago this week, local officials of a small seaside town in Oregon decided to dispose of a long dead beached whale by detonating a charge inside it, hoping to obliterate the bulk of the problem and let seagulls and crabs deal with the rest.
They estimated a half a ton of dynamite would do the trick.
As it turns out, that was overkill. Mammalian marine guts spewed everywhere, raining down on townsfolk. A quarter-mile away, cars were smashed with chunks of cetacean carcass. This story remained a local legend for two decades, until the early ’90s , when the newspaper columnist Dave Barry mentioned seeing footage of the exploding beast. Soon after, this video clip — originally reported by Portland news channel KATU — went viral on the internet, long before “going viral on the internet” was even a thing.
A rather adorable short directed by Catherine Prowse for Childline about the anxieties of growing up and the futility of bottling them inside.
And if you liked that, you may care for the equally cute ‘making of’ feature.
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Hot Wheels
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Behold: the BMW C400X ‘Golden Age’ – a transformative art deco version of the C400X scooter made possible by a bolt-on nostalgia kit from NMoto (you’ll recall their version of the BMW R nineT).
A complete revamp – leaving all the underlying modern tech and performance intact, inspired by a 1936 J.K. Henderson prototype from O. Ray Courtney, the shells will be released next year.
