Author Archives: Niall Murphy

Nick Risinger traveled around the Western United States and to South Africa, took 37,440 exposures, and created a 5,000 megapixel view of the Milky Way. The final product, on display at Photopic Sky Survey, is an interactive view of the night sky. You can scan across a 360-degree image, and select a toggle that will show constellations, planets and other features.

Enter Photopic Sky Survey

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The insanely skilled Jonny Mizzone (8) on banjo accompanied by his brothers – Robbie (12) on fiddle and Tommy (13) on guitar – cover Earl Scruggs’s Flint Hill Special.

And as if that wasn’t sufficiently impressive, check out this fine Youtube comment:

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In 1997, George Lucas purchased a full-page ad in Variety for James Cameron when Titanic surpassed Star Wars as the highest-grossing movie of all time.

Apparently, it’s a long-standing tradition in Hollywood. Lucas himself received the bottom two plaudits from Stephen Spielberg when Star Wars outdid Jaws and E.T at the box-office. Since then, of course, Avatar has taken the crown from Titanic.

So far, Cameron hasn’t sent himself a card.

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