Behold: the 1954 Jaguar XK120 – something of a unicorn, it was found in a barn in Cleveland Ohio.
Details of its past life are sparse but the US-market model was apparently driven as the manufacturer intended, taking part in rallies and sports event up to the late 1960s.
Fully intact with its original motor, interior and Jaguar verified 1954 paintwork, it goes to auction later this month, unrestored and wearing its 66 year old patina with pride.
Behold: the 1961 Jaguar E-Type Fixed Head coupe – an extremely early production development series 1 demonstration car for one of Jaguar’s greatest GTs.
Painted opalescent dark green with assigned chassis number 860010, this car had unique design features that would later make it into full production including lowered driver’s side floor, redesigned seats and pedal position plus numerous mechanical improvements.
Fully restored to Concours level with its original engine, it’s arguably one of the finest E-Types on the market and goes to auction at the end of this month.
At first glance, the work of Sofia Crespo may resemble the 18th century renderings of Louis Renard or Albertus Seba but a closer look reveals disturbing alien glitches in the natural world: conjoined fish, featherlike blooms and malformed wingless insects.
Entitled ‘Artificial Natural History’, the project uses artificial neural networks to generate the illustrations, which Crespo describes as a form of ‘Renaissance humanism’:
Our visual cortex recognises the textures, but the brain is simultaneously aware that those elements don’t belong to any arrangement of reality that it has access to…
Well it all looks perfectly nx6xqssttk to us.
The newly opened Dujiangyan Zhongshuge Bookstore in Chengdu, China.
It’s books, and pictures of books, all the way up.
No, they don’t have the new Marian Keyes in.
The work of Warsaw-based artist Nespoon at the Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode, the fashion and lace museum of the city of Calais – lace capital of the world back in the late 19th century.
The artist chose her intricate motif, which dates back to 1894, from the institution’s archive before spray painting it onto the building.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPwbVqU6lc
MetaBallStudios returns with an update of their 2015 starship size comparison adding new fantasy craft into the mix: from the tiny Hocotate ship of the Pikmin to Larry Niven’s not terribly small Ringworld.
And if you liked that, you’ll probably want to see this.
Previously: Money, Moonier, Mooniest
Behold: the fast approaching bird of prey in your rear view mirror that is the BMW M1000RR – the first dedicated ‘M’ bike from BMW’s motorsports division, based on the already fairly nippy S1000RR.
The ‘M’, as you’d expect, denotes a fully-optimised, 212bhp track-scorching tune-up with upgraded Mahle pistons, adapted combustion chambers, increased engine compression, downforce enhancing aerodynamics, an aluminium chassis, and carbon wheels.
Skree.
She is the best and her mouth is so distracting but in a fun way
An affectionate tribute by Kelly Lassere.
Behold: the 1980 Aston Martin Bulldog – a 5.8 litre, V8, mid-engined Countach-LP400S-meets-DeLorean-looking prototype that was once envisaged as the fastest production car in the world. 40 years ago, after clocking a very impressive 309km/h during testing (but thought to be ultimately capable of 381km/h), the project was deemed too expensive and killed off.
This, therefore, is the only Bulldog in existence and it’s now in the possession of UK-based Classic Motor Cars where an 18 month restoration project is currently underway.
But why, sez you unkindly.
