90299807Science newbie Sara Walshe holding 550 balloons at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition 50th birthday launch in the grounds of government buildings Iveagh Gardens, Dublin, today.

All it would take now would be a little prick

(You may have seen this coming}

90299772Hello you.

(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)

duck-3duck-5

A 14m tall 16.7m long inflatable duck created by conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman was towed into Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour this week, and will remain on display there until June, spreading teh happy, unless it’s destroyed by Gojira first.

The artist sez:

The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!

colossal

Thanks Niall O’M

kevin2kevincomp1kevin1kevincomp2kevin3A self-portrait project by animator Kevin McShane, in which he’s drawn himself in the style of 100 different animators from Windsor McCay to Walt Disney, Osamu Tekuza and Pixar.

As commenter Crafty points out, he’s not the first to do this.

biotv

BJN2y7kCEAE3KV5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LprGBnJxKg

Another dispatch in our ongoing love affair with Commander Chris ‘Uncle Chris’ Hadfield, wherein he explains how he takes his photos of planet Earth.

Added bonus – a photo of the moon ushering in the dawn over the US.

His daughter lives in Dublin, don’t you know.

io9

Broadsheet.ie