From Neil Young and the ensemble Crazy Horse, with whom the artist has been collaborating for over a half a century, with videography by Young’s wife Daryl Hanna, we are quite enjoying this new album—his forty-first and seventh together with Billy Talbot and Ralph Molina of Crazy Horse since 1968—released last month.
Friday, 21 January 2022
dmc-12

project lyra
Shortly after the passage of the interstellar interloper called ‘Oumuamua (previously) in the fall of 2017, the scientific consortium known as the Institute for Interstellar Studies began a drawing up plans to develop a probe to rendezvous with the mysterious object. Researchers demonstrated that by means of advanced propulsion technology and a complex, theoretical gravitational assist, a slingshot or powered flyby called a Jupiter Oberth manoeuvre, the craft, if launched by 2028, could eventually catch up with and better study ‘Oumuamua. In parallel, the institute is also working on Breakthrough Starshot, to propel a solar sail to the next nearest star system with an ETA of under two decades. More from Universe Today at the link up top.
6x6
wheelie bins: a collection of municipal-issue recycling bins from across the UK—via Pasa Bon!
filmovรฝ plakรกt: a gallery of vintage Czech movie posters
1 000 trees: drone footage showcases Heatherwick studios’ Shanghai shopping centre
northwoods baseball sleep radio: a fake game with no jarring sounds designed for podcast slumber
holkham bible picture book: a 1330 curiosity that illustrates select passages from the Old and New Testaments
the great british spring clean: projects and programmes (see also) sponsored by Keep Britain Tidy
Thursday, 20 January 2022
brearley architects + urbanists
Elevated above the marshes of the Yuandang estuary of Shanghai, a Chinese-Australian design group called BAU has created a graceful, sliver of a bridge to connect two areas of wetlands. With a pavilion and observation platform in the middle of the span, the structure integrates infrastructure with ecology and aesthetics. Much more from Dezeen at the link above.
catagories: ๐จ๐ณ, ๐, ๐ฑ, architecture
pegbox and promenade
Via Swiss Miss, we invited to get tiny and explore the microcosmos of spaces within musical instruments, as in this load-bearing “soul post” between the f-holes of a violin. The series from Charles Brooks of architecture in music also features flutes, pianos, organs and a didgeridoo.
an unfinished revolution
We had scant idea that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels had not only contributed hundreds of articles as foreign correspondents for the New York Daily Tribune in the lead up to the US Civil War advocating strongly against slavery and the apartheid of the American South—and North, Marx moreover kept up a correspondence with Abraham Lincoln—one does not readily summon this overlap and epistolary relatisonship, influencing and informing to an extent his interlocutor’s views on labour, suffrage and the estrangement of chattel and capital. Much more from Open Culture at the link above.
Wednesday, 19 January 2022
7x7
tomm¥ €a$h: rapper presents a sofa in the shape of bread
field manual: the predecessor agency to the US CIA issued a guide to simple sabotage which speaks to America’s present state
bio-rovers: Marimo moss balls (previously) could become ambulatory—see also here and here
spinthatiscope: an actual 1940s toy harnessing radioactive decay fragments of life: a suite of animated emoji from Andreas Samuelsson
middle c: a space-saving piano designed to fit in a corner—see also