Tuesday, 26 June 2012

astronomics

the carina nebula




spiral galaxy NGC 3962







                                                             
                                                   the crab nebula, a supernova remnant


these images were captured by the hubble telescope. they're combinations of two or more black and white exposures, with colour added during the image processing. the  hubble team describe the process of reconstructing the colour tones from the telescopes data readings as being 'equal parts art and science'. pretty cool

on this general tip, everyone should watch the documentary series through the wormhole. presented by morgan freeman doing his best god impression, you couldn't really ask for more from a science programme. brian cox can gobble a d. link

look out for morgan's incredible turns to camera and his curious right ear-ring...





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patrick jean's 8 bit aliens take apart NY one brick at a time. bonace mon frere. pixels



Monday, 25 June 2012

sound of my voice


looks like the help's got a bit slack on the hoovering.

this image is taken from the new psycho thriller sound of my voice, staring brit marling, a young shorty that's about to be very big in hollywood. the unpronounceable director zal batmanglij's last film, another earth, has an identical planet to ours crop up a couple of kilometres outside our atmosphere - where it turns out there's another you... and there are space tickets to go check out how the other half lives. pretty high concept, and this one's no less so.

i'm not going to say too much about the film because you can watch the first 12 minutes on the movie's website. and they're a strong 12 minutes. shit, if the picture's not enough to make you want to check it out, you've got no imagination and should get cracking on your application form to work in the civil service.

sound of my voice