Friday Ephemera
Something big hit Jupiter. // The data sent out with Voyager. Earthlings in sound and pictures. // Total solar eclipse, Japan. // Radio telescopes of note. // Faces made with clothing. // Invading vintage postcards. // Measuring snails. // Antelope Canyon. // Taung Kalat. Buddhist elevation. // Matchstick oil rig. // Electric mountains. // Lyrebird mimicry. // Pandaphants. // BMW concept car. // Bellies. // 10 ancient cities. // Little clay worlds. // Star Wars uncut. // Cinema Museum. (h/t, Coudal) // And, via The Thin Man, it’s the proto-rap stylings of Mr Gilbert Bécaud.
What the Voyager disc should have said: “We’re armed and inedible”.
So if ET’s out there he’s listening to our “whale greetings”? I’m so fucking embarrassed.
In fairness, we did send some Bach too. And Chuck Berry.
The lyrebird imitating the camera shutter (and motordrive too!) was fantastic. Apparently, starlings are quite good as this too, but I don’t suppose enough people have photographed them yet for them to become proficient at this…
The Buddhist temple is amazing. Guild of Evil HQ?
“Guild of Evil HQ?”
It does have that Guild of Evil™ charm.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gusjer/2410670597/sizes/l/
And it’s built on a volcanic plug, so there wouldn’t be much trouble with the neighbours. What could possibly go wrong?
I’d like to see a lyrebird so frequently exposed to Sir David Attenborough that it can convincingly narrate its own documentary.
“Guild of Evil HQ”.
I bet they have a very cheerful postman.
Regarding the “Electric Mountains”, I flew out of Vancouver in the evening and saw this, a remarkable sight. There are three night skiing resorts in the mountains to the north of the city. What a place to live – work during the day, and go skiing at night! Plus, it must really, really piss off the bearded fruit-loop collectivists.