Beautiful Stills from Beautiful Films: Boogie Nights

Film-grab.com, a website that showcases 'beautiful stills from beautiful films', has just published a post on 'Boogie Nights', El Tarangu's second favourite film of all time. One of the images is a little NSFW (is a single female nipple still classified as NSFW these days?), but no spoilers.

All images belong to Paul Thomas Anderson/Robert Elswit, via film-grab.com

Photos of Early 20th Century Japan - T. Enami

Beautiful images from Meiji period Japanese photographer T. Enami; via thejournal.ie

Space Colonies Artwork

 

Images of space colonies, commissioned by NASA in the 1970s, created by Rick Guidice and Don Davies. The artwork can be found here; the artwork's backstory can be found here.

Images: NASA Ames Research Center, via @SYSKPodcast.

Russian Asteroids = Scary Shit

The European Space Agency has released an assessment on the recent asteroid impact over Chelyabinsk.

Quotes:

The entry speed is estimated at around 18 km/s – more than 64 000 km/h.

... the object is estimated to have been about 17 m across with a mass of 7000–10 000 tonnes when it hit atmosphere.

It exploded with a force of nearly 500 kilotons of TNT – some 30 times the energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb – around 15–20 km above the ground.

It seems that the Mayans were only a tiny bit off in their calculations.

Macro Reef Dwellers: A Retrospective

Felix Salazar.com

Book Covers: Nineteen Eighty-Four

Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (David Pearson)

Via boingboing.

Previously: Make Room! Make Room!

Jay-Z, or Gatsby?

There are a number of common themes in the works of Jay-Z and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The two artists frequently address notions of conspicuous consumption, and both have featured New York as a backdrop to their narratives.

But could you tell a Jay-Z lyric from a line of Fitzgerald's dialogue? Take the quiz and see how well you fare.

Vulture.com

Oscar Niemeyer 1907 - 2012

Oscar Niemeyer, one of the more influential architechts of the 20th century, has died just shy of his 105th birthday.

A short documentary clip on his works in Brasilia, his most notable project.

Super Storm on Saturn

From the European Space Agency's Facebook page

Headline of the Year

Quote:

TMZ reports that the lawsuit contains a host of other farfetched allegations, including claims that Usher sodomised the unnamed Michigan man with a firework whilst playing Katy Perry's song 'Firework'.

More as we get it.

From NME