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“Perfectionist is usually a euphemism for pain in the ass. Stanley Kubrick was the first real perfectionist.”
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The once-crowded museums are sitting empty in the uncertain times of C19 pandemic. Dive into our compilation of resources free for everyone to enjoy. Some of the resources are open content, reusable and remixable under creative commons.
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In the future, we might look back at March 2020 and be stunned by this epic capture of a resting beauty in quarantine, Frankfurt am Main. The world has changed.
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Oumuamua is the first interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, 40 days after it passed its closest point to the Sun. When first seen, it was about 33,000,000 km (21,000,000 mi; 0.22 AU) from Earth (about 85 times as far away as the Moon), and already heading away from the Sun.
The name comes from Hawaiian “oumuamua”, meaning “scout” (from “ou”, meaning “reach out for”, and mua, reduplicated for emphasis, meaning “first, in advance of”), and reflects the way this object is like a scout or messenger sent from the distant past to reach out to humanity.
Hit by Oumuamua would have not meant an extinction level impact for the planet, but it would have unfortunately been enough to hit a city with hundreds of thousands dead and millions injured.
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The following basic characteristics sum up a neophiliac: The ability to adapt rapidly to extreme change. A distaste or downright loathing of tradition, repetition, and routine. A tendency to become bored quickly with old things. A desire, bordering on obsession in some cases, to experience novelty. A corresponding and related desire to create novelty by creating or achieving something and/or by stirring social or other forms of unrest. A complete objection to or distrust of commitment.
Neophile or Neophiliac, a term popularised by cult writer Robert Anton Wilson, is a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty. The term was used earlier by Christopher Booker in his book The Neophiliacs (1969), and by J. D. Salinger in his short story Hapworth 16, 1924 (1965).
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Jonathan Bailey and Jon Harney are two New York City based sound designers forming the alias Poppa Jons – a (tongue-in-cheek) commemoration of the duo’s recent entry into fatherhood.
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In the seventeenth century, Iranian patrons began commissioning large-scale paintings as decoration for palatial interiors. While the use of oil paint on stretched canvases was probably derived from European tradition, the Iranians did not frame the paintings to hang individually on the walls like their European counterparts. Instead the paintings were part of an overall architectural design, fitting neatly into recessed spaces on the walls.
The subject of this portrait, Shahzadeh Navvab Yahya Mirza, was a son of the second ruler of the Qajar dynasty, Fath ‘Ali Shah (reigned 1797 to 1834). His father appointed him at an early age to govern the province of Gilan, near the Caspian Sea. With its emphasis on his costume’s many pearls, his prominently displayed sword, and his European-style pocket watch, the portrait captures the wealth, authority, and modernity of its youthful subject.
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In The Joy of X, a new podcast by Quanta Magazine, acclaimed mathematician and author Steven Strogatz holds intimate, lively conversations with top-tier scientists about their discoveries and the inspirations, frustrations and pleasures along the way. In each episode, Strogatz shares with listeners his passion for scientific inquiry – as one scientist genuinely interested in the inner world of another.
The topics of conversation range from the beginning of time, the power of black holes, the evolution of brains and behaviors, the mathematics of rigged elections, the nature of scientific evidence and how a former NFL player ended up pushing the boundaries of graph theory.
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“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day.”
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Horn Bowl
This horn bowl is from Madagascar and a timeless good which is enduring in quality. A true classic for design homeware collector.
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Unit One Pencil Holder
Unit One by Mark Braun is a functional desktop sculpture for storing objects of the modern workplace. Pencils, business cards and mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, equally find their place in a Unit One.
