The Looking Glass makes sci-fi movie-style holograms a reality

(TrendHunter.com) Throwboy launches a line of iconic pillows that recall familiar technology pieces from years priors—this includes old smartphones, mp3 players, and computers. The collection sees five pieces…

Photographers in Focus: Richard Mosse

To mark this year’s World Photo Day, on 19 August, Nowness premiered its latest episode of landmark series Photographers in Focus. This time, focusing on the work of Richard Mosse. The Irish filmmaker and photographer first gained significant attention for his startling and surreal images of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. These shots, some of which you can view below, used infrared film to transform trees, bushes, and flowers into a landscape of extraterrestrial unfamiliarity, bringing together—in compositions that are both beautiful and terrifying—the extremities of conflict. Throughout his career, the photographer has investigated not only war, but the fact of the human displacement caused by war. This has taken him from the Congo to the Balkans, and from the US-Mexican border to the shores of his native Europe.

New on Pursuitist’s radar is this intimate, 39 room eco-friendly boutique hotel located within Costa Rica’s Las Baulas National Park.  Cala Luna Boutique Hotel & Villas’s mission is equal parts hospitality and sustainability; guests experience the perfect blend of luxury, consciousness, and comfort. Not to mention you’ll 99.9% see some of Guanacaste’s famous Leatherback turtles! On property, we’re […]

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Join us for a conversation with some facts, a lot of speculation and opinions, but absolutely no legal advice, regarding the advent of NERO World.

Enjoy!

– Mickey and Bill

Were you a kid in the 1980s? It was a pretty fun decade to be a kid. Being an adult in the 1980s? Uhhh… well? Let’s not talk about that! Not when there’s toys and board games and comic books and McDonald’s Happy Meals!

And that’s exactly what me and my horrifying mustache discovered when we traveled to the home of John-Paul Annunziato. I took a Lyft — just like we did in the ’80s! Just busted out the car phone to call a… car.

Anyway.

The star Albireo has been a mystery for centuries: Is it a true binary or just a coincidental alignment of two unrelated stars? Thanks to Gaia we now know: It’s a coincidence.

If you want to add some approachable gravitas to your contemplative, black-and-white, us-against-the-world, WWII-era adventure game, almost any choice of voice acting talent on the planet would be a worse one than Patrick Stewart. 

I guess not everyone can be built like J-Lo.  It appears that Marvel Studios is hiring an unexpected sort of double for one of its Avengers.  While obviously, Chris Evans and company employ stunt doubles for some of their riskier acts of daring, a new posting from Central Casting, based out of Georgia, is looking for a “Body/Butt Double” for a Marvel project.  The description reads, “Looking for a female who appears to be Caucasian, 20’s-30’s. Height 5’2 – 5’4, Bust 32B – 32D, waist 25 – 27, hips 36 – 38, dress size 0-4. Hair color: BLONDE.”  It goes on to state that applicants must submit a “full body shot of your backside (wearing ALL BLACK, leggings or yoga pants- must be form fitting). Here is the cast listing if you want to check it out: Though not listed in this posting, the film that they are hiring for is ‘Mary Lou’, which was the working title of ‘Avengers 4’. ‘Avengers 4’ has wrapped, however t,here could be some last minute reshoots needed.  There are still several months before it, or its direct predecessor ‘Captain Marvel’, comes out after all.  The description really narrows things down though.  The fact that […]

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Science Fiction

Astronomers studying the globular cluster Omega Centauri find stellar encounters should have ripped all the planets from their stars.

Next up we turn Sci-Fi-O-Rama up to eleven and present a retina-searing selection of art from Brazilian graphic and street art duo Douglas de Castro and Renato Reno, better know as Bicicleta sem Freio. ‘Bicicleta sem Freio’ is Portuguese for “bicycle without brakes” and it’s an apt moniker for a style that jams the visual …