Morning Linkage (Aug 23)

Trans­porta­tion

Gaze Long­ingly at These Buicks of Yore. Well at the first three or four any­way. Clas­sic designs. After the 60’s Wild­cat it all goes down hill.

The Zaeta 530. Now (or soon) avail­able in street legal two-up trim. There’s a nice video that fea­tures arty footage of horses, fol­lowed by the Zaeta and a Porsche doing some seri­ous drift­ing in the dirt.

The Wil­son II. Extreme and prob­a­bly unrid­able but omg the pipes…

Notable espe­cially for its ori­gins. Mohammed Shojaie’s Ostoure (‘Leg­end’ in Per­sian) con­cept bike.  Much of the artist’s other work is included in Bloom, an Iran­ian on-line rac­ing game.

Sci­ence

Jack Horkheimer — the Star Gazer — passed away late last week.  For some back­ground and a taste of his humor have a look at this Pro­file col­umn from the Jan 06 edi­tion of Astron­omy. (PDF)

Look­ing back at earth from space. Wired Sci­ence presents a gallery of images of algal blooms. Damn we live on a beau­ti­ful planet.

Art, Images, and Design

Only one artist this morn­ing. But this overview of Alex Varanese’s work includ­ing the won­der­ful Alt1977 retro-futurism project will give you a good start to your week.

off you go kiddies.

Tagged as: Alex Varanese, algal blooms, buick, earth from space, Jack Horkheimer, Ostoure, Porsche, retro-futurism, Wilson II, Zaeta 530