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Those strange lights in the sky seem to move with unnatural precision, making turns and accelerations no human-made aircraft could possibly match. What ultra-advanced anti-gravity system allows UFOs to fly in such a bizarre way? Apparently it's ionized air. An engineering professor at the University of Florida has it all figured out, and he's going to build his own flying saucer. Professor Subrata Roy started working on his "wingless electromagnetic air vehicle" (WEAV) for NASA. The surface of the saucer-shaped craft will be covered with electrodes that, when powered by a battery or other power source, will ionize the surrounding air to create plasma. When charged with an electric current, the polarized plasma will repel the non-polarized air, creating lift and thrust. Such an aircraft would have very stable flight characteristics, with the pilot controlling it by diverting the electrical charge to different parts of the surface. Professor Roy thinks it could be scaled up to useful dimensions (his prototype will be about six inches across). I'd check out the professor's work while you still can. He's scheduled for a visit from a couple of guys in black suits tomorrow, after which his research will be republished in a heavily redacted form. Image by: Scientific American.

Another impressive painting by Ralph Goings.

A series of five new prints by Ralph Goings, published by Magnolia Editions. Archival pigmented inkjet prints on rag paper. Limited editions of 30, numbered and signed by the artist. The prints may also be viewed at: http://www.magnoliaeditions.com/Content/Goings/Goings.htm To inquire about prices please contact: OK Harris Works of Art: email okharris@okharris.com, or call (212) 431-3600. or Magnolia Editions: email Don Farnsworth (don@magnoliaeditions.com) or call (510) 834-2527 From the publisher: "Ralph Goings’s elegant, meticulously rendered still lifes are an extension of the classical still life tradition, but their subject matter is unmistakably contemporary, drawn from the diners and luncheonettes of 20th century, blue-collar America. Magnolia Editions has published a series of five pigmented inkjet prints by Goings which reproduce in crisp, vibrant detail some of the artist’s favorite paintings from the 1990s. Whether documenting a countertop display in a diner or configuring his “family of objects” in his studio, Goings’s process is the same: he photographs the arrangement and then creates oil paintings with an extraordinary realism that effectively brings the two-dimensional photographs back to life. His loving attention to the play of light on glass and metal surfaces, combined with a masterful use of color, draws out the architectonic grandeur of humble salt shakers and ketchup bottles. These objects, ordinarily peripheral accessories to the “bas cuisine” meal, are not only celebrated as sophisticated works of industrial sculpture, but are given their own moment – literally, a chance to shine – by the man who has been called “the American Vermeer.” ---- Magnolia Editions 2006

Italian architect David Fisher is building his first skyscraper, the Dynamic Tower, and it happens to be one of the most ambitious construction plans since the Pyramid of Khufu. Every floor of the 80-story self-powered building rotates according to voice command, and nearly the entire structure of the $700 million building is pre-fabbed.

Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters.

Eric uses only black ink markers on white paper, a taste which he has retained since studying for his degree in Interior Design. He now also works directly onto canvas in indelible ink. Using different markers, he redesigns his own photographs and videos, or those given to him by clients; subtlety is added by the use of felt tips. He knows precisely which of his many pens will give him the desired shade of grey.

via ntrnts.com | Euphoria Magazine | MORE amazing topiary sculptures at the link!

What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks! Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men! -- Allen Ginsberg, ''Howl!'' ..................................................... The war is language, language abused for Advertisement, language used like magic for power on the planet —Allen Ginsberg, Wichita Vortex Sutra