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Sometimes you need to step back to see the big picture, and if your subjects are 249,000 miles apart, you need to step waaay back. Luckily, the spacecraft OSIRIS-REx is moving rapidly away from us and was recently just in the right position, around 3.1 million miles away, so it trained its MapCam instrument towards […]
President of the United States Donald Trump, 71, appeared alongside wife Melania Trump, 47, in a Christmas portrait posted on Twitter today, taken at the White House. In the portrait, the married couple appear wearing black tie dress and holding hands in a pose that shows a united front. First Lady Melania wears a midi length black […]
(We’re going to kickstart our weekly discussion of USA’s Mr. Robot season 3 by answering one simple question: who had the biggest mental breakdown in this week’s episode?) Sobering reminders of reality go hand-in-hand with Mr. Robot, and “Frederick and Tanya” is no exception. The episode has the thankless job of dealing with the aftermath of the Dark Army’s […]
Artist Abigail Ekue creates candid and conversational portrait series. Her celebrated Bare Men project is a response to the lack of full-frontal male nudity in art and beyond. In Ekue’s latest series SHE Rides, the artist channels her admiration for riders of all ilk, including motorcyclists, cowboys, racers, and equestrians, into an inspiring, women-empowered set […]
Over the past seven years, more than 100 artists have recreated the paintings of Vincent van Gogh, with actors filmed against green screens then painted frame by frame on to the canvas. The result is absolutely gorgeous, like stepping into a Van Gogh painting where the swirls and daubs of paint convey a starry night […]
Published time: 10 Oct, 2017 00:15 A French millionaire of Algerian origin, known for his fierce opposition to anti-veil laws in Europe, has been fined by police in Austria for covering his face with a picture of Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, adorned with €100 bills and a pumpkin mask. The businessman-turned-political activist, Rachid Nekkaz, staged […]
Published time: 10 Sep, 2017 11:49 Satellite images have revealed a spooky, face-like formation in the eye of Hurricane Irma as the deadly storm is poised to make landfall in the US. After roaring its way along the Caribbean leaving a trail of carnage in its wake, the Category 4 hurricane is now set to […]
A few days ago, the news broke that Warner Bros. is developing a movie that would explore the origin story for The Joker. And while this Todd Phillips-drected, Martin Scorsese-produced project (!) sounds like a profoundly bad idea on many levels, it got the /Film staff talking. Who would you cast as the young version […]
Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal’s moving new documentary Whitney: Can I Be Me opens at the end of the story of Whitney Houston, with chopper shots of the hotel where she died in 2012, and the 911 call reporting it. It’s a sharmp, immediate reminder of the shock of that death, even though we heard […]
An opening scene takes us into the studio of Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) where American critic James Lord (Armie Hammer) has arrived for his first sitting. Tucci lets us breathe in the atmosphere of his ramshackle home, a dilapidated, disorganised old stable in a Paris backstreet. After the irascible, chain-smoking artist applies the finishing touches […]
