Jef Aérosol. Wall Street Art Festival of Grand Paris Sud.

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The Great Escape

It was a story that captured the world’s attention – 12 boys and their young football coach trapped for more than two weeks in a dark, flooded cave, kilometres from help or food. As the news came on Tuesday night that the last group had been rescued, media outlets large and small, from Denmark to the United Arab Emirates, celebrated.

 

Britain's new polar research ship is ready to go in the water.

The newly assembled hull of the RRS Sir David Attenborough is now standing on the slipway of the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, awaiting launch day. Weather and tide permitting, she should slide into the River Mersey on Saturday. The £200m vessel will replace the James Clark Ross and the Shackleton, which between them have almost 50 years' service in support of UK polar science.
 The Attenborough is the ship the public had wanted to call "Boaty McBoatface" in an online poll, before ministers stepped in to choose a more appropriate name.
 She represents the largest commercial ship built in Britain in three decades.
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Mocktails by Mick Stevens

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Never, itsPeteski

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Personal Message

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Secret Friends

AnaHell’s absurdist series Secret Friends features people in multiple locations around the world, neatly bending their bodies forward to expose their backs. A hastily drawn face and a wig instantly transforms them into comic potato-like caricatures of the everyman.
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Hairy Money

Finnish artist Noora Schroderus embroiders classic hairstyles inspired by well-known female characters of European folktales and Disney films onto the leaders featured on US and British currency.

 

CityLiveSketch

Italian artist Pietro Cataudella combines his architectural drawings of famous landmarks with photos of their real-life surroundings.
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Still here

Miguel Marquez Outside

 

Calvin and Hobbes

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Famous Ant Haikus by Roz Chast

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Memo to those seeking to live for ever

When we desire indefinite life we seem to be in denial of the essentially transient, impermanent nature of everything, especially of ourselves. To even imagine eternal life we have to assume that we are the kinds of creatures who could persist indefinitely. 

But contemporary philosophers, neuroscientists, psychologists and the early Buddhists all agree that the self is in constant flux, lacking a permanent, unchanging essence. 

Put simply, there is no thing that could survive indefinitely. 

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Back to Work

Huynh Thanh Huy

 

The sun sets behind the Temple of Hercules on the Amman Citadel in Jordan.

Photograph by Zaid Abutaha

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House in Finikia

Santorini rises from a volcanic caldera, the largest island of a small archipelago off the coast of Greece. Here, Kapsimalis Architects has proposed ‘House in Finikia’, a man-made monolith that draws its inspiration from volcanic stone.

 

‘The squirrel house’ by TEN in Norway

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Brooklyn Street Art

Cern. Welling Court 2018.

LMNOPI. Welling Court 2018.

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Thai navy Seals, along with the international diver team, are ready to bring the soccer team home!

The Thai navy Seals have posted a photograph to Facebook about the rescue mission that five of their number have embarked on.
 Five Thai divers, whom Narongsak Osatanakorn, the coordinator of the rescue mission, described as “some of our best” will join 13 expert international divers in a rescue mission to bring the 12 boys and their football coach out of the cave. The mission could take days, with Narongsak saying the first boy could emerge at about 9pm local time – 11 hours after the mission commenced.

Thai navy Seals have been staying with the boys in the cave since they were found on Monday night and officials have spoken of the importance of having Thai-speaking divers, with whom the boys have formed a bond, as part of the rescue mission.
 The Seals experienced a blow on Friday when one of their former members, Saman Kunan, who was volunteering in the rescue mission, died while returning from the cave where thee boys are trapped.

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Croatia book World Cup semi-final with England after penalty shootout win

Croatia will play in the World Cup semi-final for the second time in their 20-year history after a dramatic 6-5 victory after a penalty shoot-out against Russia in Sochi on Saturday night.

 

Anthropocene

George Marazakis