Cool things

<n>Demise.</n> by <n>Manoela Lanzara</n>, 2019.

A block of <n>Aerogel</n>, the world's lightest solid material. Photo by <n>NASA</n>/<n>JPL-Caltech</n>.

<n>Self Similar</n>, a land art installation by <n>Jim Denevan</n> for <n>Manar Abu Dhabi</n>. Photo by <n>Lance Gerber</n>.

Yet it may be, they went on, that there is a zone of silence in the middle of every art. The artists themselves live in it.

— from Walter Sickert: A Conversation, 1934, Woolf

Actor <n>Keir Dullea</n> in a lobby card for <n>Stanley Kubrick</n>'s 1968 film <n>2001: A Space Odyssey</n>.