cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/39302426

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You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_time

Lithuanian discus thrower Mykolas Alekna, 21, won silver in Paris, following in his father Virgilijus' footsteps. He qualified for final with a 67.47-meter throw and broke his father's Olympic record with 69.89 meters. As the world record holder (74.35 meters), Mykolas is set to continue his family's legacy.

With the Olympics on I wondered how much one would sell for given a lot of these events don’t have a lot of options of making a living unfortunately.

The article is from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics so pricing might not be exact but:

At today’s prices that means the gold medal would be worth around $800 if you melted it down, while the silver would be worth about $450 and the bronze around $5.

That’s just the worth of the metals, the fact that it’s an Olympic medal means it’ll sell more but it varies a lot based on the year and event which make sense.

Earlier this month a winner’s medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics sold for $180,000 at auction, Cuban shooter Leuris Pupo’s gold medal from the London 2012 Olympics fetched $73,200, and his compatriot Iván Pedroso’s long jump gold medal from Sydney 2000 went for $71,335. All three were sold by Boston-based RR Auction.

Technique used: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_photography

Xavi Bou is a Spanish photographer who embarked on a project called Ornitographies in 2012. In order to “to make visible the invisible,” he creates timelapse pictures of birds in motion.

Bou says that he feels like a curator looking for hidden drawings that birds make in the sky with their flights.

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One of the favorite birds are clouds of starlings when they do their murmuration dance, especially when this group is behind attacked by hawks, as Bou says in an Atlas Obscura article: ”I am passionate about the idea of how a sculptor, the hawk, shapes the shapes of starling clouds“, he says.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavi_Bou