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speps · 3 years ago
Using the same stereoscopic device, he also released with some other people another awesome book:

> Tableaux depicting life in hell, better known as Diableries, were all the rage in nineteenth century France but over the years the stereo images made after those clay tableaux were scattered and their hidden meaning lost. When first published in 2013, this book featured all but two of the 184 scenes in the series. Remarkably, the two lost remaining views have now been found! This 2018 Complete Edition features the full compliment, to be enjoyed just as their creators intended in magnificent 3-D.

https://www.diableries.co.uk/about-the-book/

codeulike · 3 years ago
3 ... D ... 3 ... D Rock View

3 ... D ... 3 ... D Rock View

bibanez · 3 years ago
Good pun :)
hyperthesis · 3 years ago
Brian May is my role model for late PhD thesis submission.
NovaDudely · 3 years ago
I love that any time May turns up, really is a coin flip between astrophysics and Queen. He really has thread the needle between fame and intellect.
belter · 3 years ago
midasuni · 3 years ago
Is he doing it in conjunction with d-Ream drummer and astrophysicist Brian Cox?

Are there any other famous scientist/musicians called Brian?

yoz · 3 years ago
Yet another not-Brian, but definitely my favourite one of these:

James Williamson got an electronics engineering degree in 1982. He immediately joined AMD where he worked for 15 years on tooling around chip design.

In 1997, Sony hired him as their Vice President of Technical Standards, where he did such good work that he later won ANSI’s Standards Leadership Award. He stayed in the role for twelve years before accepting an early retirement buyout.

But he was only sixty years old and didn’t feel like retiring. Instead, he went back to his pre-degree job: playing lead guitar for Iggy Pop and the Stooges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Williamson_(musician)

jmkb · 3 years ago
Brian Eno developed tape-delay audio tech, released a few mobile apps, is a founder of the Long Now Foundation... not a scientist but definitely a bit science-y.
foobarbecue · 3 years ago
Dude is in all the crosswords like every week
yoz · 3 years ago
Do you mean FATHER Brian Eno? https://youtu.be/vQ00zZbfxd4

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benzible · 3 years ago
Also not Brian, and maybe not exactly a scientist, but Jeff "Skunk" Baxter of Steely Dan & the Doobie Brothers has a second career as a consultant on missile defense systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baxter#Defense_consulting...
yoz · 3 years ago
Kelley Deal of The Breeders and R Ring spent many years as a program analyst at a defense contractor: https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm9g3r/the-breeders-kelley-d...
devnullbrain · 3 years ago
Brian Cox was a keyboardist
Barrin92 · 3 years ago
Not a Brian, although there's one in the band, but Bad Religion's Greg Graffin has a PhD in zoology from Cornell. Might be the most credentialed punk rock singer.
smogcutter · 3 years ago
Dexter from the Offspring is a molecular bio PhD from USC
shaunxcode · 3 years ago
Dan Yemin of Kid Dynamite and Paint it Black has a doctorate in psychology!
jwestbury · 3 years ago
Less famous, but Brian Wecht, aka Ninja Brian from Ninja Sex Party, is also a theoretical physicist, though he's retired from academia.
wyldfire · 3 years ago
He's a regular Perfect Tommy. He should start his own IRL group of Hong Kong Cavaliers.
slowmovintarget · 3 years ago
He'll need to watch out for Lord John Whorfin.

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j0057 · 3 years ago
This story is better if you listen to this at the same time, recently re-released: https://youtu.be/5lC54X5Gc1Q
pleb_nz · 3 years ago
The queen had her own guitarist? Cool...
ndepoel · 3 years ago
Considering Brian May played God Save The Queen on top of Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Golden Jubilee in 2002... yes, yes she had.
throwawaymobule · 3 years ago
The anthem, or the punk song?
pzs · 3 years ago
The Queen did, yes. Pretty standard member in rock bands. :)