77 Million — More or Less
The BBC goes behind the scenes of Brian Eno’s 77 Million Paintings project as it was projected on the surface of the Sydney Opera House: There is also a profile of the project, with some technical...
View ArticleShutter Speed: 11 Days
That’s how long it took the Hubble Space Telescope — pointed towards “absolutely nothing” — to capture the 10,000 galaxies visible in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image: via gizmodo
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Tininess, Unveiled
The focus needs some work... No, that’s not a pinhole-camera photo of someone with a plutonium throat lozenge in their mouth. Researchers at IBM have created the first image of a single molecule using...
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My Nominee for Photo of the Year
I never expected to post any cat pictures on this particular blog, but there are moments for everything. And when a form reaches a pinnacle like this, lines must be crossed, and implied rules tossed....
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Sixty Years of Merging
On the 60th anniversary of the founding of the (so-called) People’s Republic of China, this image resonated with me: Camouflage 2 by Liu Bolin From photographer Liu Bolin: “I choose to merge myself...
View ArticleAutumn’s Twilight?
I went momiji-viewing late this afternoon, and there was just something in the air, or the light, or the drizzle, or the combination that seemed like an ending. Can fall be over already?
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A Happy Collision
CERN flipped the switch again on the Large Hadron Collider, two proton beams sped towards each other — a crash, then sub-atomic shrapnel. And a roomful of people experience a moment of joy that’s been...
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Snowfall at Dusk
I actually choked on a snowflake earlier this evening, but my cold, wet walk was worth it. This evening in Portland
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A shower of debris?
Or an Undulating Fragment from Oblivion? I don’t know. But this image that the Hubble Space Telescope took is quite beautiful: X at 11000mph
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Goya: Aún aprendo
El Perro (1819-23) Robert Hughes: “Goya was one of those uncommon artists who had the daring, or the folly, to take on the whole scale of human fate. It was a huge scale, and nobody works on it today,...
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Battle of the Centaurs
Battle of the Centaurs by Michelangelo Buonarroti (Photo credit: Sailko)
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Heritage
Unconfirmed, but hopefully true Citizens form a human wall around the Egyptian Museum in Cairo to protect historical artifacts within. via
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A Possible Future for Newspaper Boxes
A newspaper box in St. Petersburg, Florida A closeup of the sign Photo Credit: Jim Blair
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