2012-04-19
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The “Republic of the Moon” is one of the projects that uses all this information as a source of inspiration. The project moonmeme by Liliane Lijn reveals her concept to write on the Moon from the Earth using a laser beam. The word ‘SHE” is projected onto the surface of the moon, the meaning of this word being gradually transformed as the Moon moves through its phases.
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A lunar panorama by Surveyor 7, the last of the unmanned landers sent by the US before the manned moon programme (via).
On Jan. 20, while the craft was still in daylight, the TV camera clearly saw two laser beams aimed at it from the night side of the crescent Earth, one from Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and the other at Table Mountain at Wrightwood, California.
2012-03-19
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Space Suits by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives on Flickr:
Catalog #: 08_001663
Description: Garrett Corp Crew Systems EVA Branch
Format: Glossy Photo
NASA seems to have been keen on using sport to test suits. There’s video of a game of football, comparing the soft and hard suits in a competitive trial. (via)
2012-03-01
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A composite of photographs of the London Eye, by Idris Kahn. Taken from the New York Times Magazine’s London issue, which might even prompt me to (shock) buy a paper copy.
2012-02-17
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Really interesting montages by John Clang they make me think of a low tech version Babel Tales By Peter Funch.
There’s something about composites, especially ones that show the physical.
2012-01-19
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(re):media by Krista Wortendyke, 2009.
“Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. (Re): media is an exploration of the way imagery and information from movies, videogames, newspapers, and the Internet come together to form our perception of war. Having never experienced war first-hand I am forced to put my faith in mediated expressions of the thing itself. By combining the imagery I pillage from all these sources, there is a possibility that what I am creating is more real than the individual images themselves. Explosions are war’s most universal and most spectacular signifiers. We are never falling short of this imagery. I have made use of these magnetizing images to show not only how the lines between fiction and non-fiction blur, but also to show how a mediated experience can become indecipherable from a real experience.” - Krista Wortendyke.
Via the always-excellent TRIANGULATION BLOG.
2011-02-02
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Photographs by Wing Shya/Simon Birch (warning: both Flash) (via ffffound) (via ulle69 / Ulrik Hogrebe, who says to “distribute, copy, steal, reproduce or pass on anything on this site - just give credit where credit is due”, which is ironic, given the utter lack of credits on anything in his Tumblr) (credit via TinEye)
