notes.husk.org. scribblings by Paul Mison.

blakegopnik (via fette):

DAILY PIC: These two iPhones are all there is to “The Distance of a Day”, an installation by the young Brooklyner David Horvitz that I just saw at the Art Basel fair, in the booth of Berlin’s Chert gallery. Last February, Horvitz got his mom to record a video of the sunset over the sea near Los Angeles, where he was born and grew up. At the same moment that she was taping, he was at a point almost opposite her on the globe, in the Maldives, taping the same sun as it rose. There was something  poignant for me in imagining our great sun as a tenuous link between mother and son. There was also a kind of almost scientific rigor in the piece, as it demonstrated a basic truth of heliocentric astronomy. And, of course, it was also about virtuality: A deeply physical project that involves two people and the places they’re in comes to us care of an ephemeral digital record – in fact presented on the very phones that recorded the scenes. And I still can’t wrap my mind around the idea of a single object being photographed at the same instant from opposite sides of the globe.

There are times of the year when the sun is visible from both San Francisco and London for hours, and (in December) times when it’s only visible from both for half an hour. This seems like a nice idea for the latter.

Catherine Meyer: “The Shard transformed into a lighthouse”.

(Source: twitter.com)

Astronaut Takes Amazing Self Portrait in Space, (via meatrobot):

[Taken by] Aki Hoshide, [this] self portrait brings into one frame “the Sun, the Earth, two portions of a robotic arm, an astronaut’s spacesuit, the deep darkness of space, and the unusual camera taking the picture.”

As seen on Astronomy Picture Of The Day. Oddly, what grabbed me was the sensor flare around the sun in the top left.

The London Eye in fog, on March 15th. Photograph: Andrew Winning / Reuters. (via, via)

Six works from The Outward And Visible Signs, Robert Longo. Charcoal on mounted paper, rearranged in decreasing order of the pictured object’s size. (via; previously)

Image by Neil Freeman for a participatory Solar Alignment Walk.

September 22, 2010 - March 20, 2011 by heather on Flickr.

September 22nd was when I arrived in San Francisco, so the timing of this image - a solargraph of sunrise over the Oakland hills - is more meaningful to me than it might be otherwise. (See also: Heather’s post about the making of.)

A photo of the ISS transiting the Sun during a partial eclipse? It can only be Thierry Legault.

He also captured the ISS in front of the Moon and the lunar eclipse last month.

feltron:

Concorde

Nature, 1975:

On June 30, 1973, Concorde 001 intercepted the path of a solar eclipse over North Africa, Flying at Mach 2.05 the aircraft provided seven observers from France, Britain and the United States with 74 min of totality bounded by extended second (7 min) and third (12 min) contacts. The former permitted searches for time variations of much longer period than previously possible and the latter provided an opportunity for chromospheric observations of improved height resolution. The altitude, which varied between 16,200 and 17,700 m, freed the observations from the usual weather problems and greatly reduced atmospheric absorption and sky noise in regions of the infrared.