Please watch this
5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo. The video is accompanied by Barber‘s Adagio for Stings Dear Alert Reader, This is required viewing for everyone on the planet. It must be viewed on the largest monitor you have, in full-screen HD, and in a dark room if you (1) are sick of [...]
Art Sunday: Saturn, Titan, Enceladus, Pandora
I once heard someone from Pixar describe their work as “art by committee.” Well, today we bring you “art by gargantuan federal administration.” Left to right: Pandora, Titan, Saturn (tbsp), Enceladus. Click on the image to see a high-resolution version. Credit: NASA/JPL This is art, folks. We have defended the artistic value of the latest [...]
Introducing Art Sundays
Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918. Image source: Wikimedia Commons Today Pastor Julie preached a beautiful sermon on being open to new things. So we’re thinking it’s a great day to start a new thing. It is Transfiguration Sunday, the day Christians worldwide remember the story of Christ’s metamorphosis before the eyes of Peter, James, and [...]
The life-giving vision of Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence, Eight Studies for the Book of Genesis, No. 7: “And God Created Man and Woman,” 1989-90. Source: Landau Traveling Exhibitions Discussions about science and religion can get awfully tedious. This is not a reflection on my respected interlocutors on these and other pages, but on the state of my own poor mind. It’s [...]
Fr. Richard Rohr on three ways of seeing
There are three ways of seeing this sunset. Grant Erb, Calm Sunset. Click on image for a high-resolution version. See more of Mr. Erb’s work here We have just stumbled across this wonderful piece at the Huffington Post. Written by Fr. Richard Rohr, it does a beautiful job saying what we’ve been trying to say [...]
Did it really have to be like this?
Tor Even Mathisen, Flowing Auroras Over Tromsø, Norway. This is today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD). Clicking on the image will take you to the video. APOD is my home page and it should be yours, too I have never seen an actual aurora, but I could have, twice. The first time, I was [...]
Under an Iranian sky, a Tuscan comes to mind
Babak A. Tafreshi, Crescent Pair. Used by permission of the photographer. The very old Moon and the planet Venus, both in their crescent phase, as seen over Iran’s Alborz Mountains just before sunrise last Friday. Can you see them (the Moon and Venus, not the mountains)? Look closely. Click on the image to get a [...]
Singular Saturn
Those of you who like to figure things out, figure this out. What in the world? We’ll give you a hint: This is a single undoctored image of a portion of Saturn and its rings. Beyond that, it’s up to you to correctly visualize what’s happening here. Click on the image for a high-resolution version [...]
Hearing the whole concerto
Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943). Source: www.sunar.ru It is 1902. You are attending a piano concerto. Imagine it is Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, a personal favorite of ours here at psnt.net, performed by the man himself. But suppose that when the music starts, something sounds wrong; you can’t hear the low tones of [...]
It’s about time someone noticed: the Solar System as art
Io, the innermost satellite of Jupiter. It is the most geologically active body in the Solar System and is covered with hundreds of active volcanoes. The bluish object on Io’s limb is a plume from the volcano known as Prometheus. The plume is 86 miles high. Image taken by the Galileo mission. Source: NASA/JPL The [...]
