TBSP, Reznor style
Cassini Mission from Chris Abbas on Vimeo. Make sure to full-screen it and set it on HD. Read more about it here This is really a wonderful, hypnotizing look at Saturn (tbsp) and its flying circus of rings and moons. It really capitalizes on the beautiful (dare I say haunting) grayscale images that are a [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Straight from the big machine shop in the sky
Binx Bolling, in Walker Percy‘s novel The Moviegoer, says: Beauty is a whore. Ten years I pursued beauty and gave no thought to money. I listened to the lovely tunes of Mahler and felt a sickness in my very soul. Now I pursue money and on the whole feel better. I kind of understand what [...]
