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Tag: geology
January 6, 2014
These giant pastel icebergs by Zaria Forman are stunning. #whoa
From top to bottom: “Greenland #52”, “Greenland #62”, “Greenland #54.” By Zaria Forman. Via Colossal.
October 7, 2013
European Space Agency can serve your imagery fix whilst NASA is down. #planetearthispretty
Colossal (and Devid Sketchbook) provides this awesome option.
Luckily there’s still at least one space agency still publishing photos of space (and space from Earth), the European Space Agency. The ESA has an incredible Observing the Earth archive that’s updated every week and each satelitte image is usually accompanied by a brief essay to explain a bit about what you’re looking at.
Now for the whoa part:
Via Colossal (and Devid Sketchbook)
April 20, 2013
What I learned today: apparently volcanoes can puff smoke rings
These were “puffed” by Mount Etna in 2000. Apparently, she recently did it again.
January 16, 2013
Vintage National Geographic Images
Charles Bittinger, Eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, 1930s
Vittorio Sella, A Cascade of Weathered Ice Spills From the 14 Square Mile Glacier, Karagour Glacier, Caucasus Mountains, Russia, 1910s
Pierre Mion, Habitat in Space, 1970s
On display at the Steven Kasher Gallery until February 16th, 2013
January 10, 2013
This has to be the coolest memo pad I’ve ever seen: Topographically accurate too.
“A memo pad that looks as if it has been cut directly out of the earth’s crust. The earth’s surface seems to be whittled away as the pages of the pad are used, and the pattern of the geographical features and the coastal lines changes. A memo pad that lets you enjoy the same kind of sensation you get from diving down into the ocean.”
Available from geografia. Via Stacy Thinx.
January 9, 2013
Giant Sculpture Awaits Climate Change and Subsequent Sea Level Rise
“One of the known environmental changes that is happening is the rising of the sea level through global warming. It is critical to me that at the time of its making this work reacts with the viewer, the walking viewer, on the top of the polder and that the surface that the viewer stands on is the surface that the work stands on. The work cannot have a plinth. Over time, should the rising of the sea level mean that there has to be a rising of the dike, this means that there should be a progressive burying of the work.”
Piece and quote by Antony Gormley. Via My Modern Met.
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