If you’re disappointed in your species, here’s a story to give you hope (and clean your tear ducts)
The Coma Cluster of Galaxies from the NASA APOD Archive.
Allora & Calzadilla collaborated with author Ted Chiang on their video installation The Great Silence, which centers on the world’s largest radio telescope in Esperanza, Puerto Rico— home to the last remaining population of a critically endangered species of parrots, Amazona vittata.
(I copy my favorite writing into a notebook, hoping to figure out how they were created.)
The Arecibo telescope, from the National Geographic.
Amazona vittata photo by Tom MacKenzie from Wikimedia Commons.
Continue reading The Great Silence.
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December 9th, 2016 at 18:15
Fabuloush!
December 9th, 2016 at 20:10
You are right about Ted Chiang. reading an ebook version of his short stories now :)
December 9th, 2016 at 21:16
I love this line: It’s no coincidence that “aspiration” means both hope and the act of breathing.
December 10th, 2016 at 19:33
Please patent and turn your handwriting into a font – this and the kabit-kabit (cursive?) version. Para sa mga kagaya kong pangit ang sulat kamay. :D
December 11th, 2016 at 09:42
sizzlingsuzie: No thanks, but I recommend taking up penmanship as a therapeutic hobby.