Artwork showing space debris in low and geostationary Earth orbit. Space debris includes thousands of inactive satellites, fragments of broken up spacecraft and equipment lost by astronauts. This artwork is based on density data, but is not to scale
Picture: EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRAR
This is bad bad bad terrestial Feng Shui! Terrible! We need to clean up that clutter! Oh..ick…it just makes me cranky looking at it. GOD!
This reminds me of Raphaelesque Head exploding which was always an evocative, gorgeous space garbage scene to me. I inexplicably found it in a strip mall in a crap part of Calgary in the mid 80s (I didn’t know what it was at the time…i was a goofy suburban teenager). I loved it so much I drove home to my parents (before the time of the cellphone) explained it best I could, had the presence of mind to mention it was by Dali and they sent me back with a visa. This is how they came to own one of 300 signed prints.
That is the end of my story.
The Dog (1822) by Francisco Goya.
Spider Jerusalem. See large.
Accidentally spilled wine on Spider’s crotch whilst drawing, which seems to have improved the illustration immensely. Still not sure how I feel about that.
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, The Enlightenment, February 1890. From the Thirty-six Ghosts series. The print depicts Jigoku-dayū, a former courtesan, who is shown the errors of her past occupation by a parade of ghost courtesans.
“The images on this page were all generated using a technique I developed to render the mandelbrot set. It’s important to realize that it is not a different fractal from the mandelbrot set, but simply a different way of displaying it. Clicking on some of the images will take you to a normal rendering of the exact same area, but using the traditional mandelbrot technique. Note that even though the images resemble Hindu art, they were actually generated completely automatically, without any sort of human artistic intervention.”
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Julie West
