Mars, showing the southern ice cap All this hoopla about Mars being closer to Earth than it has been in 50,000 years is interesting, especially because, even with backyard equipment, you can witness Mars melting right before your eyes.
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Dog days of summer….not much to blog. Arf!
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The Blue Lagoon, near Reykjavik, Iceland. I’ve always wanted to go to Iceland. I don’t know why, but I’m drawn to the north and the barrens. Today I found a travelogue of a trip to Iceland last year undertaken by Sky and Telescope writer Paul Deans. It just reinforced my desire to go there. If i had US$2775, I might consider this trip for myself. There’s no question it would make great blogging material…
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Fountain Monument Robert Smithson – Monuments of Passaic The American sculpter and landscape artist Robert Smithson has a website containing drawings, films, photographs and writings. Much of his art plays with maps and scrawls on both the literal and metaphorical landscape. In the late 1960s he fell in with a bunch of artisits who were playing with the ideas of monuments, messing with the notions of time, marking, remembrance and location that define monuments. Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future…They are not built …
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At CBC they have recently been discussing the redesign of cities and a beautiful and thought provoking flash presentation called Visionary Cities has been put up at CBC Webone. On it are clips and photos on preserving urban nature, honouring the past, and creating user friendly spaces. And if you read nothing more, the looped soundtrack consisting of a uniquely Canadian soundscape of water, wind, loons, traffic, children playing, crickets and other elements is a great wall of sound to bring a few minutes of relaxation to your day.