The Earth-Rise T-shirt from Public Domain shows to astronauts standing on the moon during an Earth-rise. Collectively, the two astronauts and the Earth create an image of a skull. Haunting…and yet kind of neat too! [via]
3 Wolves 1 Moon T-shirt
June 24, 2009 @ 10:36 pm
There’s a bit of a funny tale going on around this Three Wolf Moon
Dazed Digital did some research and found out this much:
Calling long distance numbers off random websites isn’t a regular pastime but I’ve been trying to track down artist Antonia Neschev. Born in Sofia in 1962, Neschev graduated from Bulgaria’s National Fine Arts Academy in 1982 (I’m lifting this from her website, you should check it out). She moved to the USA in 1996 and has since pursued a career in art that’s attracted minimal attention. Which is not to make a judgement. It’s just a fact.
Some time towards the end of 2008 a low-key New Hampshire t-shirt company, The Mountain, licensed an image by Neschev of three wolves howling at the moon. The resulting tee is beyond kitsch, goes past irony. It’s probably located somewhere in the realm of the un-wearable. Ignoring all of this though, some time in November one Amazon user posts a five star review of the item, and six months later, May 2009, it’s become the top selling clothing product on the site with sales up 2,300%.
At the time of this post, there are 1155 reviews of this T-shirt that could only be labeled as ironic and tongue-in-cheek because I have a feeling that very few people in this world would truly find this T-shirt attractive. But still, for about $12-$18 (depending on your size) this could be a great impulse buy that will put you in with a very nerdy group of online individuals. And if you’re totally fine with the rest of the world looking at you like you’re crazy, then this might be one deal to take advantage of on Amazon.com.
The sky in motion
January 1, 2009 @ 11:40 pm
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Astronomy Picture of the Day posted this fantastic time-lapse video of over 7000 images that collectively make up the sky in motion. It’s absolutely beautiful from start to finish and I recommend that everyone take some time out to view this 4-minute view of nature at its finest.
A smile and a frown in the sky
December 15, 2008 @ 2:18 am
Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Anwar Amro
This is a bit old, but on Monday, December 1, 2008, Venus, Jupiter and a crescent moon all lined up perfectly in the sky to create the illusion of a smiley face or a sad face (depending on what hemisphere and region you were looking up at the sky from).
It is a pretty rare event that these heavenly bodies line up so perfectly to form an image in the sky and Jack Horkheimer of the Miami Space Transit Planetarium says the next one won’t happen until November 18, 2052. If you missed this past one though, you can see some wonderful faces in the sky at The Frame photo blog.
The first image of the Earth from the Moon
November 19, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
Accord to APOD, this was the very first picture of the Earth taken from the Moon. It was snapped by Lunar Orbiter 1 in 1966 and has since been restored and digitized thanks to advances in technology and imagery.
The photo above is just one of many coming out of the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project which began about 20 years ago and just finished recently. You can see more images of the Moon from the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) at NASA’s website.
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