[meteorite-list] OT: SKYSCAPES, OR SKY ART
From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue May 31 08:24:09 2005 Message-ID: <001401c565db$a05a8fe0$2f01a8c0_at_Dell> Beautiful! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly_at_bhil.com> To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:04 AM Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: SKYSCAPES, OR SKY ART > Hi, > > Very quiet night on the List. Speaking of quiet nights... > There a Japanese artist, Kagaya, who is a frequent painter of what > can only be called "skyscapes," a rather unusual category of art. I > call them skyscapes, as opposed to astronomical space art (although he > does that too), because they depict vivid naked eye views of the sky. > These paintings are astronomically accurate, but are far more vivid > than a real naked eye view because they ignore the contrast effects that > limit human vision. > To see the skies in full splendor, you have to have a dark seeing > location so black and dark that you literally cannot see your own hand > in front of your face, with no light source around you brighter than the > faintest stars (as well as waiting for your eyes to become completely > dark adapted). > But the artist can collapse the contrast range so that all things > become equally visible, to marvelous results. Here are a few of his > skyscapes. > > Right down our alley. Meteor seen over a lake by a canoeist: > <http://www.kagayastudio.com/sora/hosibiyori/navigation/index.html> > > Night sky as seen by a mother and child: > <http://www.mmbz.com/ysjp/54703/Img8085.jpg> > > A delightfully peaceful view of the twilight (or is that twi-night) > sky: > <http://www.kagayastudio.com/sora/hosibiyori/hosisuzumi/index.html> > > Here is the artist's general web site: > <http://www.kagayastudio.com/> > The available languages on the site are Japanese, Korean, and > Chinese, but thankfully everything is thoroughly subtitled in English, > so it's no trouble for the non-ideographic to navigate. > > Enjoy. > > > Sterling K. Webb > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Tue 31 May 2005 08:24:00 AM PDT |
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