Photography
March 22, 2012

Hauntingly Beautiful Long Exposures

Combining their talents in performance art and photography, Aloyse Blair and Janelle Pietrzak teamed up to create their first solo exhibition, a series of large, vivid color photographs entitled Liminal Rites. The two artists have been collaborating for almost two decades, combining their friendship with artistic integrity to produce these stunning results. “Liminal” is an unstable threshold through which transformation occurs, shifting from one state to the next.

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Astronomy
March 20, 2012

NASA’s Infrared Sky Comprised of 2.7 Million Images

NASA recently unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky, which includes more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. It is comprised of more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light, capturing everything from nearby asteroids to distant galaxies. The sky can be thought of as a sphere that surrounds us in three dimensions.

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Architecture
March 16, 2012

Old Church Converted into a Modern Bookstore

We've seen some breathtaking libraries in the past and this bookstore is no exception when it comes to innovative design. One branch of the popular Dutch bookstore chain Selexyz can be found right inside of a 13th century Dominican church in Maastricht, Holland. The project known as Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht, designed by architecture firm Merkx + Girod, exemplifies a brilliant union between the opposing aesthetics.

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Art
March 14, 2012

Magnificent Giant Sculptures of Everyday Objects

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen's collaborative creations of monumental sculptures make you look twice as they take ordinary objects and enlarge them. Oldenburg notes, “We feel free to use all the approaches that come naturally to our non-monumental works: variations in scale, similes, transformations, a wide range of materials, and, of course, our use of familiar objects.

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My Modern Met

Celebrating creativity and promoting a positive culture by spotlighting the best sides of humanity—from the lighthearted and fun to the thought-provoking and enlightening.