Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Hurricane Isaac

You know you've made it when you have a tropical storm named after you...

Hurricane Isaac by Night. Image Credit: NASA/NOAA, Earth Observatory

Hurricane Isaac by Night

NASA image acquired August 29, 2012 1:57 a.m EDT

Hurricane Isaac lit up by moonlight as it spins over the city of New Orleans, La. at 1:57 am central daylight savings time the morning of August 29, 2012. The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite captured these images with its Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). The "day-night band" of VIIRS detects light in a range of wavelengths from green to near-infrared and uses light intensification to enable the detection of dim signals.

Image Credit: NASA/NOAA, Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using VIIRS Day Night Band data.

Credit: NASA Earth Observatory

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tsukuba

TSUKUBA I by Arata Isozaki
TSUKUBA II by Arata Isozaki
TSUKUBA III by Arata Isozaki

Screen prints by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki. As well as being an architect, Isozaki works in many fields including philosophy, art, design, cinematography and theatre. Since 1977 he has made over 200 print works collected in a series called "120 Invisible Cities", published by Toki no Wasuremono.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Science & Technology

Came across these great illustrations on tumblr, couldn't find any more information (on the interweb) on them other than they appear to be from an exhibition of "50 years of Soviet Science and Technology. KGM, Budapest, 1967":

Space Exploration: 50 years of the soviet science and technology exhibition. KGM, Budapest, 1967
Nuclear Physics: 50 years of the soviet science and technology exhibition. KGM, Budapest, 1967 Quantum Electronics: 50 years of the soviet science and technology exhibition. KGM, Budapest, 1967

Space Race

Sputnik 1 by Justin Van Genderen

Great series of posters by Justin Van Genderen which depict Russian ‘victories’ during the early space race.

Vostok 1 by Justin Van GenderenVoskhod 2 by Justin Van Genderen
Luna Program by Justin Van Genderen

Justin is also responsible for the very nice series of Minimalist Planets and Comic Book Travel Posters.

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