Sentences with phrase «creating images of the sky»

In creating images of the sky, the otherwise fixed environment of a constructed landscape gives way to an endless vista extending overhead.

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Last week's opening ceremony for the Pyeongchang Winter Games featured a truly incredible display: hundreds of illuminated drones flying together to create images in the sky.
Another evening and morning, and again good was not good enough, so he spent the fourth day hanging lights in the firmament, the fifth calling swarming things to swarm in the sea and birds to hover on the face of the sky, the sixth filling the earth with animals and creating man male and female in his image.
«This image is beautiful and harrowing at the same time,» says Wolf, who deliberately left the sky and ground out of frame to create the illusion of indeterminable size.
Such sensitivities are only available now with the NuSTAR satellite [launched in June 2012] which is designed to create images of the high energy X-ray sky sharper than ever before,» he adds.
In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.
Another lead comes from the Chandra Deep Field South, an image created by a space - based x-ray telescope that observed the same patch of sky for a cumulative 81 days.
As a unique and powerful tool for discovery MUSE uses 24 spectrographs to separate light into its component colours to create both images and spectra of selected regions of the sky.
This allows astronomers to make a mosaic image of any size... so they created this astonishing map of the constellations Cassiopeia (the Queen) and Cepheus (the king), covering over 1000 square degrees of sky!
The Caltech Center for Advanced Computing Research's VOEventNet project, which created a virtual observatory by linking a number of telescopes, introduced a software program this week that works with Sky, allowing users to post and view images and video of transient phenomena such as exploding and colliding stars, gamma - ray bursts, and supernovae within minutes of their detection.
Their two digital SLRs, equipped with fisheye lenses and GPS units, captured two simultaneous all - sky images that the researchers combined to create a 3D photograph of the aurora and measure the emission altitude.
Most of the images used to illustrate the RCW catalog were created using the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey, with red = hydrogen - alpha, blue = UKST Blue and green = UKST Infrared.
According to my correspondence with the Royal Observatory Edinburgh and the Space Telescope Science Institute, I am allowed to use the POSS - II / UKSTU data to create and display images for non-commercial purposes so long as I include this fine print for the SuperCOSMOS data: Use of these images is courtesy of the UK Schmidt Telescope (copyright in which is owned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council of the UK and the Anglo - Australian Telescope Board) and the Southern Sky Survey as created by the SuperCOSMOS measuring machine and are reproduced here with permission from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
This image was created using the POSS - II / UKSTU data of the Digitized Sky Survey using the process described here.
This wide - field view of the sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky Surveysky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was created from photographic images forming part of the Digitized Sky SurveySky Survey 2.
This detailed, all - sky image of the universe's first days was created using nine years of data collected by NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP).
And Mendes and his cinematographer, Roger Deakins, create some surreal stage pictures — of soldiers against a sky turned a malignant charcoal by distant burning oil wells, of the protagonist sitting beside charred remains of men around what once was a campfire, an image out of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
They have traditionally created their illustrations with a mix of graphite and Photoshop drawings, but for Ocean Meets Sky, they experimented with some entirely digital images.
Genre and quality count, but beware the clones posted at Sky Diary: The Blog, saying, «Book cover images should be relevant to your genre and content, but the wrong photo might create a clone of another book's look.
Setting your camera on top of a reflective surface, such as a car roof, can create a beautiful foreground for your image with the reflection of the sky.
Comprised of layered shots of pale pink cherry blossoms against a bright blue sky, the video uses electronic processing techniques to transform and manipulate the delicate images, creating a dynamic convergence of the natural forms of the blossoms and the technological form of the medium on which they are captured.
Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.
In this selection of works on paper from the Kemper Museum's Permanent Collection, artists capture the sky's illumination, creating abstract or representational images of their perceptions.
«Whatever the initial stimulus — be it sky, water, light, earth — I work to create a visual sense of the threshold between light and matter, the image and the imagined,» explains Gundersen.
Wilson's watercolours are often large but these small images, delicately painted onto squares of tissue paper, flutter in invisible air currents created by the viewer suggesting the movement of clouds in the sky.
The juxtaposition of the images creates a dialogue between the night sky and another kind of spatial exploration on the picture plane, such as an engineer's drawing of a ship or a desert floor.
With his recent collages of photographs and ink on paper drawings (titled after the location of the photographs) images of sky and cloud formations create dynamic and resonant frames to the inserted
Using Paul Bowles» novel The Sheltering Sky as a point of departure, Amy Granat created an immersive environment of projected images for her 2010 exhibition at The Kitchen, NYC.
Represented by one small canvas, an abstracted landscape of two red hills, with a modest little sun riding the skies above them, Bess signals the underlying logic of the show: the enduring human need to create images, to make pictures.
Longo's seventh floor sky bridge installation presents a cropped image of a charcoal on paper American flag drawing, Untitled (Berlin Flag, 2012), and was created by the artist in a dark, seductive chiaroscuro.
Whether images of mysterious illuminated disks floating in the sky or fantastical landscapes — created by rephotographing, photocopying, and otherwise altering bits of found imagery — Wasow plays with the human propensity to invest form with meaning, offering just enough detail to spur the imagination.
These images create the illusion of an interior under construction with unfinished wooden beams and a roofless structure open to the sky.
Latvian - American artist Vija Celmins creates incredibly realistic images of the intricate patterns that underlie the natural world, such as sea waves, stars in the sky, and spider webs.
The object of her attention is a starry night sky, an image that she has been painstakingly creating by applying paint, rethinking, sanding it off, and adding more.
Barbara Takenaga has created a new work of an unprecedented scale for a 100 foot wall in the Hunter Center lobby at MASS MoCA.The mural features a new image from her series, Nebraska Paintings, a body of work that moves closer to the representational imagery only implied in earlier pieces, but which captures the wide open spaces and big sky of the artist's native state.
In Syed's film, Panopticon Letters: Missive I, the Thames is juxtaposed with different images of false skies and backgrounds to create a feeling of dissonance within the projected notion of harmony between water and sky.
Created in 1991, the year of his long - term partner's death from AIDS, the two pendant images of ethereal skies can be seen as a significant final double portrait.
The artist's practice is to photorealistically reproduce images of surfaces or skies in order to create artworks that are at once representational and completely abstract.
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