In
creating images of the sky, the otherwise fixed environment of a constructed landscape gives way to an endless vista extending overhead.
Not exact matches
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 Survey
sky around the bright star Alpha Centauri was
created from photographic
images forming part
of the Digitized
Sky Survey
Sky 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.