Professor Shanhui Fan (left) and graduate student Sid Assawaworrarit have developed a device that can wirelessly charge a moving
object at close range.
The tiny scale of the photo seems particularly well suited to the intimacy of scrutinizing
objects at close range, and astute observers will notice that the image of the postage stamp depicts the ships sailed by Columbus, the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Not exact matches
If so, Phoebe has given astronomers their first opportunity to study an
object from distant space
at close range.
Now, a study led by Rankin's student Haley Wahl suggests companion
objects orbiting the pulsars
at close range could trigger the swoosh.
From RV observations a dearth of companions with masses between 10 - 40 MJup has been noticed
at close separations, suggesting the possibility of a distinct formation mechanism for
objects above and below this
range.
Drawn in by the beauty of his
objects, which are covered with sgraffito drawing, handwritten and stenciled text, transferred photographs, and sumptuous glaze,
at close range viewers apprehend darker subjects and narrative hints to environmental disaster and child abuse.
At a distance, the objects appear to come alive in a beautiful setting but at close range they reveal an environmental catastroph
At a distance, the
objects appear to come alive in a beautiful setting but
at close range they reveal an environmental catastroph
at close range they reveal an environmental catastrophe.
Other creations
range from an a piano lid that opens and
closes automatically, 39 metronomes simultaneously ticking
at different speeds and everyday
objects collected into sequences and series.
By photographing paint and luxurious ephemera
at close range, then using the resulting image as his subject, Ben Charles Weiner creates works that pose a confusion of
object, subject and medium.