Sentences with phrase «seen blackness»

I think I've only seen blackness in abstraction as being an imperative for me, both curatorially and in terms of my academic life.

The Kent, Washington - based Blue Origin is currently developing a vehicle called New Shepard that is designed to take passengers on short suborbital trips so they can experience the thrill of weightlessness and see the blackness of space without the filter of Earth's atmosphere.

But rather than violence and abandonment, he's offered the promise of Wakanda — what the fictional fantasy of Wakanda represents, and, by proxy, what America ought to represent at its best: hope, innovation, opportunity, aspiration for Black youth upon seeing Blackness excel.

«And going around seeing everyone is black, from the president down to the cleaner — you see your blackness in a completely different way.»

One can see the blackness, too, as a pool of water, and water obsessed him.

It's from this place of thankfulness and reverence that I start a more critical examination of how the world sees blackness and, by extension, how the world sees me.»

Not exact matches

The upcoming flights are designed to reach altitudes of more than 65 miles above Earth, high enough to see the curvature of the planet set against the blackness of space.

The reusable rocket and capsule is designed to carry passengers to an altitude of more than 100 miles (62 km) above the planet so they can experience a few minutes of weightlessness and see the curvature of Earth set against the blackness of space.

Hawthorne, for example, in 1859, on the very verge of the Civil War, saw «that pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere.

The second stanza, one long sentence, propels us toward the culminating lines of the poem to learn what the people see: «There in the sudden blackness of the black pall / Of nothing, nothing, nothing — nothing at all.»

Looking outwardly upon universalisms» blackness is the samething thing as looking inwardly past the veiled molecules to see what has been scientifically gestured to be «atomic» nebulas in an atomically designated Cosmos,,,,,,,, you know their fathers (plural) as being but one celestial universe within untold numbers of celestial universes within the Celestial Cosmos.

What those who deny Obama's «blackness» seem to ignore is that categories like this are inherently social and political constructions with a high degree of arbitrariness (on which, see, amongst many writings, Hari Kunzru's wonderful book, THE IMPRESSIONIST, and E.M. Forster's war - time essay, «Racial Exercise»).

From an altitude of 30 kilometers, «you can really see the curvature of Earth and the blackness of space,» says Des Jardins.

-- he saw it: this huge and incredible bright blue planet against the blackness, Earth.

We are now seeing planets in the blackness around other stars, very much in the same way he discovered the faint moon companions around Jupiter.

All the profiles you see on this page are eHarmony singles from around Blackness who we're already helping to discover a more meaningful online dating experience.

A gift too opulent to not be at least partially corrupted, Black Panther contains multiple films in one: the one we get to see and, underneath the CGI afrofuturistic frenzy and celebration of diasporic blackness, what I'll call the «forbidden film,» the one that has been snatched away brutally, the one in which Killmonger succeeds in supplying the Black world with vibranium.

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While the story essentially has the basic frame of an underdog sports film - more specifically, a Rocky film that we've seen before - it fills the cracks with these snippets of black culture and images of blackness.

Believe me when I tell you that Black Panther depicts blackness AND whiteness in ways we have never seen.

You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world that was 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.

It's true what they say about other senses taking over, she'd never seen such blackness or been so blind.

Become part of a new generation of private astronaut - experience the thrill of acceleration to over 3 times the speed of sound and see our beautiful planet from the blackness of space at over 360,000 feet.

In the past, I have looked up close to see only black — and then all but jumped out of my skin as a Greek cross appeared out of the blackness.

Matthew Brannon still has a door seen from the inside but leaning against a wall, and Anne Collier still has her hands holding blackness in place of an open book, but the old pomo defenses still work wonders.

Art historian Richard Schiff has written of these works, «Marden's black reveals its qualities only to those who look and can see its changes... Each area of blackness has its history, its experiential specificity.»

Look for Me All Around You questions if obscurity is the harbinger of futurity, darkness the site of seeing, and blackness the scene of unmasking.

The show is most compelling when it asks the viewer to see earlier works — often outliers in the field of individual careers — in light of new trajectories, or when it pushes blackness beyond the associational and into deeper psychic channels, as in William Pope L's unsettling Blind (2015), a dark window cut from the gallery wall, like a literal aperture or escape hatch.

Van Der Zee's impeccably - dressed figures, Hendricks's slick men, and Thomas's ultra-chic women celebrate blackness, while also insisting that we see black people differently than they see others.

As I strain to see where we are in the blackness, we move through into a larger space barely lit by what comes through its skylights.

«Once you put blackness on someone you don't even see them, the blackness is an obfuscating element that obstructs anything that's behind.»

For all their mystery, for all the taciturnity of their refusal, these paintings lodge the totality of their effect in a sleight of hand through which the material surface of the picture appears to be supplanted by an optical membrane: a resonant film that seems the very envelope of vision, like the blackness you «see» when you shut your eyes.

Everywhere one looks, one sees a political statement; even overhead Cauleen Smith's banners In the Wake (2017) refer to the state of blackness in the contemporary moment.

Also included are pieces by Larry Cook (whose theme is «constructs of blackness») and Michele Montalbano (who overlaps dueling styles of wallpaper) that have been seen at other local venues.

An eye and a small, red - lipped smile can be seen through the pitch blackness inside the egg.

I peeked over my right shoulder for just a second to see this big blue marble just floating in the blackness.