The above image was created by Reddit user DannyBoy7783 using NASA and ESA photos. It shows horizontally aligned slices of landscapes from every celestial body that human-made robots have landed on and photographed. What a dreamy composition. In recent news, The Rosetta probe recently landed on comet 67P.
This weekend I visited the Marilyn Minter retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA). All the work was captivating in beautiful and disgusting way. Her juxtaposition of glamor and grit, of the revealing and the disturbing, and of the intimate and the amplified shown throughout the entire show. The title Pretty/Dirty couldn’t have been more apt. A great review of the exhibit can be found at Hyperallergic.
“Pop Rocks” by Marilyn Minter
I was more impressed with her paintings than her photographs or videos. Above is a full-sized photo of Minter’s painting “Pop Rocks”. It’s a gigantic 9 feet by 15 feet. Outside of their sheer size and incredible detail, I’m fascinated by the process used to create them. The paintings start as heavily mixed and manipulated Photoshop negatives taken from earlier photo shoots. This new image is then turned into paintings created through multiple layers of translucent enamel paint on aluminum giving a rich hallucinatory look.
The final layer is applied with fingertips to create a softening of the paintbrush lines. And when you look closely you can see evidence of fingerprints and smudges all over her works. Below is a detail of the condensation from “Pop Rocks”
Detail of “Pop Rocks” by Marilyn Minter
The Marilyn Minter retrospective will be showing at MCA through the month so hurry up and go see it while you can. You can find a few more of my photos from the exhibit below.
Image credit: Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual
This incredible photo was taken by Isaac Gutiérrez Pascual in Spain way back early September of 2010. I features a large cumulonimbus cloud at sunset along with a crescent moon converged with venus. It’s images like this that have resulted in me bcoming a full fledged member of the Cloud Appreciation Society
via APOD
What would it be like to see a sunset on Mars? Not all that spectacular really. Interestingly, the colors of a Martian sunset are almost the opposite of a sunset here on earth with the sky being a reddish hue and the glow around the sun being blue.
Photo courtesy of NASA
It is crazy to think about the fact that, outside of Michael Collins, every human being, living or dead, was contained within the frame of this picture.
Image via NASA.
As always, click the image for wallpaper size.
A scanned image of Denver’s 16th Street Mall during the holiday season of 1963.
via The Denver Eye
This photo of H.R., lead singer of Bad Brains, smoking weed with a supposed Brooke Shields has been circling the internet like crazy the last couple of days.
Photo Courtesy of @davehill77
Although it would be incredible if this really happened, I’m sorry to say I’m 99.9% sure that isn’t really Brooke Shields. Which is too bad because it would have been the best picture ever if it was. However, don’t be too let down, Brooke actually has some strong punk rock roots. First off, Brooke did have an actual photo shoot with punk originator Stiv Bators, lead singer of the Dead Boys.
The above interview from Efrom Allen’s Underground TV was taken during the photo shoot with Stiv Bators. It aired on Manhattan Cable’s public access channel in the 1970s. The 12-year-old Brooke Shields actually gets a little flirty with the American punk rock innovator.
Furthering her punk rock roots, Shields opens up Agent Orange’s song ‘Bloodstain’ for the ‘Rondey On The ROQ Volume 1’ compilation. The album also includes rougher versions songs from the Circle Jerks, U.X.A., Black Flag, and Circle Jerks. Have a listen: Agent Orange – Bloodstains
