New Gigantic Telescopes Will Crack the Secrets of the Skies
At projected costs ranging from $900 million to $1.6 billion each, the Giant Magellan Telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope — which will have segmented mirrors measuring 24.5 meters, 30 meters and 39.3 meters across, respectively — will dwarf existing optical telescopes (the current largest is 10.4 meters).
Scientists hope the competing telescopes — all expected to be running within a decade — will enable them to observe the early universe… “We’re basically talking about the gap between 100 million and 500 million years after the universe began; that’s the time when the first stars and chemical elements and black holes and other exotica came into existence for the first time.”
Steven Harrington, “Insideout Film: The Studio of Steven Harrington”
Cited as the leader of a contemporary Californian psychedelic-pop aesthetic, Los Angeles–based artist and designer Steven Harrington is best known for his bright, iconic style that encourages a two-way conversation between the artist and viewer. (stevenharrington.com)
“There is the potential for much more spontaneity with prints than there is with the sculpture, which tends to be very slow, accretive kind of process—labor intensive.”
—Martin PuryearIn a new video from the Exclusive series, current 100 Artists featured artist, Martin Puryear, discusses his interest in printmaking, shown working at the Paulson Bott Press in Berkeley, California, in 2002.
WATCH: Martin Puryear: Printmaking
(via printmakersopenforum)
Yasuaki Onishi’s Installation “reverse of volume” 2012
Yasuaki Onishi’s Installation, “reverse of volume” at Rice University Gallery, 2012
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