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R.I.P. Cassini

Posted in Manifestos & auguries, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , on September 16, 2017 | 4 Comments »

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…” 62 moons orbiting in and around the grooved rings of Saturn. Winter and spring, hurricanes, jet streams, and auroras. Rivers and deltas pelted by methane rains on Titan. Hydrothermal vented oceans, and geysers shooting plumes of water that fall back as snow on Enceladus. Moons forming spiral waves cresting […]

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Nice or what?

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , on July 17, 2013 | 4 Comments »

The above is (a) beautiful, (b) ugly, (c) neither beautiful nor ugly in itself (nor anything else in particular), or (d) _________ (fill in the blank)? It’s a view (on a particularly hazy day) of the Sheffield wind power project in northeast Vermont, as seen from Crystal Lake State Park beach outside the town of […]

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Elixir as child’s play

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , , , , , , on February 28, 2011 | 7 Comments »

Marina Zurkow’s Elixir videos are wonderful, as is her Renatured blog. (Thanks to Tim for posting about her work.) There is something sad and elemental about them, in their depiction of the self-containedness of our worlds and their ultimate vulnerability in the face of the chaos beyond. At the same time, the title suggests an […]

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pictures of light

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on April 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »

There are some beautiful photographs of Eyjafjallajokull accompanied by the Northern Lights here. (Thanks to Politics Theory Photography for posting on it.) They remind me of one of my favorite films about nature, seeing, and light, Peter Mettler’s Picture of Light (with music by Jim O’Rourke). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scUUJWWE34o&hl=en_US&fs=1&

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ways to shoot starlings

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Media ecology, Visual culture, tagged , , , on January 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »

“Shoot” as in film, photograph, capture and display, but also fly with them, shoot the rapids of their movement, accompany them, become starling. These mesmerizing videos of moving masses of starlings, “murmurations” as they’re called, like other YouTube animal videos, tell us as much about the phenomenon being watched as about those watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH-groCeKbE&hl=en_US&fs=1&

It all gets going here at around the 3’20” mark. But it would be nice if we were given some alternative soundtrack options. Like this one, with no commentary, just a few intertitles, set to the music of Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble:

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solar motion pictures

Posted in Visual culture, tagged on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This is from Gary Palmer’s surreally beautiful Sun in Motion solar video page. Just try to take your eyes off this one.

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spinning the Earth

Posted in Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Philosophy, Spirit matter, Visual culture, tagged , , , , on August 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p86BPM1GV8M&hl=en&fs=1& Just by linking Carl Sagan’s eloquent little Pale Blue Dot to the teachings of Gautama Buddha, James Ure’s Buddhist Blog brings out the buddhism inherent both in Sagan’s words and in the imagery of the Earth from space. That imagery (as I’ve discussed before here and here) is multivalent, but Sagan’s spin on it […]

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Flight Patterns, Earthrise, et al.

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Those links to some of the art pieces Andy Revkin has posted on Dot Earth could be easily missed on my previous post, so I’m posting them separately here. Aaron Koblin’s “Flight Patterns” series animates airplane flight patterns over the United States: Revkin has a brief interview with Koblin as well. I find that the […]

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Earth breathing

Posted in Eco-culture, Visual culture, tagged , on May 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’m not quite sure what to make of this real-time simulation of the Earth’s CO2 emissions and birth and death rates (by country)… But I find myself mesmerized, in particular, by the soundtrack and the way it adds rhythm, along with a sort of creepy (-crawly) beauty, to the map. It is, of course, a […]

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imagination & contemporary theory

Posted in Philosophy, Spirit matter, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is a summary I provided to a grad student who was starting to get into this area. It’s very introductory and far from complete in its coverage, but since there’s so little out there on this topic, I thought it would be useful to post it. It’s also a bit biased towards literature that’s […]

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