Incredible "light paintings". If you have ever seen the Sprint commercials with animations created using flashlights, then you get the concept. These photographs, by Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke, however, are far more striking. The landscapes are beautiful; I particularly like the shots in Norway, where you can see the Aurora Borealis.
Gorgeous satellite photography of our amazing planet.
The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.
Despite the fact that I can't seem to come up with posts to populate the other categories, there is now a new one: Architecture & Environmental Design. This is something I have been quite interested in for quite a while now (I did go to school for 5 years to study it), so maybe I can turn my interest into deep, prolific reflections on said subject.I am going to put my money on that not being the case, but who knows, I have felt somewhat... inspired as of late.
Regardless, new subject - first post:
David Pogue just wrote an article about the Enertia House, a house which regulates its climate throughout the year, by creating its own atmosphere. Very cool concept:
The sunspace is always on the south, or the side that’s within 35 degrees of south. It connects to the attic, which connects to the space between the double north walls, which connects to the basement. There are metal grilles in the sunspace floor to complete the convection loop.
Read more (or buy yourself a house) at enertia.com. And on the same note (that of using less energy to survive), The Hummer Is Dead. Long live the Hummer?
