Space Crafted – An Interview with the Artist

January 19th, 2012 | Space

Check out the amazing work of Brazilian Artist, Cris Wiegandt.  She hails from São Paulo, Brazil, but she has been living in Europe for the past 12 years (now based out of Berlin).  She created this piece for the agency Ressourcenmangel GmbH for a business pitch, but unfortunately they didn’t win.  Regardless of the business outcome, we are happy to have these lasting images of the meticulously crafted shuttle.
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  The gray background accents the soft palette quite nicely here. Something tells me Cris would have been very good at creating model cars/ships as a child…

I tracked down Cris through the interweb, and she was nice enough to answer a few questions about how she made it, and about her career as an artist.

How did you go about making the space shuttle? Was it modeled after a specific shuttle?

“[The company] sent me a picture of a space shuttle and the colors I should use. It was a picture found at google [space shuttle unknown].  I made the craft completely by hand. First I made some scribbles about how to build it together, the size of the parts and how to glue it. Then it was more or less just trying and putting everything together.”

What inspired you to enter the field of art?

“Definitly Michel Gondry and music, especially David Bowie, Björk and MPB (musica poplar brasileira).”

How did you choose to focus in animation and design?

“I think I can’t say that it was a choice.
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I was the only option for me. The only thing I could imagine to do.”

How would you like to see your career develop as an artist?

“I hope I will have more nice and creative projects where I can develop my artistic way and continue living as an artist.”

Make sure to take a gander at Cris’ website for crafts, animations, video, and more.  I hope someone hires her to create more Spacecraft in the future.
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  I’d like to see the ISS, or maybe a Soyuz next.

-RSB

Moon Games

January 16th, 2012 | Space

Laurent Laveder is the landscape astrophotographer and astronomy journalist who is responsible for these great moon photos.  They have been published in a small book in France, found here. Laurent took these pictures on a beach near his home in France with the help of his girlfriend, Sabine (seen in several of the photos).

Check out his website for more of his photography and other moon shots.

Enjoy!

-RSB

Animations of Unseeable Biology

January 15th, 2012 | Brain

Science is often intimidating and inaccessible, and it can be a problem for anyone attempting to grasp the unseeable world.  Drew Berry‘s animations let you see inside the cell at the molecular level, and the results are amazing.  They are both scientifically accurate and aesthetically beautiful.
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I am happy for the future students that will get to see these animations in school.

-RSB

[via The Loom]

p.s. I also like Dr. Baxter’s attempt to achieve something similar back in 1957.
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Skeletonics Exoskeleton

January 14th, 2012 | Robot

Check out this great video from the Skeletonics group demoing their Exoskeleton.  I believe this was some sort of college-level engineering project.
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You won’t find any source of external power on that suit – pistons, batteries, or motors – so unfortunately, it won’t give you any super strength, but it has impressive stability and reach.
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  I want one.

Someone should make a how-to for the suit.
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-RSB

Atlantis

January 10th, 2012 | Space

All good spaceships must come to an end.   Take a last look through these photos of the retired  Space Shuttle Atlantis, which undertook 33 missions between the years of 1985 to 2011.

Among its accomplishments are that it was the 1st shuttle to launch an interplanetary probe, it launched the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and it also made several vital trips in the construction of the International Space Station.

Great retro controls!

-RSB

[via CollectSpace.com]

10 Moons

January 9th, 2012 | Space

Saturn’s Rhea

Jupiter’s Europa

Jupiter’s Callisto

Jupiter’s Io

Earth’s Moon Transiting The Sun

Saturn’s Mimas – aka Death Star

Mars’ Phobos

Neptune’s Triton

Uranus’ Oberon

Jupiter’s Ganymede

Check out this collection of spectacular moon photos I saw on the Mother Nature Network, and learn a bit about our solar system in the process.  A lot of the photos have different filters to make them look extra special, but they are interesting nonetheless.  I thought it would be cool to learn all of the moons of the solar system, but I found out there are more than 170, so that could be quite challenging.  Did you know Jupiter, alone, has 63 moons!?

-RSB

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