{"id":438011,"date":"2010-03-16T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12802"},"modified":"2010-03-16T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T14:38:00","slug":"artwork-of-death-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/438011","title":{"rendered":"Artwork of DEATH! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I wrote about an art exhibit in NYC based on my book <em>Death from the Skies!<\/em> Brian George, one of the artists who put this exhibit together, just <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/carbonbasedart.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/death-from-skies-exhibition.html\">posted a very cool blog entry<\/a> about it too. <\/p>\n<p>He posted some great picture on Picasa, which you can see in the slideshow below or <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/108621824935534954086\/Crosshairs#\">on Picasa directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"embeddedvideo\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" width=\"610\" height=\"406\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\"><\/iframe><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>I am totally blown away by the sculpture <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/108621824935534954086\/Crosshairs#5440837844315935986\">Solar Flares and CMEs<\/a>. In the book, I describe how the tangling of the Sun&#8217;s magnetic field lines is like a bag full of springs under tension. How I pictured that in my head is almost exactly duplicated by that piece.<\/p>\n<p>I could not get to NYC for the exhibit, but I really wish I had. The artwork is amazing, almost as amazing as the feeling I get thinking that a book I wrote for my own nefarious purposes actually inspired a group of artists to create such wonderful and astonishing pieces. My thanks to all of them for swelling my head just a little bit more.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sSPYskgBSfGmdwxd0TwlGlev3eE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sSPYskgBSfGmdwxd0TwlGlev3eE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sSPYskgBSfGmdwxd0TwlGlev3eE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/sSPYskgBSfGmdwxd0TwlGlev3eE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/b1UREKQuE7w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/17y9W5U0MV4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I wrote about an art exhibit in NYC based on my book Death from the Skies! Brian George, one of the artists who put this exhibit together, just posted a very cool blog entry about it too. He posted some great picture on Picasa, which you can see in the slideshow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}