Artwork and book about clouds
Martin John Callanan, artist-in-residence at University College London's Environment Institute, used satellite data to create a small 300mm terrestrial globe depicting cloud coverage from a single second in time. He first showed the work, titled A Planetary Order, last week at an event also celebrating the publication of Extraordinary Clouds, a new book by the UCL Environment Institute's writer-in-residence, Richard Hamblyn. The cloud-themed projects are profiled in a short video from the university. "UCL writer and artist-in-residence look to the skies"
Previously:
- Weird ice balls in London? - Boing Boing
- Clouds that look like UFOs - Boing Boing
- Are these awesome clouds a result of the shuttle launch? - UPDATED ...
- Night-shining clouds - Boing Boing
- Boing Boing: Tropospheric clouds that are half-rainbow
- Boing Boing: Crazy "lenticular mammatus" clouds over Joplin, MO
- Weird clouds in Hastings, Nebraska, 2004 - Boing Boing
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is 30cm small? That ismassive for digital manufacturing
If you follow the links back to Callanan's website http://greyisgood.eu/globe it says the globe was made at the Bartlett School of Architecture in SLS (that uses nylon), and the globe is 30cm - that's huge - looks like the biggest their machine can handle. Glad I didn't get the bill for that!
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/35173976@N06/sets/72157620940347984/