I cannot believe it's already the last lecture and the last assignment. For this week, professor Vesna talked about the space and the art. "Powers of Ten" video shows how much we and the earth are tiny from the space. I knew the universe is so huge, but I realized again that the solar system or the milky way galaxy we know is just a little part of the while universe. The camera zooms out and zooms in by exploring the skin cells and galaxy with using the powers of ten. This video was a good start to introduce how the universe is so far away from us and about its amazingly unending distance.
We are familiar to the solar system and its planets' name through the science class, medias, and so on. Specifically, these planets got the name from the myth characters, for example, Venus, the second planet from the Sun is named after the Roman goddess of beauty and love. This fact tells how humans connect their ideas and thoughts to their discoveries on space.
The picture on the right is the first spacecraft made by Soviet. <http://thisdayintechhistory.com/04/03/first-spacecraft-to-orbit-moon/>
Example of what Xu Zhen performed regarding gravity. <http://zerogravity.empac.rpi.edu/zhen/>
Citations
“Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity at EMPAC.” Art & Education. N.p.. Web. 30 Nov 2012. <http://www.artandeducation.net/announcement/dancing-on-the-ceiling-art-zero-gravity-at-empac/>.
"Powers of Ten (1977)". Web. 26 Aug 2010. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0>.
"Powers of Ten" Web. 2010. <http://powersof10.com/>.
"8 Space Intro" Web. 29 Jul 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dPAmpBiVHY>
"8 Space Part 1" Web. 29 Jul 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIqTR332l8>
"8 Space Part 2" Web. 29 Jul 2013. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLZMDpoP-u0>
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