[meteorite-list] OT: SKYSCAPES, OR SKY ART

[Gerald Flaherty]

Beautiful!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sterling K. Webb" <kelly at bhil.com>
To: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:04 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] OT: SKYSCAPES, OR SKY ART


> Hi,
> 
>    Very quiet night on the List.  Speaking of quiet nights...
>    There a Japanese artist, Kagaya, who is a frequent painter of what
> can only be called "skyscapes," a rather unusual category of art.  I
> call them skyscapes, as opposed to astronomical space art (although he
> does that too), because they depict vivid naked eye views of the sky.
>    These paintings are astronomically accurate, but are far more vivid
> than a real naked eye view because they ignore the contrast effects that
> limit human vision.
>    To see the skies in full splendor, you have to have a dark seeing
> location so black and dark that you literally cannot see your own hand
> in front of your face, with no light source around you brighter than the
> faintest stars (as well as waiting for your eyes to become completely
> dark adapted).
>    But the artist can collapse the contrast range so that all things
> become equally visible, to marvelous results.  Here are a few of his
> skyscapes.
> 
>    Right down our alley. Meteor seen over a lake by a canoeist:
> <http://www.kagayastudio.com/sora/hosibiyori/navigation/index.html>
> 
>    Night sky as seen by a mother and child:
> <http://www.mmbz.com/ysjp/54703/Img8085.jpg>
> 
>    A delightfully peaceful view of the twilight (or is that twi-night)
> sky:
> <http://www.kagayastudio.com/sora/hosibiyori/hosisuzumi/index.html>
> 
>    Here is the artist's general web site:
> <http://www.kagayastudio.com/>
>    The available languages on the site are Japanese, Korean, and
> Chinese, but thankfully everything is thoroughly subtitled in English,
> so it's no trouble for the non-ideographic to navigate.
> 
>    Enjoy.
> 
> 
> Sterling K. Webb
> 
> 
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