This Charming Man

A jumped-up pantry boy, who never knew his place.

jesuisperdu: andrew eargle

jesuisperdu:

andrew eargle

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grayskymorning: Ariele Alasko for Kinfolk

grayskymorning:

Ariele Alasko for Kinfolk

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elsmlpl: Kisho Kurokawa, National Ethnology Museum, 1977

elsmlpl:

Kisho Kurokawa, National Ethnology Museum, 1977

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blaaargh: Andreas Gursky, Copan, 2002

blaaargh:

Andreas Gursky, Copan, 2002

gotraveling: The Copan Building, Sao Paulo, Brazil ~ by Pedro Milanez

gotraveling:

The Copan Building, Sao Paulo, Brazil ~ by Pedro Milanez

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blaaargh: This Is What Hyperspace Travel Would Really Look LikeHundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that’s bullshit—and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier. A team of graduate students from the University of Leicester, UK, has turned their thinking to what astronauts would see when they traveled close to the speed of light, and it turns out it’s nothing like the movies would have us believe. You see, the physicists have realized that you wouldn’t even be able to see any stars, a result of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect—responsible for the changing pitch of a siren as it moves towards or away from you—dictates that when a person moves toward a source of electromagnetic radiation, the speed of approach causes an apparent shift in wavelength. That’s why sirens get higher pitched as they approach you. But in a spacecraft moving at the speed of light, the frequency of light would be shifted so dramatically that it would fall outside the visible spectrum, meaning the astronauts onboard wouldn’t see any starlight at all. Instead, Cosmic Microwave Background—radiation left behind after the Big Bang—would be shifted into the visible spectrum The result: the crew would actually see a central disc of bright light. That means that hyperspace would look like the fuzzy image shown above, and not a thing like the Hollywood version, an example of which is pictured below. Thanks, physics: you just made sci-fi movies even less accurate.  Ha.

blaaargh:

This Is What Hyperspace Travel Would Really Look Like
Hundreds of sci-fi movies have depicted hyperspace travel, where stars appear as streaks of light as the spacecraft in question surges forward. But according to a team of physicists, that’s bullshit—and hyperspace travel would look a whole lot fuzzier.

A team of graduate students from the University of Leicester, UK, has turned their thinking to what astronauts would see when they traveled close to the speed of light, and it turns out it’s nothing like the movies would have us believe.

You see, the physicists have realized that you wouldn’t even be able to see any stars, a result of the Doppler effect. The Doppler effect—responsible for the changing pitch of a siren as it moves towards or away from you—dictates that when a person moves toward a source of electromagnetic radiation, the speed of approach causes an apparent shift in wavelength. That’s why sirens get higher pitched as they approach you.

But in a spacecraft moving at the speed of light, the frequency of light would be shifted so dramatically that it would fall outside the visible spectrum, meaning the astronauts onboard wouldn’t see any starlight at all. Instead, Cosmic Microwave Background—radiation left behind after the Big Bang—would be shifted into the visible spectrum

The result: the crew would actually see a central disc of bright light. That means that hyperspace would look like the fuzzy image shown above, and not a thing like the Hollywood version, an example of which is pictured below. Thanks, physics: you just made sci-fi movies even less accurate. 

image

Ha.

“It is below - ‘down’ - on the threshold where visibility ends and the city’s common practitioners dwell. The raw material of this experiment are the walkers, Wandersmanner, whose bodies follow the cursives and the strokes of an urban ‘text’ they they write without reading. These practitioners employ spaces that are not self-aware; their knowledge if them is as blind as that of one body for another, beloved, body. The paths that interconnect in this network, strange poems of which each body is an element down by and among others, elude being read.”
—   de Certeau, 1987.
4x4 House, Tadao Ando

4x4 House, Tadao Ando

Children’s Museum. Tadao Ando

Children’s Museum. Tadao Ando