Planetarium On The Territory Of A Children’s Sanatorium. St. Petersburg.

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New art- space exploration / shop

Beautiful footage taken last night in Monterrey, Mexico, there is still a question as to whether it is an asteroid entering the Earth's atmosphere and creating this beautiful meteor, or whether it is the reentry of a rocket stage or space junk.

wheres that picture of like the performers at the bolshoi or somewhere reading about gagarin going into space during intermission while all still in costume

“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens (‘wise man’). In any case it’s an arrogant and bigheaded thing to say, wisdom being one of our least evident features. In reality, we are Pan narrans, the storytelling chimpanzee.”

— Terry Pratchett (via hot-elf)

Earth Views

the fact elon mask genuinely might ruin the night sky for everyone makes me wanna sharpen my shovel and get to work

Ai Weiwei, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn,” 1995

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good…including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.