Universal laws of safe distance

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Monday 7 January 2013

Wendy MacNaughton is a genius at making these choice illustrations that sum up the human experience simply. This one she did in collaboration with author Caroline Paul shows the Universal Laws of Safe Distance using planets as metaphors. Best to dodge disco balls, and keep your partners (‘most days’, it advises) and pets close to [...]

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Trillions of photos taken from Earth’s orbit over 15 years

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By Jonathan Terhaar in New Art on Friday 21 December 2012

Taking advantage of the phenomenon know as geosynchronous orbit, artist Trevor Paglen worked with anthropologists, scientists and other artists to construct a photographic disk device that he sent into Earth’s orbit to take trillions of photos over a 15 year period. That’s how I understand it, anyways. The installation is called The Last Pictures and [...]

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Now you can suck on the planets as lollipops

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By Low Lai Chow in New Food and Packaging on Saturday 8 September 2012

For a quick exercise in ruling the universe, just shop at Chicago-based Etsy store Vintage Confections, where they offer a 10-piece lollipop set of solar system planets in two flavours: cotton candy and strawberry. Black-flecked at the back with silver edible glitter that pass off as stars, the ten planets in the set are: the Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. 

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