{"id":1802,"date":"2010-10-29T15:27:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2010-10-29T15:31:45","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:31:45","slug":"my-oort-cloud-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=1802","title":{"rendered":"My Oort Cloud Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>~ Click on images to view full-size on original site ~<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1803\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11569293@N07\/5088765512\/sizes\/l\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1803\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1803\" title=\"5088765512_07a3864b1f_b by tohu777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5088765512_07a3864b1f_b-by-tohu777.jpg?resize=545%2C247\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1803\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled by tohu777 (on Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1804\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11569293@N07\/5088765512\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1804\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1804\" title=\"tohu777-comment\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tohu777-comment.png?resize=516%2C162\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comment posted to the above image on Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In defense of Valerie, tohu777&#8217;s image fooled me too.\u00a0 I thought it was an art installation out in some desert somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Even now I&#8217;m not so sure it&#8217;s not a real photograph.\u00a0 But of course, what difference does it really make?<\/p>\n<p>It makes a difference.\u00a0 For some reason it&#8217;s just <em>different<\/em> when you find out an image is not made from what you thought it was.\u00a0 But in this case, because the image is so incredibly realistic (would the real thing would be more vivid?) and also because the image has such great artistic interest, I can&#8217;t look at it without seeing something real and as relevant as the real world.\u00a0 <em>It has become real.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good art invents itself.<\/p>\n<p>What is artistic about it?\u00a0 A lot of hyper-realistic 3D imagery is boring when placed in a non-technical context.\u00a0 In itself, realism is a rather empty goal because reality is common.\u00a0 I said similar things in a previous post, <a href=\"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=388\">Reinventing the Real<\/a>.\u00a0 But this image doesn&#8217;t merely attempt to fake the photographic look, it presents something that&#8217;s interesting and thought-absorbing regardless of its graphical origins.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arctic<\/li>\n<li>another planet<\/li>\n<li>crash-landed ship or protruding alien city tower?<\/li>\n<li>the highly fabricated mesh around the tower makes me want to check what <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> standing on<\/li>\n<li>the sun (or whatever) is setting and it&#8217;s going to get cold<\/li>\n<li>what was built first? the tower or the bent superstructure around it?\u00a0 Was it <em>designed<\/em> to look bent?<\/li>\n<li>no one has been here for a thousand years (or since the last heavy snowfall)<\/li>\n<li>such intense human activity punctuating such a vast expanse of emptiness<\/li>\n<li>on most days the sun is the only viewer<\/li>\n<li>I hope this wasn&#8217;t the rescue ship I&#8217;ve been waiting for<\/li>\n<li>there&#8217;s got to be a door in there somewhere<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_1805\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11569293@N07\/5035737086\/sizes\/l\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1805\" title=\"5035737086_41ef583cec_b by tohu777\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5035737086_41ef583cec_b-by-tohu777.jpg?resize=545%2C247\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled by tohu777 (Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Not far from the first one, in Flickr-land, I stumbled on this.<\/p>\n<p>Flotsam on a remote space beach?\u00a0 When an asteroid cleans out its pockets, it\u00a0 all ends up somewhere.\u00a0 Are there hurricanes in space?<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/11569293@N07\/\">tohu777&#8217;s Flickr photostream<\/a> for more scenes transmitted from a distant star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>~ Click on images to view full-size on original site ~ In defense of Valerie, tohu777&#8217;s image fooled me too.\u00a0 I thought it was an art installation out in some desert somewhere. Even now I&#8217;m not so sure it&#8217;s not a real photograph.\u00a0 But of course, what difference does it really make? It makes a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=1802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/orbittrap.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/5088765512_07a3864b1f_b-by-tohu777.jpg?fit=600%2C272","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":362,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=362","url_meta":{"origin":1802,"position":0},"title":"Fractal Woodburning","author":"Tim","date":"28 January, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not making this up.\u00a0 I went surfing about to see what I could find in the fractal world and lo and behold at Flickr, a couple of pages into a search on the term \"fractal\", I saw wires, boards and strange, curly burn patterns.photo by AetherPhoto caption from Aether's\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":248,"url":"http:\/\/orbittrap.ca\/?p=248","url_meta":{"origin":1802,"position":1},"title":"Spider Writing","author":"Tim","date":"10 November, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Block-waving is all about lines. 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