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March 10, 2005
Thursday
 
 
Art for the 21st century
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland/Laramie, Wy)  Arts & Entertainment

Jim Plaxco of the National Space Society tried some creative processing of Mars image data with artistic rather than scientific goals in mind. Some of the results are quite to my taste; others are more for lovers of the abstract.

I cannot help but imagine art such as this in the lobby of some Martian corporate headquarters or perhaps in the Marsport Bigelow reception area.

Jim has a website for his artistic renderings. This is a web site under-construction and at present contains only a fraction of his work. I recommend you check back every few weeks.


With permission of the artist, Jim Plaxco
Comments

Not my cup of tea either, Dale.

As it turns out, Mars is a just a bleak, sandblasted place. I view almost all of the JPL files and there isn't much worth looking at. You might enjoy these from the north pole.

Otoh, Cassini imagery is stunning.


Posted by HelenW at March 11, 2005 04:52 AM
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