A few months ago, I wrote about an art exhibit in NYC based on my book Death from the Skies! Brian George, one of the artists who put this exhibit together, just posted a very cool blog entry about it too.
He posted some great picture on Picasa, which you can see in the slideshow below or on Picasa directly.
I am totally blown away by the sculpture Solar Flares and CMEs. In the book, I describe how the tangling of the Sun’s magnetic field lines is like a bag full of springs under tension. How I pictured that in my head is almost exactly duplicated by that piece.
I could not get to NYC for the exhibit, but I really wish I had. The artwork is amazing, almost as amazing as the feeling I get thinking that a book I wrote for my own nefarious purposes actually inspired a group of artists to create such wonderful and astonishing pieces. My thanks to all of them for swelling my head just a little bit more.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:38 am
You wrote a book?
Edited to Add: Wow…I actually beat Ivan3Man!
March 16th, 2010 at 8:45 am
NUTS!
P.S. Todd W., you only beat me because I did not realize that you Americans had already gone into Daylight Saving Time last weekend, so Phil posted earlier than I had expected. D’oh! Whereas here in the UK, BST (British Summer Time) does not start until the last weekend of March.
March 16th, 2010 at 8:58 am
Todd, you forgot to to make it in giant flashing fonts though!
And people say that there is no art in Science… I say there is no art without science!
March 16th, 2010 at 9:09 am
@Larian
My html-fu is not as advanced as Ivan3Man’s.
@Ivan3Man
Yep. We started
Bush-timeDaylight Saving Time this weekend. Sorry, but…you snooze, you lose.March 16th, 2010 at 10:01 am
(At least one reader thanks you folks for not using annoying fonts.)
That exhibit just leaves me speechless. What a great idea for an art show. The results are so varied in nature and in the way they respond to the stories from the book. And what an honor, Phil. I can’t begin to imagine how you must feel.
March 16th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
I wonder what those nefarious purposes might be.
March 16th, 2010 at 2:33 pm
WOW Thank you so much for posting about the show. I’m really happy you enjoyed the work and are sharing it with such a wide audience. I never thought starting a blog could be so much fun! So thanks for the inspiration there as well!
Cheers! and Cheers! again.
March 16th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Brian~
The Black Hole Era (Detail) was great!!!! Loved it!
March 17th, 2010 at 5:41 am
@sylva333: Thanks so much! It was a lot of fun to paint.
March 17th, 2010 at 10:15 am
Rarely have I seen better looking attacking aliens!
That exhibition is awesome – love it!
@3. Larian LeQuella Says:
…And people say that there is no art in Science… I say there is no art without science!
There is an art to science and a science to art!
March 17th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I like the shout out to Disneys “The Black Hole”, in the Black Hole piece