From the always interesting, usually colorful, sometimes inspiring The Big Picture.
Category: Photos & Art
Earth Day — The Big Picture
The Prado 2.0
Users of the Google Earth software can simply type in “Prado, Madrid” to be “flown” in to the virtual front door of the museum, where they are greeted by this explanation of the project, alongside 14 thumbnails of the paintings that can be viewed in high-resolution:
We present a virtual tour of fourteen masterpieces from the Museo Nacional del Prado, displayed in ultra high resolution, enabling you to see details of the paintings that have never been seen before. Thanks to the high resolution of the digital images, you can view the whole painting or zoom in on a small fragment. Given the plethora of masterpieces housed at the Museum, choosing which works to include was no easy task but this selection represents the best of the collection.
Amazing resolution. Let’s hope other museums follow the Prado’s lead.
Everywhere Girl
This is kind of interesting. The internets are amazing.
Thanks to Avelino on Facebook for the link.
Photo Contest
Foggy Morning
Once again from Five Acres with a View, a sunrise photo that merits your click.
LIFE photos
“Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.”
October Sunset
New Deal Artists in Santa Fe
The New York Times has a 9-slide show of New Deal Artists in Santa Fe. The slides depict work done by artists in 1934 for the Public Works of Art Project, a predecessor of the Works Progress Administration.
The exhibit at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture has been on since April and runs through August 31.
Here’s background.
Information you can use later this week
Beautiful
That’s the solstice full moon rising above Cape Sounion, Greece, Wednesday.
Click image for larger version (worth it!) and to learn more.
Splinter Galaxy
That’s NGC 5907, about 40 million light-years away. Photo taken from New Mexico.
Click the image for a larger version and to learn more.
Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt was born on May 22nd in 1844.
Mary Cassatt (1844-1926) was a unique artist because she was a woman who succeeded in what was in the nineteenth century a predominantly male profession, because she was the only American invited to exhibit with a group of independent artists later known as the Impressionists, and because she responded in a very distinctive way to their mandate to portray modern life.
Click images for larger version and to learn more.
Oklahoma City Memorial
It was 13 years ago that the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed, killing 168 people and injuring 500. NewMexiKen has been to the Memorial twice. I’ve created an album with 12 photos taken in 2006 at this striking, yet somber place. (You may click the image to advance to the next photo.)
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Thomas Hart Benton
… was born on this date in 1889.
Named after his great-uncle, Missouri’s first senator, Thomas Hart Benton was born on 15 April 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, an Ozark town of 2,000 people. … In 1935 they moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Benton directed the Art Institute until 1941, and where he contiued to live for the rest of his life. Albert Barnes, the Philadelphia collector, purchased some of his paintings, which raised the level of public success for the artist. Benton published his autobiography, An Artist in America, in 1937. He completed several murals in the midwest and on the east coast. Shortly before Harry Truman’s death in December 1972, Benton finished a portrait of the former President. Thomas Hart Benton died on 19 January 1975 in Kansas City, the day he completed a large mural for the Country Music Foundation of Nashville.
Click on the painting to see larger version.
Gallery
NewMexiKen took the photo display out of the header, but I have added a gallery at the bottom of the far right sidebar. Each time you load a page you will get one of the pictures formerly in the header (and new ones if I add some). Click on the photo and you will see the larger version (500 X 200) with a simple caption.
As if anyone notices.
Update: Read the comments.
All of the photos are my own.
Morning Branches
Great photo taken this morning by Elaine. Be sure to click for the larger version.
And Elaine paid off the mortgage yesterday.
Moonrise
NewMexiKen caught this photo a little after 1:30 MT Friday as the moon rose over the Sandia Mountains. I took the photo a few feet from the computer. (And just a few minutes later as this is written the moon is lost in the high clouds as the storm approaches.)
Click image for larger version.
Ansel Adams I ain’t.
More great photos
Photographer’s Guide to New Mexico (and a little bit of Colorado).
It begins:
There are three cultures co-existing in New Mexico (if you read the middle third of my Summer 1994 travelogue then you might question the extent to which these actually co-exist). The Indians created interesting pueblos. The Spanish some impressive churches. The Anglos … mostly some houses that look like they could have been imported from Cleveland.
Ho Hum, just another pretty photo
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Golden Gate
NewMexiKen took this photo one year ago this evening. I like it.
The Fall Colors
The Fall Colors nicely done.
Extra-Crunchy Guide to Leaf Peeping
Photojojo has 12 Fantastic Fall Photo Tips.
Link via Lifehacker.
100 Photographs That Changed the World
NewMexiKen seems to post this every September 12, so no need to be different this — the fifth — year. Here’s what I wrote a year ago:
View 28 of the 100 Photographs that Changed the World, originally from Life magazine. NewMexiKen has posted this link each year on this date and I hesitated this morning. I mean, why repeat it for the fourth time?
I then went and looked at the 28 photos and said to myself, “Oh, that’s why.”
Life Books has all 100.
Performance Art
If you’ve never seen Dan Dunn be sure to watch this through to the end.
Thanks to Amy for the link.