Friday, August 14, 2009

Two Things I'm Enamored with Today

Here are two items from the web, both referenced to me by my favorite site for crazy awesome stuff: boingboing.net.

The first is a four minute-long video of the Hubble telescope's Ultra Deep Field. Apparently, in 2004, the guys running the Hubble telescope pointed it out into a black piece of space about the size of a grain of sand, and opened the aperture up for eleven days to take in some light and see if anything could be captured on the CCD. They ended up with the light of thousands of galaxies. It's an intense video that does a great job of illustrating how large the universe is and why we are such a tiny tiny part of it. Hard evidence like this is why people wonder what else is out there.



This next piece is from Bazaar magazine. They did a spread this month of supermodels without makeup. It's a great piece, and it makes me wonder, as I always have, why everyone cakes on the makeup anyway? People look great without it.

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