Mark Baskinger

Designer / Professor / co-Author of @DrawingIdeas / Project Director of @CMU_MoonArk / Director of @Ballay_Center

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To our global MoonArk team, we celebrate the life and immense contributions of our friend Lance LaDuke and share again his amazing MoonArk biographic song: The Ballad of Lowry LaGrange by lalaladuke via #soundcloud https://t.co/yPvpyaog11

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Also available at @SCCPgh
Mark Baskinger Cedar Vessel #41 https://t.co/nDXyKEaZTf

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Available at @SCCPgh
Mark Baskinger Cedar Vessel #42 https://t.co/fdlXq2FM9s

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Nice article today by @raminskibba mentioning @CMU_MoonArk in @wired https://t.co/PAZyRgqACi

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@CMU_MoonArk 3D printed replica delivered today to @astrobotic for payload integration onto the Peregrine lander prototype for exhibition.

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t-minus 15 days - In the Moon Chamber, we feature over 100 Moon Poems, from across time and culture presented in their native languages with multiple translations. By Lowry Burgess, arranged by @ZSchwemler, curated by Jim Daniels.

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t-minus 16 days - Sferics at the Point by @zenglop - A menagerie of the electromagnetic sounds of the stratosphere recorded over the “Point” in Pittsburgh, the confluence of the Allegheny, Ohio, and Monongahela rivers. To learn more: https://t.co/2VOioubbPV

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t-minus 18 days - Nano structures created to be the blackest black material in the universe by @Studio_De_Wilde - to capture all light at all frequencies setting the backdrop for the Metasphere – solemn and infinite. https://t.co/vMcxPLkA2Y

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t-minus 19 days - Tree of Life Moon Fragrance
prepared by Annie Buzantian of @firmenich
A custom fragrance that represents the reaching of the Moon toward the Earth. With the Moon as the root mass for the tree, its branches reach out and form the Earth and all of its entities.

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t-minus 17 days - The Wanderers, a small vessel containing plankton. Plankton comes from the Greek word for wanderer — the sculpture’s 18k gold form is a tiny representation of our enduring need for discovery through movement. By Carolina Jacobs Ramos and @RobbGodshaw

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t-minus 20 days - In the Ether Chamber, we overcome our humanity. These models demonstrate where the brain activates when contemplating the concept of gravity. Created with Marcel Just, Robert Mason Theodore DePietro, Tim Keller of @cmupsych

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t-minus 21 days - A quartz resonator similar to that in a wrist watch that pulses with electrical current to provide kinetic energy in the Ether Chamber. By Michael Haener and the @Shinola design team

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t-minus 24 days - Status Symbols
This ingenious and mesmerizing image on a disk in the Metasphere Chamber is a portrait of an individual post on Twitter as a representation of our identity in the age of digital social media. Created by @lorihepner

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t-minus 25 days - Located in the Metasphere Chamber, Ammassalik wooden maps are carved tactile maps of the Greenland coastlines. Carved by a native of Umivik named Kunit in the 1800s. Provided by the Greenland National Museum and Archives

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t-minus 28 days - A sample of water collected from Ricketts Point Marine Sanctuary, Australia by @LaureneVaughan sits in one of the gold tube bezels within the Earth Chamber.

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t-minus 29 days - We celebrate the first @CMU_MoonArk project titled "Moon Ballet" an original ballet choreographed by @cmudrama professor Jim Caton and performed to music derived from a three-dimensional model of the moon translated into a musical score by @zenglop

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Today we start our t-minus 30 day countdown to launch by sharing a project from deep inside the @CMU_MoonArk. Please enjoy this biographical song by Lance LaDuke titled “The Ballad of Lowry LaGrange” https://t.co/hlBBfGBHVk

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We have a date. 🚀 May 4th, 2023 is the first opportunity for Peregrine Mission One to head to the Moon, launching aboard @ulalaunch Vulcan Centaur!

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This just in - Peregrine is now heading to just outside the Gruithuisen Domes, a geologic enigma. 🕵️‍♀️ Read more from @NASA CLPS here:

https://t.co/1AlyY705fG