LEGO Art Gustav Klimt - The Kiss (31221) Officially Announced
LEGO has officially revealed a new LEGO Art set coming this August with Gustav Klimt - The Kiss (31221).
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Your eyes can only see the moon in gray. It's actually covered in color, blues and oranges and pinks, all from different metals sitting in the rock. You just need a camera and some patience to pull them out.
These photos are called "mineral moons." A photographer points a telescope at the moon, takes hundreds or thousands of pictures, stacks them on top of each other to clean up the image, then slowly turns up the color intensity in editing software. The colors that show up were always there. Too faint for your eyes to catch on their own.
Each color is a different metal. The blue areas have a lot of titanium in them. The orange and brown zones have more iron. The pinkish-red patches around the edges are the oldest parts of the moon's crust, full of aluminum and calcium.
That deep blue region on the left side is called the Sea of Tranquility. Apollo 11 landed right there in July 1969. When Armstrong and Aldrin brought back 47 pounds of rock from that blue titanium zone, scientists cracked the samples open and found three minerals that had never been seen on Earth before. They named one "armalcolite" after the three astronauts (Arm-Al-Col: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins). They named another "tranquillityite" after the landing site itself. For 40 years, tranquillityite was known as "the moon's own mineral" because nobody could find it here. Then in 2011, a geologist in Western Australia spotted a speck of it inside a billion-year-old rock.
Andrew McCarthy, a photographer in Sacramento, once stacked 150,000 separate pictures of the moon to build one color map. Each splash of blue or orange in these images is a real metal deposit on a surface that's been getting hit by space rocks for 3.5 billion years. The moon was never gray. We just couldn't see it.
Indonesia built a free public library from engineered timber raised on stilts, a direct translation of the traditional rumah panggung. Burundi built Africa’s specialist arts library from soil dug on the same site it stands on.
Two different continents. Two different materials. The same idea, that a community deserves beautiful public infrastructure built from what the land already offers.
The Microlibrary Warak Kayu in Semarang doesn’t charge entry. It has a hammock net where children read suspended above the ground floor. The architecture is the programme.
Africa is not short of land, timber, or earth. It is short of the decision to use them.
📍 Semarang, Indonesia 🇮🇩
🏛 SHAU Indonesia
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There has to be some word for this concept
It's why designers from tech who design touchscreens like Jony Ive won't put a touch screen in a car but use real knobs
Or why programmers don't actually like smart homes and smart appliances at all but want things analog
Or why tech people raise their kids without mobile devices
Like knowing things so well from inside of it (tech) that you choose to NOT use it because you know the negatives that come with it in specific contexts