Week 9: Space + Art

    This week, it was very interesting learning about space and its relation to nano technology.  I’ve always been fascinated with space but I have never taken the time to sit down and attempt to understand everything we know about the vast void beyond our earth.


Invisible Numbers Are the Most Beautiful Part of Every 'Space' Image | Scientific American
Space

    I loved learning about the existence of Buckyballs and how they entered into the earth’s atmosphere.  There lies a unique combination of something so small relating to nanotech and something as large and as vast as space.  


Buckyballs grow by gobbling up carbon | Research | Chemistry World
Buckyball

   

     It was also extremely interesting learning how science fiction has slowly become a reality.  We have heard stories that were outlandish at the time of publication that soon came to be a reality.  One example of this is a Russian school teacher who was able to describe a space station well before the first space station was created.  His work was published in the year 1920 while the first space station arrived all the way in 1971.


    The final interest I explored was the relation of art and outer space.  It was fascinating to learn how artists have been inspired by space, clearly seen in their works of art.  These artists take inspiration from the cosmos, meteor belts, the sun, different plants, and other celestial arrangements.  Some even allow the pure vastness of space to fuel their artworks.


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"...in space/1/" by Ashok Gulati


    All in all, I found this week’s content very inspiring.  Moving forward, I’d like to continue to learn more about space and see how it influences my artistic interests.


Works Cited

Tan, Adlina. “6 Artists and Their Interest in Outer Space.” The Articling.

‌Office, Eames. “Powers of TenTM (1977).” YouTube, 26 Aug. 2010, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0.

‌UC Online. “8 Space Pt1-6 1280x720.” YouTube, 29 July 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZIqTR332l8.

“Mysteries behind Interstellar Buckyballs Finally Answered | University of Arizona News.” News.arizona.edu, news.arizona.edu/news/mysteries-behind-interstellar-buckyballs-finally-answered.

Logsdon, John M. “Space Exploration - Major Milestones.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 17 Apr. 2019, www.britannica.com/science/space-exploration/Major-milestones.

Pacucci, Fabio. Invisible Numbers Are the Most Beautiful Part of Every “Space” Image, static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/BC745FE0-3A58-4F9E-8ABF901AFC1FF0E1_source.jpg?w=1200.

Bennett, Haley. Buckyballs Grow by Gobbling up Carbon, d2cbg94ubxgsnp.cloudfront.net/Pictures/480xAny/2/0/4/84204_fullerene-in-space_ml-300.jpg.

Gulati, Ashok. ...In Space/1/.

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Comments

  1. ryankingDESMA9June 1, 2025 at 10:34 PM

    Hey Brandon, I enjoyed your blog on space and really liked the images you chose to represent your blog. Space is something that interests many people but few take the time to sit down and really learn all the complex details that go into what makes the universe the universe and I am glad you connected the dots to nano technology and space.

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