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Landsat "Earth As Art" Images
U.S. Geological Survey Landsat Program ^
Posted on 07/24/2002 11:24:47 AM PDT by cogitator
Our Earth As Art
An example:
![](http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/images/guinea.jpg)
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Science
KEYWORDS: earthobservation; images; landsat
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Just discovered this site. The high-resolution pictures are stunning.
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:24:47 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: sauropod; kayak; Miss Marple; CPT Clay; capitan_refugio; SuziQ; GingisK; Lazarus Long; d4now; ...
*PING PING PING PING PING!*
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:26:11 AM PDT
by
cogitator
To: Vic3O3; rwfromkansas
Kansas Ping,
Checked out the site, great pics but Garden City Kansas?
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:35:55 AM PDT
by
dd5339
To: cogitator
Bump
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:41:11 AM PDT
by
facedown
To: cogitator
We have one of SF Bay which we use to give the kids we teach a sense of their locale. These pictures really are beautiful!
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:50:31 AM PDT
by
pbear8
To: coteblanche; January24th; bentfeather; fish hawk; okiedust; JamesWilson
There's no artist like Nature.
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posted on
07/24/2002 11:56:20 AM PDT
by
otterpond
To: otterpond
otter that is a wonderful site, thanks so much! I will look more later on in the day!
To: otterpond
Very nice!
I think a trip to the mountains in Morocco is in order...
:o)
To: cogitator
Gorgeous.
In a superficial way, these beautiful images can be compared to abstract, modern art, except for the fact that modern art is entirely worthless.
Why is that? I can only guess that somehow we sense a deep, mysterious order to what appears, at least superficially, to be disordered. Any other ideas?
To: January24th
I think a trip to the mountains in Morocco is in order...Good idea! Care to board my magic carpet?
:0)
To: cogitator
![](http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/earthasart/images/guinea.jpg)
Must be Red China. <|:)~
To: cogitator
As a Freeper with an art degree from OSU, I say this is gorgeous! Man can never match God in His artistic talent! He may give us some of his creative talent, but he always can out do us! Great photos!
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posted on
07/24/2002 12:58:26 PM PDT
by
buffyt
To: otterpond
"
There's no artist like Nature." Indeed, thanks for the alert.
regards
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posted on
07/24/2002 3:11:34 PM PDT
by
okiedust
To: okiedust
Glad you agree.
This is just a BUMP!
To: cogitator; Clovis_Skeptic; nopardons; COB1
Wow!
What a beautiful collection of "art" on this website!
Thanks so much for the ping, just stunning!
Comment #16 Removed by Moderator
To: ladyinred
"What a beautiful collection of "art" on this website!" Yep, that is beautiful!!
I didn't know Texas could look any prettier than it does from down here!
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posted on
07/24/2002 8:23:39 PM PDT
by
COB1
To: Aquinasfan
"...modern art is entirely worthless."
Boy, that's an obnoxious statement. What's YOUR definition of modern art? Is Impressionism worthless? How about artists like Whistler, Turner, Henry Moore, Gauguin, Edward Weston, Richard Estes, Dali, etc. etc.? You do know they, among others, are all considered modernists?
To: macamadamia
How about artists like Whistler, Turner, Henry Moore, Gauguin, Edward Weston, Richard Estes, Dali, etc. etc.? You do know they, among others, are all considered modernists You know the ones I'm talking about. The ones who couldn't draw so they came up with a scam, like Picasso, Pollock, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Calder, Miro, Klee, Haring, Johns, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Modigliani and the biggest joke of them all, Rothko.
To: Aquinasfan
A list of artists you believe couldnt draw is not a definition of modern art. Your qualifiers undermine your statement that modern art is worthless. Im more on the same page with you than you think. But, you simply cant lump all of these artists together. Picasso, Pollock, Kandinsky, Miro, Mondrian, Klee, for example, sure as hell could draw; have you seen their early work? Theres no scam going onthis is a ridiculous assertion. They simply rejected their early styles, arrived at new ones and found admirers. Wheres the deception. I get queasy looking at a Thomas Kincaid, but I wouldnt for a second accuse him of pulling a scam simply because he found an audience. Also, it is wrong to speak about modern art as if it were monolithic. It simply isntthere never was a unified aesthetic and scholars cant even agree upon a definition of modernism. Its a knee jerk reaction to dismiss anything you dont like as modern art unless you can provide a comprehensive definition of modernism that everyone else seems to be struggling with. The problem IMO is that art history scholars think that theyre scientists and hence believe they can impose a nifty taxonomy upon all this cultural stuff that simply cannot be categorized. Also, I assume that you dont believe that art museums are sanctified spaces and that curators are high priests. Its all marketing, sometimes offensive sometimes palatable, but wheres the scam?
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