Comments on: Mother Nature is an abstract artist

Mother Nature is an abstract artist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:48:50 -0800

30 Incredible Abstract Satellite Images of Earth "From 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist." Nice NASA images from 2000, downloadable as wallpaper.

By: DU

DU — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:59:37 -0800

Awesome. And perhaps I shouldn't admit this, but the first thing I did was to read up on Landsat 7 to get the orbital information. It sees the entire Earth every 16 days for 5 years (or more? yes, it seems to still be alive). Has anyone put together time-series pictures from these? Mother Nature is an abstract artist. Or, in this case, human beings.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:04:19 -0800

More from them humans: Japanese rice field art. Totally wild.

By: prefpara

prefpara — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:04:23 -0800

Gorgeous. Thank you.

By: brundlefly

brundlefly — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:10:22 -0800

Interesting thought, DU. And thanks for the post, CL! These are beautiful!

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:26:53 -0800

That reminds me of the Earth as Art site. There's an index too, looks like some of the images in the link originated there.

By: milarepa

milarepa — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:43:00 -0800

More from them humans: Japanese rice field art. Totally wild. Christ, is there anything the Japanese CAN'T do with rice?! They're like rice-wizards or something.

By: Pecinpah

Pecinpah — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:51:28 -0800

These are breathtaking. Thank you.

By: chimaera

chimaera — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:58:06 -0800

Fantastic! And to think all sorts of people are always trying to find excuses to cut the space budget.

By: rocket88

rocket88 — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:02:52 -0800

Don't worry. As long as they don't cut the false-coloring budget the pictures will still look pretty.

By: MarshallPoe

MarshallPoe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:20:34 -0800

Terrific images.

By: paddysat

paddysat — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:30:23 -0800

Wonderful find. Thanks, CL.

By: tadellin

tadellin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:17:24 -0800

Rice pics > Satellite pics.

By: CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:23:55 -0800

Yeah, I saw them after. Just found this post from last year.

By: spock

spock — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:26:30 -0800

File the satellite pics: Yet another great set of graphics to make my homebrew beer labels with a neat theme. Terkezi Pale Ale, here we come!

By: sidereal

sidereal — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:24:07 -0800

Gods and Monsters (Google Maps link)

By: marvin

marvin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:36:49 -0800

dammit, the Bahamas Sands doesn't open as wallpaper...