(Thank you to my friend Martine Page, a woman from Quebec whose definitely left a piece of her heart in San Francisco, for this link. Be sure to view it full screen.)
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November 19, 2011
L'histoire du ciel
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Who was Cassandra?
In the Iliad, she is described as the loveliest of the daughters of Priam (King of Troy), and gifted with prophecy. The god Apollo loved her, but she spurned him. As a punishment, he decreed that no one would ever believe her. So when she told her fellow Trojans that the Greeks were hiding inside the wooden horse...well, you know what happened.
Amazing. It reminds me of Annie Dillard's discussion in For the Time Being, I think, about how old landscape paintings offer a history of otherwise forgotten clouds.
Posted by: Lorianne | November 19, 2011 at 11:18 AM
did anyone else see Siamese cats and tabby kittens in the clouds?
Posted by: Mouse | November 19, 2011 at 12:06 PM
An artist friend of mine, Jeanmarie Casbarian, did this in Chicago for a year with just polaroid snapshots. She then mounted them on her wall in the hallway in her apartment. She did it, she said, to convince herself that Chicago has very few sunny days. Well, of course, the project proved her wrong. I used to like to stand and look at the dates as I perused the pictures. The video really gives it another dimension, though.
Posted by: Mary | November 19, 2011 at 02:49 PM
amazing. all those skies. i have a sky diary, too, but it's single photos: http://virtual-notes.blogspot.com/search/label/sky%20diary
such an idea: a year of skies in a video collage
Posted by: Dorothee | November 21, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Beautiful. I think I'll share this with my students.
Posted by: James | November 22, 2011 at 01:35 PM
Well.....h'm...I guess I'm a spoilsport.
It's certainly a good idea and very pretty animated collage but, for me, it misses the main magic of the sky which is that there's only the one you're standing under at a particular moment. Even if you were to stand there all day or all week or all year, it would still be just the one sky above you, in all its changing faces.
Posted by: Natalie | November 23, 2011 at 12:17 AM
I just wish we could have seen more of the sky and sunset. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: James | November 27, 2011 at 01:47 AM