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A History of the Sky

March 10th, 02010 by Austin Brown

“Long Shorts” – short films that exemplify long-term thinking. Please submit yours in the comments section…

Art project in progress A History of the Sky features lots and lots of time-lapse videos of the sky that are synchronized so that they’re all showing the same time of day. Ken Murphy is the artist that created it and he hopes to one day manifest all the data he’s collecting as a video installation that’s always displaying the skies of the last 365 days. The project was recently featured at the Exploratorium, but it’s still in a need of a home for the installation.

Here’s how it works.

If you’d like to see an installation in person, here are several upcoming opportunities:

Maker Faire UK, at the Life Science Centre Planetarium, Newcastle UK: March 13-14, 2010
Google I/O Conference After Hours Party, at Moscone West, San Francisco: May 19, 2010
Bay Area Maker Faire, at the San Mateo County Event Center: May 22-23, 2010

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Nick Rusnov

Very cool, but I can't help but think it'd be cooler done with a whole sky (fisheye) image. Seeing the sun trace differently each day would be magical (but of course remove the beauty of the sky itself).
Rowland

wow, I read the discription of that and thought "that sounds stupid," and then I watched it, and it is profoundly beautiful. Is that Eno in the background?