All Posts Tagged With: "perspective"

I stumbled across a really cool video that fellow Okie blogger Brit’ Gal Sarah will surely enjoy.

A new BBC series makes use of satellite technology to create stunning images of Britain from above.

Watch it here.

Click to Enlarge • (Image courtesy of NASA)

This image is of dunes of sand and seaweed, sculpted by the ocean currents, in the Bahamas. “The fluted, underwater dunes are formed in much the same way as sand dunes in deserts.” It is my absolute favorite of 30 images posted by Environmental Graffiti that the resurrected from an exhibition in 2000. They explain:

The images you see below were taken at the turn of the Millennium, when NASA’s scientists had a brilliant idea: to scan through 400,000 images taken by the Landsat 7 satellite and display only the most the most beautiful. A handful of the best were painstakingly chosen and then displayed at the Library of Congress in 2000.

We thought that it, in case you missed the exhibition, it would be amazing to dig up these images and provide some wallpapers for you to download. All images are used courtesy of NASA.

The authors made this observation:

At ground level, one can only imagine the sheer beauty of mountain ranges, deserts and deltas seen high up from NASA’s satellites. One can imagine - yes - however, they wouldn’t be quite prepared for the fact that from 400 miles away, the earth transforms into abstract art. The global landscape is impressionist, cubist and pointillist. Mother Nature is an abstract artist.

You can see more images here.

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* Wordless Wednesday became Wordless Thursday this week because somehow I missed that yesterday was Wednesday — how embarrassing. It’s been a crazy, crazy week, which seems to be becoming the norm, unfortunately; sometimes I feel like I’m losing my mind… or at least a day here and there! I suppose it’s appropriate since Wordless Wednesday wasn’t any more “Wordless” than it was “Wednesday.”

Sarah over at BritGal in the U.S.A. wrote about her observations as a British transplant to Oklahoma about our political process. I like to hear the perspective from “outsiders.” We tend to get myopic about the world that surrounds us and that can taint our perceptions and judgments. I almost always benefit from getting another’s perspective to help me fine tune my own viewpoint.

In addition to exploring the differences between the U.S. and the U.K. in their national elections, she also offers some of her own insight about the current American candidates vying to be our nation’s leader. The entire post is worth reading, but one paragraph stood out above the others, and it’s something that’s discussed very little in the campaign… Continued