Art Wednesday

Well, I have given up on trying to make this a weekly column, so it is becoming an occasional column.

I’ve come across 2 sets of photos in the last two days. One set is pretty interesting and the other set is pretty incredible, both are definitely worth checking out.

The first set of pictures makes it to us all the way from Chili where the Chaitan Volcano has been pretty active recently. During some recent activity there also happened to be a lighting storm that added some incredible effects to the erupting volcano. The Daily Mail has a whole set of the images here.

Our second set of pictures comes from an exhibition titled “The Other Night Sky” currently showing at the UC Berkeley Art Museum. The exhibition shows Trevor Paglen’s photographs of 189 spy satellites that officially do not exist. The title of the exhibition is a play on Galileo’s The Night Sky and offers commentary on how these ‘unofficial’ satellites would paint the sky to astronomers of yesterday. Paglen is also responsible for a book about patches from military black-ops groups that has some great images of the official patches for these groups.