Tag: Art
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Paintings, not people, take the spotlight in Blue Origin’s latest suborbital space trip
Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship lifts off for an uncrewed research mission. (Blue Origin via YouTube) A little more than a month after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took a rocket ride, his Blue Origin space venture sent another New Shepard suborbital spaceship to the final frontier — but this time the high-profile payloads were…
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Artists create paintings designed to be tempered in space on Blue Origin’s rocket
Jeff Hein works in his art studio, testing his paints and creative processes on an exterior panel of Blue Origin’s New Shepard suborbital spaceship. (Uplift Aerospace Photo) Uplift Aerospace and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket venture plan to put paintings where virtually no art has gone before: on the side of a rocket…
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OK Go contest winners will launch their cosmic creations on Blue Origin spaceship
Members of the OK Go performance-art band (at left) give the good word to one of the winning teams (shown on the screen at right) in the Art in Space contest. (OK Go via YouTube) Three students are getting ready for a space experiment that will use gravity and magnetism to simulate the origin of…
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OK Go music group teams up with Blue Origin on zero-G space art contest for kids
OK Go’s zero-gravity art contest follows up on a music video that the group performed during a zero-gravity airplane flight. (OK Go Photo) Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is joining forces with the music-video masters at OK Go to give students a chance to send art experiments into outer space on Blue…
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SpaceX’s round-the-moon trip could have VR, ‘Space Bar’ and in-flight entertainment
An artist’s conception shows a violinist performing in zero-G during a voyage in SpaceX’s BFR spaceship. (SpaceX via Twitter) It’s been only a day since SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unveiled the plan to send Yusaku Maezawa and roughly half a dozen artists around the moon, but folks are already nominating themselves (and others) for a…