Tonight This Woman Returns From Space, The All-time US Record-holder. Commander Peggy Whitson PhD, You

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha (1922)

former FLOTUS michelle obama at princeton university, early 1980s

Edward Steichen’s “The Maypole (Empire State Building)”

Edward Steichen was born on this day in 1879. In addition to being a photographer himself, Steichen was Director of MoMA’s Department of Photography and curated the museum’s popular exhibition The Family of Man. Steichen took this photo of the Empire State Building a year after its construction ended, and used two separate negatives to create the photograph’s dizzying effect.

[Edward Steichen. The Maypole (Empire State Building). 1932. Gelatin silver print. Gift of the photographer. © 2017 The Estate of Edward Steichen/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.]

Couple admiring Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ MoMA   -     Gilbert Sape

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Photography

Bill Withers (1938-2020)

"The three-time Grammy winner released just eight albums before walking away from the spotlight in 1985, but he left an incredible mark on the music community and the world at large. Songs like “Lean On Me,” “Grandma’s Hands,” “Use Me,” “Ain’t No Sunshine,” and “Lovely Day” are embedded in the culture and have been covered countless times."

Tchaikovsky’s autograph containing a musical quotation of his Romeo and Juliet Overture, TH 42, dated April 28, 1888.

Happy #MoonDay! To celebrate the 49th anniversary of Apollo 11 landing on the Moon, we present you with “Moonlight,” a video by our Goddard science visualizer Ernie Wright set to Debussy’s Clair de Lune. The Apollo missions were a landmark in lunar exploration. The visit and the samples that our Moon walkers collected transformed our understanding of the Moon and the solar system. Now, our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s high-resolution data gives an incredibly detailed view of our closest neighbor.

This visualization captures the mood of Claude Debussy’s best-known composition, Clair de Lune (which means moonlight in French). The piece was published in 1905 as the third of four movements in the composer’s Suite Bergamasque, and unlike the other parts of this work, Clair is quiet, contemplative, and slightly melancholy, evoking the feeling of a solitary walk through a moonlit garden.

“Moonlight” uses a digital 3D model of the Moon built from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter global elevation maps and image mosaics. The lighting is derived from actual Sun angles during lunar days in 2018. Enjoy and read more HERE.

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Power should act and not talk.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections (via philosophybits)

Columbia University, 1960s

"I decided to write a song based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book, as it would be relative to that moment. I picked up a book at random, opened it, and saw 'gently weeps'. I then laid the book down again and started the song." George Harrison

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