George Petros THE HISTORY of ASTRONOMY
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The History of Astronomy George Petros, with music by Jonn Serrie http://www.georgepetros.com 1986: photo and illustration collage of xeroxes, scratchboard, ink, grease pencil, and acrylic on bristol board, 4 x 420 (cut into twenty-one 4 x 20 strips), shot for reproduction with a photostat machine. The accompanying text, not shown in the video, was prepared via MacWrite on a Mac 512. http://www.georgepetros.com/art/exit/pages/11-HistoryOfAstronomy-1.htm 2010 additions: photo and illustration collage via Photoshop, 2,000 x 29,908 pixels, executed on a Mac mini; voice overdubs processed via Audacity; two music tracks by Jonn Serrie: First Night Out in its entirety, segueing into the first two minutes of Continuum. Both tracks appeared on the 1994 album Planetary Chronicles Vol. 2, on Miramar Records. In 1986 I created The History of Astronomy for inclusion in EXIT Magazine. A graphic timeline of all things heavenly, it drew upon astronomy, astrophysics, science fiction, mythology, cosmology, aeronautics and UFOlogy. I cut out photos and illustrations from old cheap books, most of which trumpeted the Space Age, to use along with my own drawings. A bar of text consisting of astro-related wit and wisdom ran above the timeline. After its publication I never gave it another thought. In 2009 art director and digital documentarian Paul Horton suggested making an updated The History of Astronomy into a movie. He adapted it for video by scanning and assembling the graphic strips, combining them with new graphics, and cutting it all up into eighty-two 1920 x 1080 images, via Photoshop. He recorded me reading the text for use as a voice-over. http://www.paulhorton.com To convert those images into a ten-minute movie, designer and programmer Robert Lund wrote a PHP program that generated a continuous pan (at 60 frames per second to maximize the smoothness of the visual experience) and generated 34,830 frames. He combined the resulting movie with the voice-over and music, and added the credits and fade-out, via iMovie. http://lundissimo.info Space Music maestro Jonn Serrie agreed to allow use of his music for the soundtrack. His cosmic coolness adds that perfect something, evoking zero-gravity bliss in interstellar overdrive (see my 1995 Seconds Magazine interview with him). http://www.thousandstar.com Many thanks to John Vondracek, Paul Rachman, Deanna Lehman, and Les Barany.
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the music of the sphere's was around long before kepler dude. It's a pretty persistent topic in pythagoreanism as well as platonism amongst other things. There were no satisfactory accounts of why we don't hear anything then, so it was dismissed until Kepler, who had some interesting takes on celestial mechanics. The search for cosmic harmony still remains present in the search for super string theories I think.
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btw ptolemy believed the earth was round. You also mention "infinite aether" which I am not familiar with...who said that? Certainly wasn't aristotle...
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@stevenmtaylor21 If you know it's possible could you please then explain "hyper technic incursion" :P
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8:30 and on it gets stange. But possible.
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weird cool
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