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Wishing JMW Turner a Splendid Birthday

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Gregg Chadwick  ‏ @ greggchadwick     1m 1 minute ago Sant a Monica, CA Happy birthday J.M.W. Turner! # Turner # PaintingSetFree Currently @ GettyMuseum http://www. getty.edu/mobile/ gettygu ide /center/exhibitions/turner/artifacts/248344_2111.html   … More Thoughts to Follow...

Time Lapse Video of Hurricane Sandy Hitting New York City

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Incredible time lapse video made by Richard Shepherd from stills grabbed from the New York Times webcam during Hurricane Sandy. I had the New York Times webcam on all day yesterday as well. My thoughts go out to the brave responders and all those dealing with this frightening, unprecedented storm. Climate change is real my friends. Props to President Obama, FEMA, the Coast Guard, the National Guard, and all the courageous nurses, firefighters, police officers, EMT's and union workers of all stripes who kept so many safe.

Stopped Time: The Motion Studies of Eadweard Muybridge

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by Gregg Chadwick Eadweard Muybridge Muybridge Animal Locomotion, plate 288 circa 1887 ©  University of Pennsylvania  | uarc@pobox.upenn.edu "....'See how curiously,' said Mr. Muybridge, referring to a photographic series (Plate 288 shown above) of one of our most prominent University baseball nine, 'and yet how perfectly, this plate illustrates the occurrence of an error in catching.' True enough. In the successive pictures the ball is muffed, strikes the player's thigh, runs up under his arm and across his back, while he is looking eagerly on the wrong side for it." - The  Pennsylvanian , 1886  In the 19th century the railroad, the telegraph and the camera transformed our experience of space and time.  JMW Turner's painting  Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway  documents in oil paint the beginnings of this perceptual shift.  In Turner's work, the powerful steam engine races from the painting's perspectival vanis...