Last nite was Draw Thyme X Sketch Klubb, one of my favorite activities. I get together with a bunch of kewl ppl and we just hang out and draw all nite. I think that just spending time drawing whatever I want in my sketchbook is very important to my artistic practice. I would show y’all my sketches from last nite, but they weren’t very good, so I scanned some pages from the nite before last, when I was drawing at the laundromat.
When I was sketching on this page I was thinking about Obama’s recent budget change for NASA, so I was drawing spaceships and arcologies on Ganymede (or Callisto? I can never remember which moon is farthest from Jupiter).
On this second page I was drawing cartoon Glade, a dragon, and a character based off of the black mage from Final Fantasy I.
Yesterday would have been Carl Sagan’s 75th birthday. The man was a champion of secular humanism, space exploration, exobiology, and many other realms of science.
via the rustbelt radical.
At his most lyrical, Sagan painted pictures of the strange alien beings that could inhabit our solar system in order to broaden our search for other forms of life, such as these sinkers, floaters, and hunters on Jupiter:
via wandering space.
For Sagan’s sake, I hope that the upcoming expeditions to the moons of Jupiter and Saturn find some traces of life within their icy shells.
At times, Sagan could get quite spiritual, describing the search for extraterrestial life as the quest for the cosmic fugue.
via cosmos times cosmology.
In this photograph from Mars, taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor on May 22nd, 2003, you can see Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, and several Jovian moons.
Here it is:
From gizmodo via dvice and posthuman blues.
