A Universe of Resources
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In an earlier post about “flybys” I used a brand new image of Pluto from NASA. Did you know that nearly everything in NASA’s archive of images, videos, audio, animations (and more!) are freely available for use, completely royalty free? This is an incredible resource for science, space, or sci-fi related productions, like a performance of Holst’s The Planets (as an obvious example). A great place to start is NASA ArtSpace for links to various collections, ...
Exploring the Far Corners
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By now you’ve seen the amazing images of everyone’s favourite ninth member of the solar system dwarf planet Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons mission. Their probe travelled 3 billion miles over a period of 9 years, culminating in a “flyby” of Pluto as it came within 7800 miles of the mysterious world, zipping by at more than 28,000 miles per hour. As the first transmissions of data and images reach Earth, scientists are already learning ...
What’s In a Nme: Part Deux
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Back in April I skewered bad twitter handles and the regrettable word abbreviations that result from the character limit (while telling you how to easily change yours), and Arts Hacker editor in chief Drew McManus suggested I follow up with some examples that keep your organization’s initials intact. By the way, did you know you probably use an initialism, not an acronym? If an abbreviation forms a pronounceable word like LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of ...
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…