Nicholas Podany

Actor, Composer, Gryffindor

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For Vegas and Tom

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Today was the day to learn how to photoshop. NOW GO CALIFORNIA. VOTE!!!

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Brandon Homer

“The final straw was that I met with Governor Patrick, he’s the governor of Boston, and I had read his book and everything. And I go in and I have this meeting with him, and we’re just talking about his book and how our lives are similar as far as, like, race, and stuff. And he was like ‘you obviously hate what you do, what do you wanna do?’ And I was like, ‘Man, I wanna act.’ And he told me ‘Quit.’ He was like ‘yeah, you have to do what you love.’”

-Brandon Homer, BFA Actor, Group 48

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Featuring the talents of Jeffery Miller, Dan Chmielinski, and Cameron MacIntosh performing "Sunny Side of the Street" by Louis Armstrong. Special thanks to t...

A quick video I made during one of the jazz nights at my school

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Faint Compact Galaxy in the Early Universe

This is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope view of a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS0416.1-2403, located roughly 4 billion light-years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns. The cluster’s immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

The inset is an image of an extremely faint and distant galaxy that existed only 400 million years after the Big Bang. Hubble captured it because the gravitational lens makes the galaxy appear 20 times brighter than normal. The object is comparable in size to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a diminutive satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. It is rapidly making stars at a rate ten times faster than the LMC. The object might be the growing core of what was to eventually evolve into a full-sized galaxy. The research team has nicknamed the object Tayna, which means “first-born” in Aimara, a language spoken in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.

Credit: NASA, ESA, L. Infante (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

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Draft 2

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Burbank, California

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Venus From the International Space Station

On Dec. 5, 2015, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Kimiya Yui captured this image from the International Space Station of the planet Venus shining bright. Part of the station’s Kibo laboratory with the star Spica visible below is seen at the top of the frame. At the time this photograph was taken, Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft, a Venus climate orbiter, was nearing the planet.

Credit: NASA/JAXA

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Tullus Aufidius from Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

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All you need is three friends, a warm jacket, a massive hunk of space rock spinning at 1,000 miles per hour in orbit around a sun, a camera, and BAM. Not bad, nature.