Skye Moret

Design + Science + Ocean Dreaming

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from “a century of shoes”, 1998.

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Dreamy deep sea fish stilettos.

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Courtney Mattison creates large-scale ceramic coral reef installations to engage people with coral’s exquisite architecture and colors and the dire bleaching occurring with climate change.

She says, “Perhaps if my work can influence viewers to appreciate the fragile beauty of our endangered coral reef ecosystems, we will act more wholeheartedly to help them recover and even thrive."

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“Marey researched in the fields of circulatory physiology, movement of bodies and aeronautics. ... As the inventor of chronophotography, he developed new equipment, such as the ‘photographic rifle,’ which allowed photography of objects moving in space.”

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“Eventually they go, melting back into their blue fold, the way of all the others.”

From the two artists-in-residence that lived on the island that is Dry Tortugas National Park last year: Matthew and Julie Chase-Daniel (photographer and poet, respectively).

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PFD II print by Mea Duke.

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Representation of the relative durability of green signal lights, academic year 1959–60 Lecturer: Otl Aicher, Student: Herbert Falk, Photo: HfG Archive

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HfG Ulm, Horizontal-diagonal gradation of 3 chosen colours, 1960/61. Teacher: Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart, Student: Eric RossiccI, HfG Archiv, Ulm, Germany.

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Random and intentional distribution, combination of colors using the aleatoric method (cubes), academic year 1960–61 Lecturer: Anthony Frøshaug Student: Terence Dalley Photo: HfG Archive

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Lourdes Sanchez

Blue Floral 6, 2015 ink on silk, 21 x 14 inch image/30 x 22 inch paper

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I just saw some of John Cage’s musical notations at the ICA’s Black Mountain College exhibition and loved the diverse ways of visualizing his passion.

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DJ Spooky’s "Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica"

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If all the visible stars slid down on strings straight to the surface of the planet.

Esfera celeste invertida (Inverted Celestial Sphere) by David Peña Lopera.

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Anthropography

An`thro`pog´ra`phy n. 1. That branch of anthropology which treats of the actual distribution of the human race in its different divisions, as distinguished by physical character, language, institutions, and customs, in contradistinction to ethnography, which treats historically of the origin and filiation of races and nations.

-Webster’s 1913 Dictionary

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It seems like I am sitting on the seafloor, looking up at bizarre mats of fuchsia algae floating at different depths. [love it] 

painting by Harald Gnade

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In photos: Life in one of the most remote places on Earth

Scientist and designer Skye Moret spends between three and four months each year sailing and doing research in Antarctica. Here's what that looks like.

So honored to have photographs of my winter in Antarctica featured on PRI’s The World this month. After I wrote a piece about the challenge of eating tasty food in Antarctica for The GroundTruth Project - published as the weekly ‘Global Dispatch’ by Roads & Kingdoms and Slate Magazine - PRI was interested in the story and interviewed me about my experience with food on the ice. 

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Findings on Ice from PARS offers a refreshing diversity of voices that contextualize one topic, ice, in different ways. Part of their “Atlas of Creative Thinking,” PARS’ goal was to “[bring] together artists and scientists to share their vision on wide-ranging topics.”

On contextualizing ice (from their site):

Findings on Ice features the work of artists and scientists whose binding interest is ice. Their findings range from the quirky, humorous and beautiful, to the mind-bogglingly complex and disturbing.

Ice is the greenhouse effect and rising sea levels, but also the cold stare across the aisle, the crux of a play, the muscles of a dancer before the first movement, the silence between the notes, a German railway company and a substance that holds no fossils. It absorbs sound, reflects heat, and we eat it with a little sugar and cream whisked in.

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There’s something about those whites and blues...

(Antonio Di Bacco)