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Above is the Fallen Star sculpture at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, the project took seven years in the making and was supported by $1.3 million investment from private donations. Designed by Do Ho Suh particularly famous for his unusual and adaptive approach to architecture and installations. The permanent sculpture balancing off the edge of the building was the 18th such to be built for UCSD’s Stuart Collection, and is fully complete with a front lawn, brick walkway, garden and lawn chairs. Even with the interior is fully furnished. Do Ho Suh explains how to project was about:

Home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space.

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The images above were taken while Scott Rinckenberger was on a 12 month back country skitrip. He writes about the incredible journey:

I incorporate photography into adventures. I carry a very small kit and try to cover as much ground as possible on foot, skis and bikes. It is through this kinetic mode that I find my images, or they find me.

Breathtaking Images From a 12 Month Backcountry Ski Trip

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The Colors Of Aurora

As charged particles from the sun come in contact with atoms of nitrogen and oxygen in earth’s atmosphere energy is released. This usually happens at very high altitudes around 90-130 km. The energy released in the spectrum of visible light is the colors that we can see or capture. The color produced depends on which atom is struck oxygen or nitrogen and at what altitude. If a particle collides with an oxygen atom at lower altitudes the color green is produced. Red can be seen if particles come in contact with oxygen at very high altitudes. Blue is produced if an particle collides with nitrogen at lower altitudes, and the color purple/violet if the collision is at high altitude.

(by Friðþjófur M.)