On January 7, 2008 in southwestern New Mexico, the rainstorm was weirdly white. "I don't know what it was, but it left a milky, white residue on all the vehicles in town," said Lt. Eddie Ortiz, 48, of the Grant County Sheriff's Department, talking about the unusual Jan. 7 rainstorm. "It was like someone spilled milk on your windshield and it dried up," Ortiz said. … [Read more...]
Manufacturing rain in China
From USA Today: BEIJING — As they prepare to host the Olympics — an event whose very purpose is to push the limits of human beings — the Chinese are trying to do what man never has: Control the weather. With five months to go before the Summer Games come to Beijing, Chinese scientists say they are confident they can keep rain away from the opening ceremony, or summon a storm on … [Read more...]
Digital plants grow from weather data
Lightweeds - a project by Simon Heijdens Uniquely generated digital organisms--plant families--that grow up, move and behave closely depending on actual sunshine, rainfall and wind as measured live outside. On passing human traffic they bend, loose their seeds and pollinate to other walls throughout the space, to make up a constantly evolving wallpaper that reveals the … [Read more...]
Art exhibit addresses weather
The Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination is pleased to present the exhibition, Pathetic Fallacy: Weather and Imagination, which examines diverse ways in which artists and scientists record, capture and analyze the phenomenology of weather. How do actual weather conditions affect the sensibility of an artist? How does the climate influence his or her … [Read more...]
Station Tour no.1
January 22nd, evening. … [Read more...]