Powehi means “the adorned fathomless dark creation” or “embellished dark
source of unending creation” and comes from the Kumulipo, an 18th
century Hawaiian creation chant. Po is a profound dark source of
unending creation, while wehi, meaning honoured with embellishments, is
one of the chant’s descriptions of po, the newspaper reported.
Cartography… The Ocean is a Universe/The Universe is an Ocean, Vellum, acrylic paint, 22 x 28 in., framed, 2019 at The Great Highway Gallery in San Francisco through February 23.
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Advertisement with flying saucer, Americas Independent electric light and power companies build for your new living, 1950s. Via John Grimwade
A green sun in black space. Yaggy’s Geographical Study Comprising Physical, Political, Geological, and Astronomical Geography. 1887. Detail. David Rumsey Map Collection.
“In the 1970′s the Princeton physicist Gerard O’Neill with the help of NASA Ames Research Center and Stanford University held a series of space colony summer studies which explored the possibilities of humans living in giant orbiting spaceships. Colonies housing about 10,000 people were designed and a number of artistic renderings of the concepts were made.”
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