Have a look at this eye-popping stuff from the Hubble Telescope. It may
take a short while to load, but it’s worth the wait. The combination of the moving images
and the music by Australian Web designer Richard Pree evinces a feeling of
otherworldliness rivaling anything by Stanley Kubrick.
Some people say the images resemble abstract paintings. A friend of mine says they look like
what they are: photos from space. If pressed, she says some make her think of the iceberg
paintings by the 19th-century, German Romantic artist Caspar-David Friedrich — perhaps this one — while others call to mind the
starry sky images of the American painter Charles
Burchfield. Maybe she means his “Moon
Through Young Sunflowers”? (Scroll down and click on image.) To
me the Hubble photos are — in purple prose — an eery peek at the epics of the gods.
