Topic: The coevolution of light, life, and color on Earth

[Jack Johnson]

Yes, you read that right. Worth a listen:

http://longnow.org/seminars/02012/nov/28/enchanted-sun-coevolution-light-life-and-color-earth/

Please excuse the hippies.

If you'd rather just look at pictures of random stuff, some fun shots of the Svalbard Seed Vault from last "summer" year:

http://blog.longnow.org/02011/07/25/svalbard/

[LT]

Please excuse the hippies.

nothing wrong with a few Hippies, now and then. I'm big James Lovelock fan, so the Gaia reference has me interested already.  thanks for the link Jack.

[Francois]

Somehow, the title made me think about something a team of astronomers did a few years ago. They wondered what color was the universe?
So, they compiled hundreds if not thousands of astronomical pictures only to find out that the universe is mostly...brown.
How disappointing.

[Jack Johnson]

I certainly don't mind the hippies, either.

I'm a huge Long Now fan, addicted to the seminar series since it started, hoping someday to go on a pilgrimage (camera in hand, of course) to Jeff Bezo's clock when it's finished and eventually the Foundation's clock if it's built before I'm 70.

I was combing my brain for other seminars that might interest some Filmwasters. I'm surprised I haven't posted this one already:

Edward Burtynsky: The 10,000-year Gallery

More on carbon transfer printing:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_print
• http://www.colorcarbonprint.com/
• http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/carbon-carbro/carbon-print-process
• http://www.carbonartphotography.com/about.html

Clay Shirky: Making Digital Durable

More on digital archiving: (makes you love film all the more)

• http://blog.longnow.org/02008/06/24/preserving-your-personal-digital-archives/
• http://longnow.org/events/01998/feb/08/time-and-bits/

...and just for Leon:

Tim Flannery: Here on Earth

...though for general fun I highly recommend:

Saul Griffith: Climate Change Recalculated
Dmitry Orlov: Social Collapse Best Practices
Nils Gilman: Deviant Globalization