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WILD ANIMALS CONNECTING PASSAGE #2, NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE

tommaso fiscaletti December 13, 2021
In animal, plants Tags w, out

WILD ANIMALS CONNECTING PASSAGE #1, NAVAL HILL PLANETARIUM, BLOEMFONTEIN, FREE STATE

tommaso fiscaletti December 13, 2021
In animal, plants Tags w, naval
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WOUTER RENS (FROM “SWART STER OOR DIE KAROO, JAN RABIE 1957). NIC GROBLER, TABLE MOUNTAIN, CAPE TOWN, WESTERN CAPE

tommaso fiscaletti January 17, 2020

"Follow me," said Eva Stellaris quietly, and stepped forward, through the milky wall. "Goodness me!” whispered Jos. "It's going to open just like intelligent glue!"

Photograph inspired by ‘Swart ster oor die Karoo’ (Black star over the Karoo) by Jan Rabie, 1957. In the novel future humans are living inside Table Mountain as it is too cold outside. There are no doors, but mirror like walls that you can walk through - but only if you are calm. Wouter ended up forgetting this and ran angrily towards someone, straight into the wall like you would run into a closed glass door, coming face to face with himself.

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In human, sci-fi Tags w, scifi, mirror

WRECKAGE MUSEUM, TSWAING CRATER, SOSHANGUVE, PRETORIA

tommaso fiscaletti January 17, 2020

The name Tswaing means "place of salt" in Tswana and the crater was also formerly known in English as Pretoria Saltpan crater and in Afrikaans as Soutpankrater.

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In Gauteng Tags w, meteorite

WANDA DIAZ-MERCED

nic@nic.co.za April 5, 2018
Tags video, izikovideo, w, sound

WANDA DIAZ-MERCED, ASTRONOMER, OBSERVATORY, CAPE TOWN

nic@nic.co.za February 12, 2018
In obs Tags installation, w, sound
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WANDA DIAZ-MERCED, ASTRONOMER, SAAO, OBSERVATORY, CAPE TOWN

tommaso fiscaletti December 19, 2017

'Do you want to hear it? It is nothing spectacular. But you’ll get an idea of what happens during the eclipse. Maximum brightness, first contact, second contact… getting close to totality - It doesn’t go completely silent because you will always have some light. We were able to get our sensor to be sensitive enough to detect luminosity. My friends at the University of Harvard were able to achieve minus 1 lux of sensitivity, that means it is a little bit more sensitive than the human eye.'

Wanda was a post doctoral fellow at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town and currently works with the Office of Astronomy for Development(OAD) where she has led the OAD project AstroSense since April 2014. She helped develop sonification methods that allow us to listen to the stars. Her research in this field started after losing her sight as an undergraduate at the University of Puerto Rico. 

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In human, obs Tags w, iziko, chapterone, observatory
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WILHELMINA BOSTAANDER, CARNARVON, NORTHERN CAPE

tommaso fiscaletti December 18, 2017

‘I’ll just tell them it is a thorny tree, it can get stuck into your clothes - you have to pull it out. It goes so deep into your skin that you need to rip it out - it is very dangerous plant. I don’t even want to get close to it and I keep my distance when I water it. It will pierce straight through your clothes into your skin - the thorns are that sharp.’ The same species of plant that was chosen for the photograph of Die Hemelblom (photograph to the right) was found growing in front of Wilhelmina Bostaander’s house in Carnarvon. Photograph inspired by Die Hemelblom, by Jan Rabie, first published 1971. The Hemelblom was sent to the earth by a concerned galactic council to ensure the survival of life on earth.

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In human, carnarvon, sci-fi Tags w, iziko, mailandguardian, carnarvon
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