{"id":1299,"date":"2009-06-23T10:58:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T09:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2013-06-25T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:01:26","slug":"ucl-writer-and-artist-in-residence-look-to-the-skies-watch-the-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1299","title":{"rendered":"UCL writer and artist-in-residence look to the skies: watch the video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Extraordinary Clouds (UCL)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sx86M6M19rE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A writer and artist-in-residence at UCL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Environment Institute are holding a joint launch for a new book and work of art \u00e2\u20ac\u201c linked by the theme of clouds.<\/p>\n<p>Writer-in-residence Richard Hamblyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book\u00c2\u00a0<em>Extraordinary Clouds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is a celebration of unusual cloud formations and atmospheric phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Artist-in-residence Martin John Callanan has created\u00c2\u00a0<em>A Planetary Order<\/em>, a terrestrial globe showing clouds around the planet from one single moment in time.<\/p>\n<p>Hamblyn has already written several books on the subject, including\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Invention of Clouds<\/em>, which won the LA Times Book Prize, and a pictoral guide to cloud formations called\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Cloud Book<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Extraordinary Clouds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0grew out of his research for the latter as he amassed a collection of images that did not fit into any standard category, such as the uniform streaks of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcstreet clouds\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and the bulbous \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclenticularis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sometimes mistaken for UFOs.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I had been commissioned to research and write\u00c2\u00a0<em>The Cloud Book<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0(which came out in 2008), using the Met Office\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s amazing photo archive, and I kept coming across weird and wonderful clouds that seemed to defy categorisation, but because<em>The Cloud Book<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0was intended to be a fairly serious pictorial guide to all the clouds listed in the international cloud classification, most of these oddities were left out.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I carried on collecting more and more of them, finding them in photo libraries, trawling the internet, asking photographer friends and acquaintances, and within a year I had amassed several hundred pictures of bizarre and beautiful cloud formations.<em>Extraordinary Clouds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is the result.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"NASA image of clouds over the Pacific\" alt=\"NASA image of clouds over the Pacific\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/news-articles\/0906\/pacificcloud\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most spectacular images in Hamblyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book came from The Cloud Appreciation Society, a 17,000-strong group of cloudspotters.<\/p>\n<p>Callanan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0<em>A Planetary Order<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0examines the fragility and interdependence of the Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s environmental systems.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, a teaching fellow at UCL Slade School of Fine Art, said: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Unlike Richard, who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a fascination with clouds, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve never really considered them before. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been more interested in systems \u00e2\u20ac\u201c systems that define how we live our lives. The idea behind the cloud globe is to show and highlight the fragility of the environmental systems that operate in the world.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"A Planetary Order\" alt=\"A Planetary Order\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/news\/news-articles\/0906\/globe\" width=\"188\" height=\"188\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\nCallanan then turned the raw data into a 3D computer model with the help of the UCL Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art.<\/p>\n<p>It was printed at the Digital Manufacturing Centre at the UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Digital Manufacturing Centre creates architectural models for students, researchers and commercial clients, but this is the largest object they have ever created and it took two days just to manufacture,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Callanan.<\/p>\n<p>The launch party for\u00c2\u00a0<em>Extraordinary Clouds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0<em>A Planetary Order<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0will take place on 30 June in the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s main quadrangle at Gower Street.<\/p>\n<p><em>Extraordinary Clouds<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0is available from all good bookshops and\u00c2\u00a0<em>A Planetary Order<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0will go on display at UCL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Pearson Building later this summer.<\/p>\n<p>UCL context<br \/>\nThe Environment Institute acts as a focus for interdisciplinary research on the environment at UCL. It exists to improve links between the UCL research community, policymakers and private sector interests. It aims to identify the environmental concerns that will drive future policy agendas, and to contribute the science required to address them.\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/deimos3.apple.com\/WebObjects\/Core.woa\/Browse\/ucl.ac.uk.2249918823\">Download the video from iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A writer and artist-in-residence at UCL\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Environment Institute are holding a joint launch for a new book and work of art \u00e2\u20ac\u201c linked by the theme of clouds. Writer-in-residence Richard Hamblyn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book\u00c2\u00a0Extraordinary Clouds\u00c2\u00a0is a celebration of unusual cloud formations and atmospheric phenomena. 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