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“To create, one must first question everything.”

“To create, one must first question everything.” - Eileen Gray

How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior explores the collaborations, materials, and processes that have shaped the modernist interior, with a focus on specific spaces from the 1920s to the 1950s and is on view now.

[Installation view of How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 1, 2016-April 23, 2017. © 2016 The Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Martin Seck]

These apparently insignificant moments, the ones we easily forget, the ones that rarely leave a trace in our memory, these are the moments of pure bliss. Happiness truly lies in simplicity, there's this unexplainable beauty in ordinary.

Feeling grateful for the gift of his company

The unreachable notion of beauty

Take action, no matter how frightened you are.

-stutz

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Our New Satellite to Study the Edge of Space

We’re about to launch a new satellite called ICON — the Ionospheric Connection Explorer — to study our planet’s boundary to space.

The overlap between Earth’s upper atmosphere and outer space is complicated and constantly changing. It’s made up of a mix of neutral gas (like the air we breathe) and charged particles, where negatively charged electrons have separated from positively charged ions. This charged particle soup reacts uniquely to the changing electric and magnetic fields in near-Earth space, while weather conditions from here on Earth can also travel upwards and influence this region. This makes Earth’s interface to space a dynamic, hard-to-predict region of the atmosphere.

Understanding what causes the changes in this region and how to predict them isn’t just a matter of curiosity. Earth’s boundary to space is home to many of our Earth-orbiting satellites, and it also plays a role in transmitting signals for communications and navigation systems. Unpredictable changes here can garble those signals and even shorten the lifetime of satellites.

ICON, launching on Nov. 7, will study this region with a unique combination of instruments. Orbiting about 360 miles above Earth, ICON will use its cameras to measure winds near the upper edge of Earth’s boundary to space and track atmospheric composition and temperature by studying a phenomenon called airglow. ICON also carries an instrument that will capture and measure the particles directly around the spacecraft, or in situ. 

ICON is launching aboard a Northrop Grumman Pegasus XL rocket. On launch day, the Pegasus XL is carried out over the ocean by Northrop Grumman’s L-1011 Stargazer aircraft, which takes off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. About 50 miles off the coast of Florida, the Pegasus XL drops from the plane and free-falls for about five seconds before igniting and carrying ICON into low-Earth orbit.

NASA TV coverage of the launch starts at 2:45 a.m. EST on Nov. 7 at nasa.gov/live. You can also follow along with the mission on Twitter, Facebook or at nasa.gov/icon.

The truth is all around you, plain to behold. The night is dark and full of terrors, the day bright and beautiful and full of hope. One is black, the other white. There is ice and there is fire. Hate and love. Bitter and sweet. Male and female. Pain and pleasure. Winter and summer. Evil and good. Death and life. Everywhere, opposites.

SOBRE LOS FINALES

Hoy mi amanecer es solitario. En lo que había una vida entrelazada, hoy queda solo vacío. Su existencia se esfuma de mis horas y mi mente lucha con fuerza para mantenerse en pie, porque aunque parezca extraña, esa disrupcion abrupta de una realidad, la vida sigue. El cielo no es otro, si no el de todos los días, el tráfico, el viento permanecen intactos, como cualquier otro día. Las horas siguen sin inmutarse, la gente de siempre, las rutinas, todo sigue, nada cambia. Una punzada leve es el único testigo de los años que ya fueron, la nostalgia tan paralizante de los buenos días que ya no vendrán más. Memorias recreadas una y otra vez, en la imperfeccion de una mente humana que inventa para no olvidar.

Volverse un extraño, recordar la insignificancia de la humanidad en sí, los efímeros pasos en la vida de otros. No somos más que una suave brisa, una sombra del tiempo de quienes más nos amaron.

Recordar las pequeñas nimiedades, que eran sin saber los días más felices. Permanecer en silencio sin la necesidad de llenar el vacío con alguna conversación superflua, cantar al unísono mientras se diluyen los minutos en el tráfico de la ciudad, descansar en Paz y felicidad absoluta. Esos son las verdaderas alegrias.

Hoy se esfuma la posibilidad de futuros infinitos, toda la música, la vida, los días que ya nunca serán. No hay más anhelos, ni esfuerzos. Hoy hacemos tregua con el deseo, levantamos en alto la bandera blanca, para decir que nos rendimos. Ni esta ni ninguna guerra es infinita. Sólo el fin es seguro y hoy nos abraza con fuerza.