Desma 9 Week 9 Space + Art

I thought that this lecture was the perfect way to touch a little bit on everything we have learned about thus far in class. Space contains a little bit of everything and there is a lot of art within it. First off, I first feel like the aesthetic value of what we send into space is very interesting. For instance, Sputnik was designed to be perfectly polished so that everybody could see it in space, art came into a huge play with the Soviets trying to get into space.

Sputnik

Another huge piece of art that we have because of space that I personally think is really cool are all of the old retro drawings of rocket ships. People had some crazy ideas of what space crafts were going to look like and we have made a lot of cool consumer items out of them since.

Retro idea of what a space craft would look like

The third, and most important artistic value we got from entering space is movies and tv shows. Just to name some, E.T., 2001: A space odyssey, Star Wars, and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Multiple generations have been raised off of TV shows, movies, and books like this. It has had a colossal effect to the people of the United States and I'm glad it got brought up in this class because it has allowed to to think a lot more in depth about the Art values involved with space travel.

Star Wars - taking place in space

And to sum up the last blog of this quarter, my favorite quote of the quarter so far: "Knowledge - technology and the recording of it, art and the expression of it - is the most important gift to our future and to our heritage. We have come far and have far to go." - B.E. Johnson

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