{"id":5964,"date":"2014-10-02T16:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2014-10-11T16:49:24","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T23:49:24","slug":"solomons-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/02\/solomons-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Solomon&#8217;s Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/artintheair\/2014\/10\/02\/ken-solomon-wants-a-piece-of-your-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from artinfo<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Ken Solomon Wants A Piece Of Your Sky<\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/artintheair\/files\/2014\/10\/sky-volnteers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artist Ken Solomon needs your help. Perhaps best known for highly detailed watercolor paintings based on Google image searches or aerial views, among other things, Solomon is crowdsourcing for what will eventually become a 24-hour video. His goal: \u201c7,200 twenty-second videos of the sky, all filmed on the same day at the exact same time across the globe.\u201d According to the project\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kensolomon.com\/sign-in-here17000-volunteers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>, the final result will be an immersive piece that visitors can dip in and out of \u2014 sort of a sedate, weather-focused companion to \u201cThe Clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-58459\"><\/span>\u201cThe idea is a video installation, projected on a ceiling,\u201d Solomon writes. \u201cIt will start at 5AM in Hawaii. Dark sky, will ease to sunset in Alaska. To California, across the States, to Iceland, Europe, sun will be setting, to Eastern bloc, back to night sky in Asia and New Zealand\/Australia. Ideally the video runs 24 hours to correspond with the time of the sky above.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.artinfo.com\/artintheair\/2014\/10\/02\/ken-solomon-wants-a-piece-of-your-sky\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artinfo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artinfo Ken Solomon Wants A Piece Of Your Sky Artist Ken Solomon needs your help. Perhaps best known for highly detailed watercolor paintings based on Google image searches or aerial views, among other things, Solomon is crowdsourcing for what will eventually become a 24-hour video. His goal: \u201c7,200 twenty-second videos of the sky, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}