Monday, January 26, 2009

January 23 - voting from space

I was websurfing issues about space when I came across a site about the International space station. There's a video by the guys currently in residence up there explaining that some years ago a process was put in place for off-world astronauts to be able to cast a vote in the elections taking place in their absence. It was obviously put together to encourage US citizens to vote because they ended with the line "If we can vote from up here, you can too."

Speaking of space, last year I was working on an altered book about art when I came across an explanation about the use of space in painting. I decided to reverse the idea and added an illustration of an astronaut painting in space. I thought it was kinda cute.


Here's the page I did-

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