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Opening reception for Michael Light - Full Moon - The Apollo Missions

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11 – the first landing on the Moon - Joseph Bellows Gallery is pleased to present FULL MOON: The Apollo Missions. The exhibition will feature photographs from Michael Light's book FULL MOON and will be on view from October 17th – December 5th, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 17th (5-8 pm).

From 1963 – 1972 NASA's Apollo program landed six missions on the moon and yielded a wealth of scientific data as well as 32,000 photographs. From 1995-2000, photographer Michael Light worked with NASA's archives to revisit and reexamine these photographs. Light's project culminated in a book and museum exhibition entitled FULL MOON. The book was published in six languages in 1999 (the American by Knopf, New York), and the museum exhibition opened concurrently that summer at London's Hayward Gallery and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The photographs from that show are now on permanent display at the American Museum of Natural History's Rose Center for Earth and Space in Manhattan. In the years since, FULL MOON has come to be considered the definitive visual statement on the Apollo photographic archive.

As a landscape photographer Michael Light is not only interested in the physical aspects of a place but also spaces where humans seem dwarfed by their natural surroundings, places where they confront powerful natural forces. To him the Moon was perfect subject. For FULL MOON, Light chose 129 of the 32,000 images from NASA's archives and wove them into a narrative that begins with launch and is followed by a walk in space, an orbit of the Moon, lunar landing and exploration, and a return to Earth. He focused on images that had not been seen before and aimed to create the effect of the viewer being in space by including views looking out the spacecrafts' windows and close-ups of the astronauts. He also shows us the sublime grandeur of the Moon itself. Close-up images show its surface details and textures while images shot from above reveal its vastness and mass. Light's selection and arrangement of these images lead the viewer on a thrilling journey to the Moon, and his project is imbued with the same sense of adventure and discovery inherent in the Apollo missions themselves.

The photographs in the exhibition are all made using latest in direct-digital photographic printing processes from Light's drum scans of NASA masters. Light scanned at beyond-film grain resolution to capture every bit of information in the masters, and together with the subtlety allowed by digital image processing, these prints offer unprecedented clarity, scale and precision. There is nothing like them available through any channel, including NASA.

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The 2009 WFMU Fundraising Marathon

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Prepare your spacecraft and help us celebrate this favorite Lunar festival by coming dressed up
as your favorite interplanetary creature for Halloween.

We'll be bobbing for weightless apples and attempt to catch all the loose
candy with butterfly nets, before it sails off into weightless space!

Treats galore!

A few tricks thrown in for good measure!

Awards will be given for the best earthling costume!

Don't be square...be there!

Our usual spot in the crater with a host of alien beings from various solar systems and food that hasn't been seen by earthlings or Nasa food specialists.

Got a better way to spend your time?

Bring a friend! (Aliens welcome!)

PS: Anyone seen the can opener?

This group operates FREE since the Cosmic Space War Peace Treaty was signed.

Thank our fearless missing friend ED, who had the foresight to hide all the group gear in a pod at the base of Lunar Lake when the invasion occurred. Thanks Ed!
PS: If anyone happens to see Ed, please tell the organizers or the Interplanetary Police.

Renee has promised to bring Jello shooters for everyone.
Thanks Renee!
Mimi has been working on her weightless Flan from a recipe handed down in the family.

For more information, see http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html

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Meet at the Big Crater and tee off at the Point Of Conception.

Make sure you track your balls with the space sensors or they will
head off towards Mars.

Dinner afterwards at The Asteroid Restaurant!

Last year we had an out-of-this-world time!

Polish up your clubs and get the spacecraft in working order.

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