curatorial quest

Chilled Bossa Nova is playing in the other room, my neighbour is doing a jaunty rendition of the McGyver theme song on his piano and I am searching through LibriVox for some entertaining audio books.

Another sleepy Sunday in our apartment is starting to make me feel restless. Hearty breakfast, many cups of coffee and long showers that cover most of the Andrew Lloyd Webber classics from technicolor dreamcoats to the memoirs of an old kitty, Grizabella. 

 This leads me to wonder why Sarah Brightman has joined the Challenger Centre Advisory Council. How will she inspire space exploration? Well, she is essentially becoming the eighth civilian space tourist according to the Telegraph. For now we have the fact that “In 2012, Sarah announced her intention to launch on a future orbital spaceflight mission to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of a 3-person crew on board a Soyuz rocket.” (1)  Not sure if the whole space thing is a publicity stunt or just a very expensive holiday for the soprano, but it is nice to see she has interests.

For more fun in space I would recommend visiting and downloading NASA's Eyes a 3d environment that contains a whole bunch of real NASA mission data and that lets you explore our solar system. Pretty cool stuff, if you ask me. http://eyes.nasa.gov

Is anyone else reminded of net art when they see the, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Any Dream Will Do, video? For some reason it makes my mind jump to the work of net art artist PetraCortright.