Added 1 new A* page:Yesterday I was talking about Changing Form, a piece of public sculpture in Seattle that was part of a series of "gateway" pieces in 1969 that framed views of the city. Another one is Isamu Noguchi's Black Sun in Volunteer Park, which also encloses a view of the Space Needle:
image by Ben Tesch (source)
Even Google Maps has a pretty good "street view" of the sculpture, and you can see how it's placed at the head of a reservoir. Some weeks back I also posted a very processed but still pretty keen photo of the sculpture on my tumblr, which has the Needle neatly seen through the hole in the center of Black Sun. (UPDATE: I've removed that tumblr post, since it was pointed out to me that while I found it on a different site, the photo originally came from the site of photographer Brian Matiash (about midway down that page), which says that his permission is needed to use them, and I've been unable to get in touch with him.)
There's even a local urban legend that the sculpture was the basis for Seattle band Soundgarden's song Black Hole Sun, but I was unable to find a scrap of evidence for it by Googlin'—although I did find some attestations to the contrary—so I'm skeptical of that. And it didn't inspire the creation of this Supermassive Black Hole A* comic, but it did inspire this blog entry, so hey, there's something. Anyway it's not at all bad as far as modern art goes, if you ask me.
(There is, by the way, no chance that the Sun could form a black hole—it would have to be many times more massive than it is in order to explode and collapse into a black hole—so no worries there. : P)
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