Tue. 03/29 - Koons' Moons

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Artist Jeff Koons’ next sculpture installation? On the moon. Plus, it’s not just you. Seasonal allergies really are worse this year, and the climate emergency is to blame. And, the Northern Lights might be visible Wednesday night in parts of the northern US and Canada, with bonus rockets being blasted into them by NASA. Sponsors: The Jordan Harbinger Show, jordanharbinger.com/start DeVry University, Learn more at DeVry.edu/Engineering Links: Artist Jeff Koons aims to send sculptures to the Moon on commercial lunar lander (The Verge) As Part of His NFT Debut, Jeff Koons Will Launch Sculptures Into Space and Place Them Permanently on the Moon (ArtNet) There Is a Sculpture on the Moon Commemorating Fallen Astronauts (Smithsonian Magazine) Various Artists, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, David Novros, Forrest Myers, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain. The Moon Museum. 1969 (Museum of Modern Art) Climate change is making pollen season even worse across the country (Washington Post) Naked-Eye Northern Lights May Be Visible From The U.S. This Week As Solar Flares Head Our Way (Forbes) 3-day-forecast (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) NASA set to launch 2 rockets into the northern lights (Space.com) The Northern Lights Over Atlanta, Michigan (Great Lakes Myth Society, Bandcamp) Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	It's Tuesday, March 29th, 2022. I'm Jackson Bird today. Artist Jeff Coons' next sculpture installation
0:44.2	on the moon. Plus, it's not just you. Seasonal allergies really are worse this year. And the climate
0:52.1	emergency is to blame. And the Northern Lights might be
0:56.2	visible Wednesday night in parts of the Northern U.S. and Canada, with bonus rockets being blasted
1:02.3	into them by NASA. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. So last night I was scrolling
1:10.4	through Reddit and saw a video of Captain Chris Hadfield during his tenure at NASA's Aquarius underwater lab,
1:17.3	demonstrating what happens when you try to open a can of soda at the bottom of the ocean.
1:22.0	This led to people, of course, sharing Hadfield's incredible 2013 music video of David Bowie's space oddity that he filmed
1:30.0	on board the International Space Station. And incredibly, there were some people in the thread
1:34.8	who had never heard of the video, which I guess is actually understandable, especially if you
1:39.7	were like eight years old in 2013. It was kind of a while ago at this point. And it was kind of a beautiful
1:45.6	moment, you know, watching people experience the music video for the first time. And given that it was
1:50.7	such an unprecedented, awe-inspiring video, the newbies had a lot of questions. And being that
1:56.8	it's Reddit, there were a couple of jokers who said that Chris Hadfield was just a really
2:01.5	talented guitarist who so badly wanted to make a music video in space for this particular song
2:06.9	that he spent years training as a pilot and astronaut just so he could one day film the song
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