Icy Empty Orbiting Space.

Let’s start with this: I’m not a twitterer.  Just wanted to clear the air.

That said, this Twitter account is awesome. Why? Because this Twitterer is not making monumental claims about how long they are waiting in line, or making “your mom” jokes while also telling the world about his new diet. This Twitterer is trying to tell you how incredible it is that a man (or two) will step foot on the moon in a few short days. The actual launch of Apollo 11 was July 16, 1969, so there are going to be a few more weeks of buildup before this particular Twitter feed gets extremely interesting. Even so, the current updates concerning relevant news and testing and public opinion of that time are really great. My amount of knowledge of Apollo 11 is that the ship took off, Buzz and Neil walked on it, took back some rocks and landed in the ocean and were quarantined. But it’s expanding by keeping up with this Twitter.

And Space, it’s cold.  Ice cold.  Super cold.  Really cold.  Like a good cocktail.  And space isn’t watered down.  The last ‘link’ explanation got way long so the rest of this post will be shortened.

“It was an audibly delicious cocktail, I said.”

Here in Chicago, IL there’s a bar with a new gimmick: seven types of ice.  It’s really not a gimmick though, ices that melt slower to keep your drink from getting watered down.  Ices that don’t make the drink too cold so that you don’t just go numb from the temperature but instead go numb from the alcohol.  It’s a place called The Violet Hour.  I haven’t been there yet, but after reading this article in The Atlantic I’m amping up to go try it out.

Away from the chills and back to space, or at least orbits.  Can photography is a page of some incredible pinhole photography.  Instead of exposures of a few minutes or hours, these are weeks and months of exposure times showing the changing path the sun takes as seasons change.