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...bodes well for Dorje that he is able to make light of turbulence. As the Karmapa, Tibetan Buddhism's third-ranking personage, he has carried the immeasurable burden of his people's expectations, supernatural and worldly, since he was first recognized at age 7 by a religious search party. The delegation was following the directions in a "prediction letter" left in a locket by the previous Karmapa when he died in 1981; it included Dorje's birth year, parents' names (Dondrub and Loga) and a location. According to followers of the Kagyu branch of Buddhism, the child persuaded his nomad...
There's no such thing as breaking news when it comes to us from space. It's not enough for an event to occur; word of it must then travel to Earth across the vast ocean of the cosmos. The dispatch may move at the speed of light, but the journey can still take hours, years, epochs--turning current events into history long before we ever learn of them. Signals from the Cassini spacecraft, currently studying Saturn's moons, take 84 min. to reach us; the supernova whose cataclysmic birth astronomers observed earlier this year was already fading millions...
...boundary breakers, artistic or otherwise. Rob, 39, trained as an advertising photographer; Nick, 38, studied painting and fine arts. They met in school when they were both 16, married a decade later and might have expected a traditional life in traditional fields. But then they started fooling around with light and color...
They began their collaborations modestly: Rob would take photographs and pass them on to Nick, who painted on them. The two liked what they got and soon were working together on what they called light paintings--and what 19th century photographers called photograms--images produced by exposing photographic paper directly to light without a camera getting into the game...
From there, Rob and Nick explored even further. They built interactive light sculptures from neon. They produced a series of photographs in which Rob used a revolving camera to capture impressions of light and color from landscapes around the world. They painted tiny oil abstracts, photographed them and blew them up to 50 times the size of the originals before destroying the paintings. It was the photos that would be the art, after all. The paintings? Merely a means to it. "All the work is about light, color and form," says...