Million Vs. Billion
(Ex) Youtuber Tom Scott helps visualize the massive difference between a million and a billion. This video is a few years old, but does the best job of this that I’ve seen yet. You may want to fast forward.
(Ex) Youtuber Tom Scott helps visualize the massive difference between a million and a billion. This video is a few years old, but does the best job of this that I’ve seen yet. You may want to fast forward.
This simple carving by Montréal-based Chloé Desjardins caught my eye by feeling incredibly light despite being made of marble.
In artist Jun Ong’s luminous installations, rays of light pierce through concrete, stone, and steel. In his ongoing Stars series features LED strips that intersect with the human-built environment in monumental, illuminated geometries.
Important to note, the above piece is on a former Buddhist temple, hence the iconography.
Though aesthetically very different, I also see echoes in this work of Gordon Matta-Clark‘s geometric works like Conical Intersect, pictured below. Both combine existing architecture with larger geometric shapes.