The First Sun Settings in 2011: Ellis Island

photo credit: David Foell

The First Sun Settings in 2011: Central Park

The Last Setting of the 2010 Sun on the Hudson River

I witnessed the last 2010 sunset in Hudson and it felt like being in a Thomas Cole's painting. The temperature rose and the ice started melting: the majestic Hudson resumed its flow ---which seemed to have stopped for a few days. The low sunlight started reflecting again in the water constellated by myriads of ice island, creating a shimmering kaleidoscope.

Last Settings of the 2010 Sun on the Hudson

One of my favorite sun observation points is the majestic Hudson shore.

The river usually reflects the low sun light in a shimmering kaleidoscope; you can witness two suns, in the water reflecting the sky.

Yesterday evening only one sun reigns sovereign over the stillness of the frozen water; the majestic silence is broken only by the cracking of the ice.

This evening, the last setting sun of 2010, offered another spectacle: today higher temperature make melt the some of the ice of the frozen river. The Hudson resumes his flowing movement, offering to the ocean some of the remaining ice. Colors dance in the sky and the reflecting water: blue, green, orange yellow and white say goodbye to a dark 2010

From Darkness to Light...to a BRIGHT 2011

THE DARKEST DAY OF THE YEAR IS OVER

Calendar | December

DECEMBER CALENDAR

Art, culture and not only...

Events, December 21

Total lunar eclipse, more information

Winter Solstice, Northern Hemisphere 6:38 PM EST, 23:38 UTC (Universal Time)

Human Rights Day, December 10

Vernissages, New York, December10

Carda Burke "The Strangler Fig Strikes Back" at Chashama (window space) 266 W 37 street, 7-9pm

Veronica Pena "Without Name" a performance installation curated by Creighton Michael @ Roger Smith Arts (The Lab), 501 Lexington avenue, 6pm

Lawrence Weiner "Gyroscopically Speaking" @ Marian Goodman Gallery, 24 W 57 street, 6-8pm

Holton Rower "Scraps" @ John McWhinnie @ Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 50 E 64 street, 6-8pm

Vernissages, New York, December 9

Zou Cao "Everlasting Classic" @ Von Lintel Gallery, 520 W 23 street, 6-8pm

"Inside Out" curated by Eli Ping @ Susan Inglett, 522 W 24 street, 6-8pm

"Private Future" curated by Michelle Cline @ Marc Jancou Contemporary, 524 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Nathan Harger @ Hasted Kraeutler, 537 W 24 street, 6-8pm

Olivie Ponce "Extra-Estetica" inaugural exhibition curated by Alison Pierz @ StandPipe Gallery, 150 W 25 street, 6-8pm

Keith Tyson "52 Variables" @ The Pace Gallery, 510 W 25 street, 6-8pm

"Law of the Jungle" curated by Tiago Carneiro da Cunha @ Lehmann Maupin, 540 W 26 street, 6-8pm

"7 Artists 7 Days 7 Hours" @ Big Screen Project (Eventi Hotel Plaza), 851 Sixth avenue, 6-8pm

Matthew Fisher "Lsot Time, Lsot Time, Lsot Time" @ Heskin Contemporary, 443 W 37 street, 6-9pm

Events, New York, December 7

Launch Party, Exhibition A, Gagosian Shop, 988 Madison Avenue, 6-8pm

GreenBuild Design and Policy, Metropolis @ Davis & Warshow, 96 Spring Street, 6-8pm

Events, Hudson, December 4

Winterwalk, Warren Street, 5-8pm

Events, New York, December 3

Neurotechniques, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, 8:45am-7pm

Vernissage, Rome, December 2

Christiane Lohr, Dilatare lo Spazio, Oredaria, 22-24 Via di Reggio Emilia, 18:30-21

Events, Miami , December 1-5

Art|Basel| visitor info: http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ub/

The Art Miami Pavilion|visitor info: http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com/go/id/ub/

Design Miami | visitor info: http://www.designmiami.com/page/visitor-information/

Ink Miami | visitor info: http://www.inkartfair.com/

Pulse | visitor info: http://www.pulse-art.com/miami/index.htm

Red Dot Fair | visitor info: http://reddotfair.com/Miami/visitorinfo.htm

Scope | visitor info: http://www.scope-art.com/Index.php/miami/

Seven | visitor info: http://www.seven-miami.com/

Zoom Art Fair | visitor info: http://www.zoomartfair.com/visitors.html

Events, New York, December 1

Italian Design Street Walking:Robert Wilson, Perchance to Dream @ Center 548, 548 W 22 street, December 1st – December 18, Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10am-6pm

Sean Wrenn "Color Conflagrations" @ Chashama, 20 W 53 street, 7-8pm

Events | NYC, Sun Setting on the Hudson @ Winter Solstice

Hudson River Waterfront @ Winter Solstice 2010 --photos by Daniela Bertol

Events Northern Hemisphere | Moon Geometry during the Total Lunar Eclipse, December 21

The Moon Geometry | photo credit: daniela bertol

Above are a few time lapse photographs of the historic astronomical event ---lunar eclipse at winter solstice has not happened since 1638.
The "moon geometry" from the earth path is recorded from a stationary point. My tripod and camera were placed near the Alma Mater statue at the Columbia University campus, which hosted the event. The very cold weather ---and lack of better photo equipment--- prevented me from taking better resolution images...but quoting de Coubertin "L'important dans la vie ce n'est point le triomphe, mais le combat, l'essentiel ce n'est pas d'avoir vaincu mais de s'être bien battu."