More Than Blue Qartulad

[Meri Thilmony]

Allthe colors exist in the sky. It holds all the colors, and none. Your own list of colors of the sky could have as many words as mine, more, a whole different accumulation of hues, the sky will take them all, has space for all of them. They are all correct, and none of them get close, not any of the words. This is a strange thing about the sky.

Stomp the puddle. The sky explodes. One thousand droplets fly, the sky reflected in each one, spinning. Tiny globes of water leap up for a moment, showing the sky to itself, before showering down, smooth, soon to be reabsorbed into the still surface from which they came. Does it seem familiar? A plain and positive thing, sooner felt than understood, which one has either seen or not seen.

In this stillness, we drop through the surface of the sky, we sink into our minds, through the memories, the fantasies, the sticky cupboards of shame, the locked boxes of pain, we keep going, down down down, until we tumble off the cliff into our unremembered inexistence. Clamshell? Blood clot? Amaranth? Lamb? What color is it there? No one has ever told us.

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Since then, Cartier has produced the Crash in limited numbers: a limited run of the London Crash in the 1980s here, an extremely limited edition Paris Crash in platinum in the early 1990s there. Perhaps the largest run was a limited edition of 400 from Cartier Paris, in 1991.

Then, a few years ago, something happened. Kanye West tweeted a photo of his Crash. Kim Kardashian got one for good measure. Cartier re-issued a modern Crash model, exclusive to its London boutique, seemingly generating more buzz for the vintage version, too. Auction results started creeping up. Suddenly, those 1991 Cartier Paris Crash models that had been selling at auction for $30,000 were selling for $100,000. Then $200,000.

But the Crash has always been more than a celebrity accessory or an eye-popping auction result. It has become an icon, both as a unique design that has withstood generations of changing fashions, and as a reflection of the time in which it was made.

Tony Traina is a watch collector and sporadic watch writer, contributing to publications like A Collected Man and Highsnobiety. He also writes a semi-regular newsletter called Rescapement.

It came more than an hour after the Grizzlies survived in Game 2 without All-Star point guard Ja Morant and beat the Lakers, 103-93, at FedEx Forum Wednesday night. The poke came from Memphis wing Dillon Brooks, his stick a flurry of brash, even reckless comments; the bear, LeBron James.

Nope. James and Brooks began jawing with each other, a back-and-forth with which, mercifully, no referee intervened. The Grizzlies led 66-48 at that point and things were in the process of getting much worse for the home team. The Lakers put together a 17-3 run that cut a 20-point gap to just 69-63.

That very nearly happened, too. James, 38 years old and still producing at elite levels, had scored 12 points when the two began yapping. He scored eight points the rest of the third quarter, then eight more in the fourth, finishing with a game-high 28.

Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and is measured by the angle or half-angle of inclination between those two lines.[1][2] Due to foreshortening, nearby objects show a larger parallax than farther objects, so parallax can be used to determine distances.

To measure large distances, such as the distance of a planet or a star from Earth, astronomers use the principle of parallax. Here, the term parallax is the semi-angle of inclination between two sight-lines to the star, as observed when Earth is on opposite sides of the Sun in its orbit.[a] These distances form the lowest rung of what is called "the cosmic distance ladder", the first in a succession of methods by which astronomers determine the distances to celestial objects, serving as a basis for other distance measurements in astronomy forming the higher rungs of the ladder.

Parallax also affects optical instruments such as rifle scopes, binoculars, microscopes, and twin-lens reflex cameras that view objects from slightly different angles. Many animals, along with humans, have two eyes with overlapping visual fields that use parallax to gain depth perception; this process is known as stereopsis. In computer vision the effect is used for computer stereo vision, and there is a device called a parallax rangefinder that uses it to find the range, and in some variations also altitude to a target.

A simple everyday example of parallax can be seen in the dashboards of motor vehicles that use a needle-style mechanical speedometer. When viewed from directly in front, the speed may show exactly 60, but when viewed from the passenger seat, the needle may appear to show a slightly different speed due to the angle of viewing combined with the displacement of the needle from the plane of the numerical dial.

Because the eyes of humans and other animals are in different positions on the head, they present different views simultaneously. This is the basis of stereopsis, the process by which the brain exploits the parallax due to the different views from the eye to gain depth perception and estimate distances to objects.[3]

Animals also use motion parallax, in which the animals (or just the head) move to gain different viewpoints. For example, pigeons (whose eyes do not have overlapping fields of view and thus cannot use stereopsis) bob their heads up and down to see depth.[4]The motion parallax is exploited also in wiggle stereoscopy, computer graphics that provide depth cues through viewpoint-shifting animation rather than through binocular vision.

Parallax arises due to a change in viewpoint occurring due to the motion of the observer, of the observed, or both. What is essential is relative motion. By observing parallax, measuring angles, and using geometry, one can determine distance.

Distance measurement by parallax is a special case of the principle of triangulation, which states that one can solve for all the sides and angles in a network of triangles if, in addition to all the angles in the network, the length of at least one side has been measured. Thus, the careful measurement of the length of one baseline can fix the scale of an entire triangulation network. In parallax, the triangle is extremely long and narrow, and by measuring both its shortest side (the motion of the observer) and the small top angle (always less than 1 arcsecond,[5] leaving the other two close to 90 degrees), the length of the long sides (in practice considered to be equal) can be determined.

On Earth, a coincidence rangefinder or parallax rangefinder can be used to find distance to a target. In surveying, the problem of resection explores angular measurements from a known baseline for determining an unknown point's coordinates.

The most important fundamental distance measurements in astronomy come from trigonometric parallax, as applied in the stellar parallax method. As the Earth orbits the Sun, the position of nearby stars will appear to shift slightly against the more distant background. These shifts are angles in an isosceles triangle, with 2 AU (the distance between the extreme positions of Earth's orbit around the Sun) making the base leg of the triangle and the distance to the star being the long equal-length legs. The amount of shift is quite small, even for the nearest stars, measuring 1 arcsecond for an object at 1 parsec's distance (3.26 light-years), and thereafter decreasing in angular amount as the distance increases. Astronomers usually express distances in units of parsecs (parallax arcseconds); light-years are used in popular media.

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