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Laura E.P. Rocchio
@laura-rocchio.bsky.social
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geographer, science writer, designer; always curious

co-author: Landsat's Enduring Legacy: Pioneering Global Land Observation from Space
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The Last Bookstore in DTLA.

Used books, book installation art, and stairs?
Yes, please!
Walking up to the second level of The Last Bookstore in April 2025.
April 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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How did the idea for James Bridle's Laaaaaaandsat (which was featured in MoMA's 2016 "Aerial Imagery in Print, 1860 to Today" exhibit) come about?

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Artist and writer James Bridle. Photo credit: Steve Forest
April 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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#DYK? In 1980, artist Tom Van Sant created the world’s largest manmade image with the help of Landsat 3... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-bi...
Artist Tom Van Sant used a series of 2′ x 2′ mirrors spread across the Mojave Desert to create a 1.5-mile-wide eye on a Landsat 3 image acquired on June 11, 1980.
April 25, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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Brian, as always, was a good-sport and let me use this whimsical graphic in the story. My daughter drew the integrating sphere for me, I added a flat shade of green for the sphere's inside and a headshot of Brian.
A hand-drawn integrating sphere with a green circle in the middle and a photograph of calibration scientist Brian Markham.
April 25, 2025 at 5:53 AM