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Once in a Super Blue Moon

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Staying at home on 31st January without anything to do? Why not leave your home to catch this once in a lifetime phenomenon? Source: Science Centre Singapore According to Science Centre Singapore, singaporeans will be able to catch sight of a incredibly rare event known as the "super blue total lunar eclipse". This occurs when a supermoon, lunar eclipse and a blue moon all occurs at once, thus giving its name. A supermoon occurs when the full moon is at its closest to Earth. A lunar eclipse is when a full moon hids behind Earth's shadow and a blue moon only occurs when it is the second full moon of the calendar month. Source: Science Centre Singapore This is an extremely rare event and is likely that anyone alive have not seen it live before, since the last time it happened was back in 1866, almost 152 years ago. This is a treat for all stargazers and astronomy enthusiasts. No special equipment is needed unlike the solar eclipse where a special solar viewi...

Yayoi Kusuma: Princess of Polka Dots - Heart of a Rainbow Art Exhibition

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Yayoi Kusuma: Heart of a Rainbow Art Exhibition Who is Yayoi Kusuma? Throughout her career she has worked in a wide variety of media but her heart remains with pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements which reflects works inspired by  Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, and George Segal. Kusama began to experience vivid hallucinations described as "flashes of light, auras, or dense fields of dots". These hallucinations also involved flowers speaking to her and the patterns in fabric that she stared at coming to life, multiplying, and engulfing or expunging her. Through this process she has carried into her artistic career and calls "self-obliteration", which is artistically brought to us in Argentinian director NOWNEss's video below.  What to expect at her Heart of a Rainbow Exhibition? Life is the Heart of a Rainbow opens at the National Gallery Singapore in June 2017. Visitors will be wowed by her famous work - The Inf...